Nancy: Musique Action #37, catch-up session, eclecticism and vocal curiosity on all floors for 4 days

free entry…
Two words mean that to live the immersive experience presented as part of the Musique Action Festival, version 37, catch-up session at Vandeuvre-lès-Nancy, from September 30 to October 3, 2021, you won’t need anything else. From your senses and your health pass.

We are at the beginning of a new digital age.

Mathieu Shamani

“Sizes“It is a virtual reality installation imagined by Nancyien Mathieu Shamani.
You’ll be able to walk around in an empty space, but once you put the VR headset on your head, you’ll be ready to explore a whole new world. Sort of as if you were in a parallel room. You will be able to manipulate the audio stuff and compose your own music. The more you explore space and its possibilities, the more you touch at your fingertips the endless possibilities that the artist offers.

by Matthew ShamaniDigital technology offers the possibility of the infinite fabrication of things and the imagining of entire universes. We can make sound bodies, see them, manipulate them, and hear them. We are at the beginning of a new digital age.“In 2019, we reported on one of the phases of this work.

There, we’re already into contemporary artwork.

Olvier Perry, CCAM Director, Scène Nationale de Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy

In 2021, the installation was developed, as Olivier Berry, director of the André Malraux Cultural Center (CCAM) in Vandeuvre-lès-Nancy.
“The audience enters a virtual space which is a musical instrument, ignoring its rules. What are these machines? How do we play it? You have to try to manipulate them. It is a very complex system in virtual reality with “tracking devices” that make it possible to locate people and their gestures in space. Anyone can become a musician. There is obviously a computer programming business, but there is also great visual work. There is a very strong artistic and sound trend. It is truly a musical creativity theme. Often, when we enter shapes into virtual reality, we have very stereotypical audio and graphic worlds. There, we’re already into contemporary artwork. Mathieu Chamagne’s great strength is that he has hijacked all digital tools, including the form that can be found in video games. But here, we find ourselves in a unique scene to give people a true experience of contemporary artistic creativity.. ”

Volumes are open and free for the duration of the festival.

Anthony Laguerre and the Strasbourg Rhythm Ensemble

In the basics of the program, we can also remember the presence of filesAnthony Laguerre, also from Nancy, along with Strasbourg Rhythm With “Myotis V“.
Anthony Laguerre, composer, improvisational and sound engineer, has traveled through rock, noise and improvised music. He is also known for his exploration of drums.

Olivier Perry follows his career closely:He is someone who is constantly looking for new standards, in order to be able to manipulate a relatively familiar instrument, the drums. In his solo “Myotis”, he used the tension of the machine heads. He even went so far as to adjust the skin tightening while performing the piece in public. He is a musician who constantly pushes the limits of his instrument with exceptional ingenuity. There is a little “Jimmy Page” dimension to Anthony. How to make these drums sound different while staying within the periphery that this machine defines, it works on. He grew up at CCAM, first with Dominique Repecaud and then also showed a flair for writing and broadcasting. Writing for others and passing on this material, and thus, little by little, the desire to work with groups was born. ”

“Les percussions de Strasbourg is a band that will also celebrate its 60th anniversary.
This band selected the chamber orchestra format for percussion. The percussion instrument was invented in Strasbourg 60 years ago. The form seized all over the world. In recent years, this group has begun to look for encounters like the one that happened Ryoji Ikeda to me Musical celebration Strasbourg 2020.

The team is also in the desire to explore new formats. Their meeting ended. Anthony brought the material for his first solo songs, but with the idea that he wouldn’t be a lead vocalist on the piece. From the sound desk, “plays their interpretation.” It amplifies. It will look for subtle sounds, and amplify them. The idea is for us to hear sounds we don’t normally hear. Small, thin, almost inaudible sounds are highlighted during the performance of the piece. It is as if you are looking at an image for the smallest details and zooming in. It’s a project with an experimental dimension, but it also has the angry energy of Anthony’s music.. “

The piano for the twenty-first century

The humor, from the “piano instrument” posted by the artists, is very interesting.
The piano is talking to us. It seems that the piano is the one who plays the piano…

Olivier Berry enlightens us on this topic: “Claudine Simon, at base, is a classical pianist, and she asked herself the question: What would a piano destined for the twenty-first century be. In the 20th century, American musician Henny Coil came up with the idea to open the piano and play directly with the strings and not go over the keyboard. Next, John Cage puts forward the principle of a rigged piano. For “Pianomachine” Claudine Simon and Vivian Trillcat worked with engineering schools to imagine devices that would disrupt the normal performance of the piano. Instrumental systems work on piano strings, for example. The piano in the digital world is a bit wild. They hijack the piano to better reinvent it, to extract an element of musical creativity. The piano itself turns into a form of scenography and one can imagine the display of what is happening inside this piano on the screen. Claudine Simon is part of the new generation of composers. She is a prominent female figure that is emerging. “

Rebellion, emergency and anger

Olivier Perry offers us a discovery in collaboration withLorraine National Opera, Salle Poirel, 2 Oct. The work of an American composer whose work we are currently rediscovering.

“Evil Nigger’s first notes sound like a siren, like a call to revolution. A piece of music is rarely filled with this sense of urgency and anger. On this wonderful evening, with four pianists, showcasing a rediscovery of one of the greatest composers in American minimalism.. ”

Julius Eastman Anonymous died in 1990 and many of his scores have been lost. His work has been unfairly ignored, and has been the subject of recent rediscoveries.

Also note in Mr. C. C. Lilbon, Morning meeting with Lee Chronicles. musicologist cosmic clouds Artists will be invited for public discussions.

Electronic traditional music, improvisational music, eclectic and curious, action music festival, catch-up session 2021 promises to be exciting.