"Timbre that is no longer measurable by hearing. As if the sound that surpasses us on all sides were the space that matures."
- Rainer Maria Rilke, Distant Song
Auscúltare is a mixed piece for two voices and ultra-directional speakers.
The composition questions the links between the human voice and sound environments. The synthetic sounds, diffused by the four ultra-directional loudspeakers, act here as a necessary counterpoint to the perception of acoustic spaces. (Topos)
The process consists in playing superimpositions between acoustic human voices and synthetic sounds projected in space. The one and the other extend, complete and tune each other, provoking a play of unheard-of timbres.
Delegated production
GMEM
Commande d'État
for the writing of original musical works 2022 by GMEM
Coproduction
Mujō and D.D.A Contemporary Art
Support
Sacem ; DICRéAM 2021 ; DRAC ; Région SUD ; Maison de la Musique Contemporaine
Creation residencies
VOCE - CNCM (Pigna, Corsica) and GMEM
In partnership with the Friche la Belle de Mai
Born in Annecy in 1982. After studying music, notably clarinet and drums, he discovered the music of Pierre Schaeffer. A field of possibilities opens up as much with electronic tools as with traditional instruments.
Raphaële Kennedy
soprano
Raphaële Kennedy is a soloist and polyphonist who has devoted her artistic life to the interpretation of early music and to the creation of contemporary works, with the same demand to draw out the palpitation of meaning and the same desire to give a taste of it in order to transmit the emotion.
First recognized with Jordi Savall, François Lazarevitch and the Musiciens de Saint-Julien, Jean-Marc Aymes and Concerto soave, Guido Balestracci and l'Amoroso, Jean Tubéry and La Fenice, within A Sei Voci, the European ensemble William Byrd, the Paladins, the Poème Harmonique, the Demoiselles de Saint-Cyr?
She is now also a reference in contemporary creation, performing in internationally renowned venues and festivals. She is the author of numerous works and works closely with composers and electroacousticians. She is notably the voice of the visual concerts of Kaija Saariaho and Jean-Baptiste Barrière, the heroine of Philippe Leroux's opera L'Annonce faite à Marie, the title role of Laurent Cuniot's opera L'Enfant inouï, the privileged interpreter of Pierre-Adrien Charpy and solicited by Robert Pascal, Mauro Lanza, Gianvincenzo Cresta, Matteo Franceschini, Ben Foskett, Loïse Bulot and Bertrand Wolff.
A specialist in recitals for solo voice and electronics, she is also a regular guest artist with the ensembles tm+ (Laurent Cuniot), Multilatérale and Les Métaboles (Léo Warynski), Ars Nova (Benoît Sitzia) and Regards. She has been a permanent member of the Solistes XXI (Rachid Safir).
She is the artistic director of Da Pacem, a company invested in early music, contemporary creation and the dialogue of cultures founded with the composer Pierre-Adrien Charpy. It is within this framework - from duets to small ensembles and multidisciplinary or multimedia shows - that she freely bases her work on sensuality, theatricality and rhetoric. She thus favors the embodied transparency of the voice, the accuracy of style, the brilliance that emerges on the angle of the word and the declamatory gesture that makes music the amplification of the word.
She has made some forty recordings and in 2016 founded with the composer Pierre-Adrien Charpy and the photographer-videographer Isabelle Françaix the musical and visual collection Avec of the Cypres label.
Isabelle Deproit
contralto, soloist
Trained as a pianist, Isabelle Deproit completed her musical studies at the Lyon Conservatoire, where she first won a medal in this discipline, then a first prize in accompaniment. She also obtained a degree in musicology from the University of Lyon II, and trained as a choral conductor at the ENM in Villeurbanne. At the same time, she studied singing with Cécile de Boever, Mireille Deguy and Elène Golgevit, and joined a number of ensembles including Spirito (Nicole Corti), the Solistes de Lyon (Bernard Tétu) and the Six Voix Solistes de Résonance Contemporaine (Alain Goudard), Calliope, Voix de femmes (Régine Théodoresco), Solistes XXI (Rachid Safir), the Mora Vocis ensemble and the 4 anima quartet, with whom she records several discs and performs regularly in France and abroad (Italy, Canada, Hong Kong...).).
She is also a soloist in various operas and oratorios (Miss Bagott in Britten's Le petit ramoneur , La Colère in Rameau's Les éléments réunis , Orphée in Guilhem Lacroux's La nuit des temps modernes ...) as well as a singer/actress and improviser in musical theater pieces (Compagnie Abribus, Collectif Arts Mobiles, Compagnie Amadeus rocket...).
Her love of contemporary music, and particularly of new music, has led her to collaborate with composers such as Kaija Saariaho, Lucien Guérinel, Sophie Lacaze, Olivier Mellano and Bertrand Wolff... Exploring the link between the body in movement and the voice, she took part in the show Apnée with choreographer Yuval Pick (CCN de Rillieux-la-Pape) and runs workshops on this theme.
Guillaume Stagnaro
visual artist, teacher, researcher
Guillaume Stagnaro's protean work initiates dialogues with other creative actors (artists, musicians, theorists, etc.).
By developing algorithmic systems and writings, he explores the collaborative dimension and rethinks networked work, while escaping the egotistical behavior of the artist. Guillaume Stagnaro revisits the notions of responsibility, compatibility and ecology of thought by focusing his attention on new types of relationships. He collaborates with many artists such as Saâdane Afif, Nicolas Moulin, Marie Reinert, Francis Alÿs, Eric Baudelaire, Félix Blume... - stagnaro.net
Alexandre Martre
lighting designer
A native of Marseilles for 25 years, the common thread in his career has been the desire to live a variety of human and artistic experiences.
Since then, he has been working for a long time and regularly engages in new collaborations with companies and venues in dance, contemporary theater, opera, experimental music, with, among others, Alexandra Tobelaim, Kelemenis & Cie, Concerto Soave, GMEM.
He is also a lighting director, general director, technical director and trainer, in France and abroad. He participated in the creation of Klap - Maison pour la danse and is currently collaborating on the creation of the new CDN in Thionville.
Friche la Belle de Mai (the Module)
41 Jobin Street13003
Marseille
DURATION
40 min.
Bertrand Wolff
composition
Raphaële Kennedy
soprano
Isabelle Deproit
contralto
Guillaume Stagnaro
robotics design
Alexandre Martre
light creation and general management