The Seven Messengers

Hélèna Pichon : Administratration - phone. : +33(0)6 74 61 94 19 - [email protected]
Maurice Salaün : Booking - phone : +33(0)6 78 92 93 78 - [email protected]
Gérald Chagnard : Artistic - phone : +33(0)6 41 68 65 45 - [email protected]
The Seven Messengers
Gérald Chagnard / Patrick Vaillant Duet
A musical project based on
Dino Buzzati’s Novel
produced by
L’Arbre Canapas (Bourg-en-Bresse) & Mandopolis (Nice)
Contact
Maison des Associations - 2 bld Joliot Curie - 01000 Bourg-en-Bresse
Siret : 453 691 578 00034 - licence n° 2-1037266 - licence n° 3-1037267 - APE : 9001Z
[email protected] - www.arbre-canapas.com
The Seven Messengers
Gérald Chagnard & Patrick Vaillant
THE NOVEL
The Seven Messengers was written by the Italian author Dino Buzatti and first
published in France in 1969.
Extract:
“Since I left to explore my father’s kingdom, I go farest from the city and the news are
becoming more and more rare. When I undertook that journaey, I was barely thirty and
time flew over an ininterrupted route: exactly height years, six months and half a month.
At the time of departure, I thought I could easily reach the kingdom’s border in some
weeks. Actually I only met new inhabitants, new villages and new counties.
Everywhere I met people who speaks my native tongue and told me to be my vassals.”
As a count or a myth, “The Seven Messengers” is open to be read, analyzed or understood
in many ways : narrative, rythmic, mathematical, philosophical or symbolical.
We seeked out of the text notions and questions which led us on research an
musical compositions :
the quest – the unknown, the knwoledge
the movement, pertpetual, opposite, constant
directions - precice and opposite
memories – immediate and longing
scales – time and space
The Seven Messengers Gérald Chagnard & Patrick Vaillant
MUSICS
After a year of meeting, improvisation and composition work, the duet
Chagnard-Vaillant is now ready to share its musical improvements upon the up-todate mandolin (electrified, upgraded, powerful) and the possible mandolin (based on
square work – as the french oulipo).
This
Mandolin
duet
inspired by Buzzatti’s novel
plays
improvisations
with
computing
sound machines , wild
instruments
industry
(PVC clarinet and homemade flute) and digital
instrument
industry
(acoustic and electric
mandolin,
barytone
saxophone) and creates a
suite.
Music is led by the mathematical structure of the novel and the narrative text itself
as well.
The composition contains algorithms.
The musicians playing gesture and
improvisations lead the remote responding
computing machine in order to give
precedence to performance and intention to
create a close dialog between the text and
music.
The musical and visual world created
here mixes the usual and unexpected, rigor
and elasticity and develops its own story,
echoing to the novel’s one.
Gérald Chagnard & Patrick Vaillant
The Seven Messengers
ON STAGE
The performance is about an hour long. To go further on his work, Gérald
Chagnard settled new Usine software patches which bring more random in playing
and avoid to stay in a loop effect or square musical structures. It allows a control on
musical color and sound expression which is on a 4 multi-channels PA displayed.
The text itself and the musician gesture are to be screened through a special Isadora
software video display. Videos are remoted and generated by live sounds and
movements (as playing mediator or body movements).
The text is to be read as poetry and as a mathematical sequence contained in the
novel when the Seven Messengers go back and forth.
.
note: the pictures shown here are snapshots from the performed videos
LINE-UP
Compositions & improvisations : Patrick Vaillant & Gérald Chagnard
with :
Patrick Vaillant
electric mandoline
Gérald Chagnard
acoustic mandoline, barytone saxophone, wild intruments
The Seven Messengers Gérald Chagnard & Patrick Vaillant
SCHEDULE
March 2015 to January 201 : 4 rehearsal sessions of 4 days each in Nice et Bourg-enBresse - improvisations & compositions.
