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The Opening of the Third Semaine du Son at IRCAM
The Semaine du Son (Week of Sound) will take place from the 10th through the 14th of
January; five days bursting with conferences, concerts and exhibitions accessible to all.
IRCAM will open the event with a day dedicated to sound design with guest Raymond
Murray Schafer, pioneer of sound ecology. In addition to installations in public gardens,
the sound identity of SNCF train stations or Parisian airports, and creations by the École
Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle, other events will be open to the public.
The Semaine du Son will continue at the Cité de la Musique, at the Palais de la
Découverte, at Radio France, at the Le Balzac movie theater, and for the first time, it will
also take place outside of Paris in the cities of Chalon-sur-Saône, Nantes, Grenoble, La
Rochelle, Albi and Toulouse.
Tuesday, January 10 at IRCAM
concerts | on tour | publications | conferences | courses
First Date for the Repertory Workshop
The composer Gérard Grisey will open the IRCAM Repertory Workshop season that presents
works from the IRCAM repertory. The piece Prologue will open a cycle of 6 pieces, Espaces
acoustiques that go from solo viola to a full orchestra. The version presented here includes
direct electronics using resonators and is reserved for a unique performance of the piece. The
second date in February will honor the composer Franck Bedrossian and his piece
Transmission that premiered during Resonances in 2002. This piece represents the completion
of the composer's participation in the 2001-2002 Composition and Computer Music Cursus
program at IRCAM.
Prologue for viola and electronics by Gérard Grisey, Wednesday, January 18, from 12:30pm
to 1:30pm, Centre Pompidou
Transmission for fagott and electronics by Franck Bedrossian, Wednesday, February 22,
from 12:30pm to 1:30pm, Centre Pompidou
Matière-son
Furrer, Gervasoni, Cattaneo
"A vision of sound material in motion. No beginning: everything is there from the start." These words by Beat Furrer regarding
the masterful Nuun could also describe the sound surfaces that Stefano Gervasoni and his compatriot Aureliano Cattaneo, also
on the program, scrutinize so meticulously. Another piece by Beat Furrer on the program, Recitativo, makes use of the
monologue of the soprano from the novel Mademoiselle Else by Arthur Schnitzler, the prologue for a project entitled Fama
which brings together the composer with the director Christopher Marthaler for the opening of the Agora 2006 festival.
Friday, January 20 at 8:30pm, Centre Pompidou
Franck Bedrossian/Wolfgang Rihm
Two pieces face off, one of which is presented and performed again: Digital by Franck
Bedrossian and Fetzen by Wolfgang Rihm. The relationship created between the two pieces
calls upon the listener's memory. Beforehand, Frank Bedrossian accompanied the soloists from
the Ensemble intercontemporain will present his piece-in-work that will premier June 17 within
the context of the Agora 2006 festival, Divison for ensemble and electronics.
Tuesday, February 28 at 8:30pm, IRCAM
Reminder...
Play the game by Benjamin de La Fuente and Duo poétique et improbable by Pierre Bastien and Pierre Berthet within the
context of the Octopus Festival - "Instrument Inventors", Thursday, January 12 at 8:30pm, Centre Pompidou
George Benjamin, György Ligeti, Olivier Messiaen, Friday, January 13 at 8pm, Maison de la Radio
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Comment taire and Ryoanji by Olivia Grandville
Comment taire, produced at IRCAM for the Agora Festival in 2004, is the fruit of a close
collaboration with the Performing Arts Technology researchers on gesture sensing. The
concern is in the creation of a very precise space created by a paradoxical situation, because it
is challenged by a requirement - the technology used, the images and sound - an improvisation
project thus constrained. In counterpoint to this work with new technologies, Olivia Grandville
will also stage Ryoanji, a solo piece that originally premiered in 2000, reworked for this
presentation and inspired by John Cage's Ryoanji, homage to the famous Zen garden in Kyoto.
Thursday, January 19 through Saturday, January 21, Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
Galilée Opera by Michael Jarrell
In the domain of musical theater, Michael Jarrell already composed a chamber music opera and
a spoken opera based on Cassandre by Christa Wolf with the actress Marthe Keller. Galilée is
his first large scale opera. Inspired by a text by Bertold Brecht and commissioned by the Grand
Théâtre in Geneva where the world premier will be performed.
