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Commissioned by INA-GRM (2008) (~ 12') Composition for electroacoustic instrument
The interpretation of Incises -as well as its previous composition- unfolds in a constant dialogue between gesture and listening : from cracked spaces to broken trajectories, the gesture carves matter, crackles it, traces trenches into it... A space cracks down, the next one emerges... Between theses slits a trajectory for listening gets drawn.
For this piece, I wished to work, in the context of my residency at INA-GRM, with the "Coupigny" analog synthesizer, from which were produced the sonic materials of some of the major works of the GRM repertoire. This choice was for me a way to affirm my place in a certain continuity with the statement of this musical research center, and in particular in its early days -60s/70s- where were born all kinds of experimentations on the acoustic material, underlying on these two - fundamental for me - components, that are gesture and listening.
I then "replayed" these sonic materials of the -analogic- synthesizer in a mode contemporary device -digital-, in order to extend this relationship to the gesture -this dialogue between the hand and the machine producing the sound that François Bayle, for instance, told about- beyond the moment of the production of the material, to the interpretation situation itself, at the moment of the performance, as well as in the composition process. Performed in concert : march 27th 2008, for the Présences Électroniques festival, organized by GRM at the "Maison de Radio France" march 28th 2008, for the Journées Électriques, organized by GMEA , at the Scène Nationale d'Albi april 10th 2008, for the Nuit Électronique, at Parvis, Scène Nationale de Tarbes , with Pyrogenesis june 21st 2008, for the Fête de la Musique , at Maison des Métallos, Paris, invited by GRM march 25th 2009, for the Borealis festival in Bergen, along with Pyrogenesis and an improvisation with Bjørnar Habbestad march 26th 2009, for the Journées Électriques, organized by GMEA , at the Scène Nationale d'Albi |
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