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Holiday process


Some new musical processes are available in the process side page.
Par Sylvain Marquis

Saturer le Web / Saturate the Web


Les enregistrements des conférences des Mardis de la Saturation sont disponibles sur le site du cdmc.
The records of the Saturation's Tuesdays conferences are available on cdmc website. (in french)

Par Sylvain Marquis

To love Steve Reich


As a musicologist, I do not think I can still write today about Steve Reich. I love his music too intensely, and my analytical capacity would probably be obscured or frozen by this emotion. However, if my personal ethics prevents the scholar to speak, the musician may well write a note.
So !
We expect the release of Double Sextet and 2x5 which are already available in pre-order on the Nonesuch label's website. In the meantime we can already see and hear the piece on Youtube (see below, it's in 3 parts), or deceive our impatience with this interview, which also includes a midi file of 2x5.


Watching the video of Double Sextet, I am still took in this vital impetus that inhabits all his music. It's like an incantation that would make a pulsating ode to life, and just woke up the energy of our body. A very readable structural use of the augmentation and canon, articulating the tension of harmonies : the piece seem simple, just like Stravinsky's pieces... (But when you open the score of Agon or Dumbarton Oaks, it's another story.) His formal principle firmly drawn, and the ability to twist the rigid frame by melodic and harmonic flow, tend all the music in the arc of a contained expressiveness. If the tension between form and content in the music of Morton Feldman explores repetition and floating suspention, Steve Reich offers a tension that bubbles and stamps, an incredible energy that always seems about to blow his contrapuntal matrix!
In 1976 he predicted it might seem romantic with his Music for 18 musicians. But it's not romanticism, it's a baroque thrill. And today you can feel that Reich baroque expressiveness take as much impact as its shape does not break.
Well finally, the musicologist has spoken ...



Par Sylvain Marquis

Encart ludique

La Gazette du val d'Oise parle des animations jeux menées à conflans Sainte Honorine.
Homo ludis
 

Par Sylvain Marquis

Luthiers éparpillés

Après le festival ARTe SONoro qui s'est tenu le 22 avril à Madrid, 1500 catalogues vont être publiés, comportant mon texte "bricoleurs et luthiers, ou l'automatophonie dans les arts sonores".
 

Par Sylvain Marquis

Saturer la Cité

Je parlerai de la saturation dans les arts sonores aux mardi de la saturation. Rendez-vous au CDMC de la cité de la musique.

Par Sylvain Marquis

liens

...english side back asap
 

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