Presentation

Bidule 2.0 is a revisitation of composer Pierre Henry's untapped sound heritage, covering the period from 1949 to 2017.

Over several decades, Pierre Henry and his assistants have accumulated an impressive quantity of recordings and concrete sounds, as well as electronic sounds derived from various studio techniques...

Pierre Henry's sound library on analog and digital tape bears witness to the recording techniques of the time.

Example: recording sound objects encapsulated in time (resonant space and materials, urban rumor, quality of microphones or recording media).

Among all the recordings in Pierre Henry's oeuvre, many raw sound materials have never been used.

There are three categories:
1. Sounds that make up the composer's works.
2. Sounds that have been pre-selected for a particular work, but have never been used.
3. Unused sound materials.

As part of Bidule 2.0, these specific materials from the second half of the twentieth century will be processed, filtered and arranged in real time using a current technology: Idiosyncrasy (Max-msp & Lemur) Version 9.3. The developer of this technology is Charles Bascou, GMEM - Centre national de création musicale 2012/2018.

This device is a digital transposition of a no-input system ErikM designed in 2000 (3K- Pad ∞ system).

The project

Bidule 2.0 is organized in two parts, the first being an acousmatic composition for a minimum of 8 loudspeakers and the second an electronic live performance, two practices that characterize ErikM's work.

In the acousmatic version, these two approaches will be made up entirely of unused original sounds by Pierre Henry. In the live electronic version, other unpublished sounds by Pierre Henry will be mixed with ErikM's sound materials.