January 25, 27, 29 and 31, February 2 and 4, Grand Théâtre, Geneva
This is my House by Myriam Gourfink
Following a residence at IRCAM, the choreographer Myriam Gourfink presents a piece for six
performers that places choreographic writing at the heart of a computerized system that
generates sound and movement in real time.
from Thursday, February 16 to Saturday, February 18, Centre Pompidou
Collection Music/Science
This multidisciplinary collection co-published by IRCAM-Centre Pompidou and the Editions
Delatour and overseen by Jean-Michel Bardez and Moreno Andreatta, contributes to the
contemplation of the relationship between two activities that have been intimately connected
since ancient times: musical thought and scientific thought. Publications forthcoming in January:
Penser la musique avec les mathématiques ? Seminar notes Mathématiques/Musique/
Philosophie, under the supervision of Gérard Assayag, Guerino Mazzola and François Nicolas
Formalismes et modèles musicaux, in two volumes by André Riotte and Marcel Mesnage
Mathematical Theory of Music by Franck Jedrzejewski
The OM Composer's Book by Carlos Agon, Gérard Assayag and Jean Bresson
The Virtual Winds of BRASS
BRASS is a new kind of instrument: the virtual reproduction of a trumpet, a saxophone and a trombone. You can "play" these
instruments with the same parameters as a musician: level of control, playing flexibility, expressive possibilities. BRASS is the
result of a project carried out collectively by Arturia and IRCAM. This group of plug-ins for commercial synthesizers (VST,
RTAS, AU, protocols HTDM, DXi) is available through IRCAM. The RIAM WindSet project, the impetus for this collaboration,
also allows the user to create applications for Max/MSP (Ircam/Cycling'74), which is accessible through the IRCAM Forum.
Available soon in our boutique (January)
Metropolis
Music by Martin Matalon for the film by Fritz Lang
After harnessing the words of Borges, Martin Matalon turned to the expressionist images of Fritz
Lang, composing for Metropolis an instrumental and electro-acoustic score. Recorded at the
Théâtre du Châtelet in 1995, this piece makes use of sound processing techniques, the result of
IRCAM research, that create through the use of a spatializator, the illusion of a sound moving
around the listener. The new edition of this CD by IRCAM provides the opportunity to rediscover
this creation by an Argentinean composer.
Available soon in our boutique (January)
Research and Creation Seminars
The artistic and scientific communities at Ircam - composers, researchers, and music assistants - present their work to the
public.
Thursday, January 12 Stephano Gervasoni will present his new piece L'ingenuo
Thursday, January 26 Hector Parra will present his new piece Chamber symphonie-Quasikristal
Thursday, February 23 Gilles Grand will present his sound installation L'Amiral cherche une maison à louer
At 12pm, salle Stravinsky, IRCAM
Conference Cycle on the Representation of Musical Time
Three sessions to approach the evolution of musical time and rhythm notation using its different
forms of representation (score, etc.), the representations of musical time linked to computer
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assisted compositional tools and sound synthesis, as well as the specific conceptions of time
put into play with the notion of the "open work" which establishes a renewal of form and
perception. Free entry.
Mondays, January 16, 23 and 30, from 6:30pm to 8pm, IRCAM
MaMuX Seminar
"Mathematics, music and relationships with other disciplines"
This seminar seeks to create a pertinence hypothesis, both musical and mathematical, of the mathematic/music relationship
through an exploration of the connections that are made with other disciplines such as philosophy, epistemology, linguistics,
information technology, and cognitive sciences...
Saturdays, January 14 and February 25, from 3pm to 7pm, IRCAM
Reminder...
Lesson on Schoenberg, contemporary to the invention of the musical recording: Tuesday, January 24 at 2pm, Cité de la
Musique
Software Courses
Several training courses are available to familiarize you with the technology developed at
IRCAM.
Diphone Saturday, January 7 and Sunday, January 8
Jitter (level 1) Saturday, January 14 and Sunday, January 15
Musique Lab Workshop Wednesday, January 18
AudioSculpt (level 2) Saturday, January 21 and Sunday, January 22
Sound Design 1: sound form from Tuesday, Jnauray 24 through Thursday, January 26
Max/MSP for Directors and Theater Technicians from Monday, January 30 to Friday,
February 3
*** THE DIRECTOR OF IRCAM AND HIS TEAM WISH YOU AN EXCELLENT YEAR 2006! ***