Research and composition residency.
"Alpages" is an ethno-artistic creation based on immersion in a territory and sound fieldwork. Sheep pastoralism in the valleys of Champsaur-Valgaudemar is the primary support for a work dedicated to mountain pastoral landscapes. The musical work created is a mixed acousmatic piece, accompanied by a sound documentary, an ethnographic appendix to the musical creation. It is designed to be performed in different territories, and is aimed at all types of audience.
This creation is part of an approach to raising awareness and poetically interpreting the issues linked to mountain pastoral activity, in a bold form that also aims to make our music accessible to all.
Production
FeM collectiu
Support
La Communauté de Communes Champsaur-Valgaudemar
Iris Kaufmann
Sound artist
Electroacoustic composer, singer, performer and ethnologist. Her relentless curiosity has given her an atypical career path! After more than ten years exploring the worlds of Occitanism, traditional music and carnival, she began studying electroacoustic composition at the Cité de la Musique and the Marseille Conservatoire. A gleaner of all kinds of sound bodies, sounds, songs and lyrics, she bases her compositional approach on the re-use of these materials in the elaboration of plural artistic forms at the crossroads of research, artistic experimentation and transmission.
Founder of the FeM company, she directs the Faiseurs de Paysages research and creation cycle, the first phase of which focused on soundscape composition processes in transhumant pastoral zones in the southern Massif Central. Her research now spans several territories, from the Garrigue to Mont Lozère, via Provence and the Hautes Alpes. She also composes sound documentaries on rural themes.
Iris Kaufmann
composition, voice, sound bodies
Alban de Tournadre
composition, sound bodies, synthesizers, computer music director
Marc Blancard
interpretation, sound bodies, dogs and herd
Mathieu Semman
computer music production, sound engineering, multiphonic interpretation