Paris 8 University, the Maison des Sciences Humaines et Sociales Paris Nord, in partnership with the University of Gedaï (Tokyo, Japan), invite the Ensemble Cairn for a concert highlighting Japanese music and the question of sound space.
In Japanese, the concept of Ma, whose kanji depicts a sun (日) framed by a gate (門), refers to the interval between two things. It can be an interval of space or time. A void transition leading from one space to another, a suspension between two gestures, between two sounds.
Espaces ouverts is that suspended musical moment, devoted to listening to the movement of sound from its production by the instruments, through its transformation by computer processing, and finally to its diffusion through different types of loudspeakers distributed throughout the auditorium. A kind of magical operation that each piece explores in its own way.
Hitomi Kaneko imagines a three-dimensional sound space in which the flute is literally projected into a fluid landscape, constantly deconstructed and recomposed. Spatial Instruments for flute and cello by Alain Bonardi explores new relationships between the performers and an ambisonic synthesizer of sound spaces. It represents the very first sketch of the research conducted by the G3S team (ERC project Generative Spatial Synthesis of Sound and Music), led by Alain Bonardi.
Sombre by Jean-Luc Hervé uses a nomadic sound device that the composer installs in the spaces where the piece is meant to exist for a fragment of time. Sombre invites us to pay attention to what surrounds us. The musician becomes a guide who opens our ears to the sounds of our environment. Like Francis of Assisi, Papageno, or bird whistlers, he engages in dialogue with the invisible presences around us.
Noriko Baba imagines a forgotten animal bestiary evolving freely within these virtual spaces. Tobi ishi, literally “the wall of birds,” an electroacoustic piece developed from birdsong, echoes this idea directly. It welcomes the audience into this in-between realm of the ordinary world.
Hitomi Kaneko
Composition par modélisation 3D flûte et électronique (création)
Noriko Baba
Bestiarium Musicale IV pour flûte et violoncelle
Avant le chant d’amour pour violoncelle
Jean-Luc Hervé
Tobi Ishii pour bande-son
Trio pour flûte, clarinette et violon
Alain Bonardi
Spatial instruments pour flûte, clarinette, cello, électronique (création – commande de l’Ensemble Cairn)
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