May 2016 : residences in Nice & Ambronay, complete setting of the musical programme
Saturday may 28th 2016 – 5PM: premiere at Ambronay (01)
July 2016: Mandopolis Festival
November 21st to 24 2016: Stage setting ( light, sound & video)
at Astrée Theatrer Villeurbanne (69) & concert (Thusday 24) in partnership with the
Guitar Festival Villeurbanne.
photos by Bertrand Pichène
Gérald Chagnard & Patrick Vaillant
The Seven Messengers
PATRICK VAILLANT mandolinist
He is a major leader of traditionnal musics in his county. He works openly as
instrumentist and composer trough various influences : singing, improvised musics,
mediterranean musics, ballet, play, young audience. His knowledge in traditionnal
and improvied musics, his performance skills and composition originality led him to
an international carrer in jazz, classical and world music.
As leader of many groups he is also asked to compose and arrange, to participate to
masterclasses and jurys.
He founded the Melonious Quartet, the first modern mandolin quartet in France.
Through the « Mandolin LIberation Front » he developped the concert of «
altermandolin » and the Oumanpo (Ouvroir the Mandoline Potentielle).
He lives in Nice and is the director
of The Mandopolis Group and the
Mandopolis festival.
Her performed with Riccardo Tesi,
Jan-Maria Carlotti, Michel Marre,
Daniel Malavergne, Gianluigi
Trovesi, Barre Phillips, Gabriele
Mirabassi, Bijan Chemirani, Stelios
Petrakis, Denis Fournier, Bernard
Santacruz, Manu Théron, Marco
Cesar, Alain Blesing, Gérard
Pansanel, Claude Barthélémy,
Michel Benita, Senem Diyici,
Jacky Molard, Alain Gibert, Kepa
Junkera, Nando Citarella, Frédéric
Cavallin...
Discography
La mer au loin Palomar (Vaillant, Malavergne, Cavallin) CD FLM 003 (2016)
Chanson & danse Melonious Quartet CD FLM 002 (2013)
Au Cabanon Chin Nana Poun CD BUDA Musique 860190 (2010)
La Miugrana Melonious Quartet CD FLM 001 (2008)
Bastian Contrari Patrick Vaillant CD Modal MPJ111043 (2007)
Chin Nana Poun Vaillant, Théron, Malavergne CD Daqui 332031(2007)
En Forme De Poire ( a mandolin tribute to Erik Satie) Melonious Quartet CD Oriente 04051 (2004)
1-0 (uno a zero) Mirabassi, Vaillant, Godard, Biondini CD Egea SCA088 (2001)
Au Sud de la Mandoline Melonious Quartet CD L’empreinte Digitale ED 13086 (98)
Colline (Vaillant, Tesi, Trovesi, Avenel, Allouche) CD Silex-Auvidis Y225048 (94) prix Académie
Ch.Cros et discothèque idéale Télérama
Anita Anita (Vaillant, Tesi, Carlotti, Craighead) CD Silex-Auvidis Y225037 (94/88) Choc de la
musique du Monde de la musique
Veranda (Vaillant, Tesi, Marre, Malavergne, Rivera) CD Silex-Auvidis Y225002 (91)
The Seven Messengers Gérald Chagnard & Patrick Vaillant
GERALD CHAGNARD : musician (saxophone, mandoline, objects),
composer, digital instrument maker.
He founded the collective Arbre Canapas with Sylvain Nallet.
Since about fifteen years, he has been seen performing big band with la Grande
Déformation (Ishtar collective), the streetband l’ Elefanfare, the Hékla jazz quartet...
He also performed with René Lussier, Claude Tchamitchian, Guillaume Orti, Patrick
Vaillant, Djiguyia ( Burkina Faso )... He has a D.U.M.I. degree.
He founded in 2003 the “ Corde à Vent “ duet with Sylvain Nallet and performed with
common sound resonators trensformed in music instruments they mix with their usuel
instrumenst (clarinet, saxophone,
mandoline, voice).
The first two sets “Prises de Bec”&
“Derrière les bruissons” were
performed more than 500 time
through France : JMF tours, culture
houses, jazz festivals, theatres,
schools...
