CONCERT
Festival Agora |
Written 22 February |
Wednesday 17 June, 20:00Musée d'Orsay, 75007 [map] Vassos Nicolaou, Luciano Berio, Georges Aperghis, Marco Stroppa, Dai Fujikura
How is it possible to accompany a soloist, to anticipate and follow the movements of the soloist when the accompanist is a computer?
This challenge was decisive in the concept of chamber music with electronics; it passes by a polyphonic "score following" (Vassos Nicolaou), or by a location where the interaction between the autonomous world of electronics and the devilish character of the violin (
Marco Stroppa) become poetry. In the copious writing of Dai Fujikura, an orchestra made up of virtual string instruments is born from a single, real viola. This temptation to multiply is the driving force behind the solitary line of
Georges Aperghis' oeuvre that draws a "escape path among the tensions from the magnetic fields, the harmonic pressures". The piece Naturale closes the final concert of the Berio series, to "accompany" is not a question of technology, but of the complex aesthetic connection between two worlds. The popular songs from Sicily, recorded by
Luciano Berio are attached to an 'intermittent' tape.
"My dream, I know it is utopist, would be to unify traditional folk music and our music - to establish a real passage, perceptible and understandable, between these old popular music, so close to the daily toil of people and our music."
| What: | Vassos Nicolaou, Luciano Berio, Georges Aperghis, Marco Stroppa, Dai Fujikura |
| When: | Wednesday 17 June, 20:00 |
| Where: | Musée d'Orsay, 1, rue de la Légion d'Honneur 75007 [map] |
| Transport: | Solférino/Assemblée nationale |
| Cost: | 21EUR |
| Phone: | +33(0)1 40 49 48 14 |
| Web: | www.musee-orsay.fr |
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