They created some performances
with children (Scène Nationale
de l’Allan in 2008) where they
conceived a sound exhibition
“Musiques Bruissonnières” from
they specific instruments they
created during the shows.
Since 2010 he develops with
“Orchestronique” some project
around new digital instrument
industry (gamepad diversion, dancepad, Kinect camera devices) and explores new
soundscapes (during foSolo performances, residences, workshops with amateurs
musicians. He plays mandoline on “Trio Gaspard” (compositions by Lionel Rolland)
and continues his musical researches with Patrick Vaillant (electric mandoline) and
with the project “Carrés Sons”, a new release by Corde à Vent.
Discography
1998 Orchestre de cancres / La Grande Déformation - (Ishtar)
2002 Fleur de Sable - Fil de l’air Vol. 3 - ffff Telerama – Coup de Coeur Ch. CROS
(Les Temps Chauds –L’Autre Distribution)
2004 La folle course folle / L’éléfanfare - (L’Arbre Canapas)
2005 Clapotis – Fil de l’air Vol. 5 - avec L’éléfanfare
Coup de Coeur Ch. CROS (Les Temps Chauds – distribue par L’Autre Distribution)
2005 Mino 2005 / avec La Corde a Vent - sélection jeune public JMF-ADAMI
2005 Prises de bec / La Corde a Vent - (L’Arbre Canapas – distribué par DJP)
Sélection Talent ADAMI Jeune Public
2007 The Rainbow Africa – Fil de l’Air Vol. 6 – avec L’éléfanfare
(L’Estuaire – distribue par L’Autre Distribution)
2008 Musiques de traverses / L’Arbre Canapas
2010 Derrière les bruissons / L’Arbre Canapas – (distribué par DJP)
2011 TTTW / L’Arbre Canapas
2014 Variations sur les Variations Goldberg / L’Arbre Canapas
L’Arbre Canapas
Formed in 2004, L’Arbre Canapas (Canapas Tree, from Henri Michaux novel Ailleurs) is a
collective of Jazz musicians creating music, and leading education and community programs
together. Our music is a crossover inspired by jazz, world music and new music.
A musician gathering
Each band develops a unique relationship with music
communities. L’éléfanfare is an outdoor orchestra for everyone,
which turns streets and common places into surprising concert
hall. La Corde à Vent creates performances for young people.
It’s surprising and creative music blends traditional musical
instruments with inventions out of everyday objects (wild lute).
L’effet de Foehn offers to everyone, musical enlightened or
not, young and adult audiences, a contemporary composition
based on musical and visual landscapes. The quartet La Table
de Mendeleïev offers adventurous and explosive compositions,
shaking up Bunsen burners. Nadja is a bass clarinet sextet
performing André Breton’s fantasy. TTTW is a new and
original re-reading of the Who’s compositions by six multiinstrumentalist musicians.
L’Arbre Canapas is an independent association. It provides
administrative and public relation support for music creations
and broadcastings (concert planning, record production,
communication tools…) as well as education and community
programs for each project.
L’Arbre Canapas is a Jazz(s)ra member,
«platform of action and reflexion» managed by cultural jazz members from the
Rhône-Alpes : artists and collectives of artists, education structures, venues and concert hall, production
and edition structures.
L’Arbre Canapas is supported by the General Council of Ain,
The Regional Council of Rhône-Alpes, the DRAC (Ministry of
Culture), the ADAMI and the SPEDIDAM.
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Contact us
Hélèna Pichon: Manager - phone: +33(0)6 74 61 94 19 - [email protected]
Maurice Salaün: Booking - phone: +33(0)6 78 92 93 78 - [email protected]
Gérald Chagnard: Artistic direction - phone: +33(0)6 41 68 65 45 - [email protected]
[email protected] - www.arbre-canapas.com
Maison des Associations - 2 bld Joliot Curie - 01000 Bourg-en-Bresse- France
Siret : 453 691 578 00034 - licence n° 2-1037266 - licence n° 3-1037267 - APE : 9001Z