Orchestra and glass speakers
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Since October 2018, Christian Sebille, composer and sound artist, has been invited in residence by the International Center for Research on Glass and the Visual Arts - CIRVA.
This art center in the Joliette district is internationally renowned for the collaborations it initiates between master glassmakers and artists. By nature oriented towards the creation of plastic forms (Pierre Huyghe, François Morellet, Pierre Soulages...), the collaboration takes a new turn here by investing glass as a sound object.
After a research on shapes and their acoustic signatures - balloons, bowls, cymbals, saucers or rods... broken, bell-shaped, hollow or sanded... - Christian Sebille develops a project of glass orchestra and immersive sound installation. In this research, glass is both an instrument and a membrane of acoustic diffusion. Each blown form, by definition unique, releases a singular sound wave, looped, transformed and propagated by glass loudspeakers.
The creation will be presented to the public in the double form of an electronic piece played in performance by Christian Sebille with the percussionist Philippe Foch, a protean and subtle musician, and an immersive installation animated by generative mechanics.
Paysage de Propagations brings together a multidisciplinary team: glass blowers, philosopher, composer, musicians, mechanical designers and computer music director.
The objective of this residency is to define the mechanical and computerized device of the installation with Vivien Trelcat of Sonopopée.
Winner
of the Device for Multimedia and Digital Artistic Creation (DICRéAM)
Production
GMEM and CIRVA, International Research Center for Glass and Plastic Arts
Partner
Saint-Ex, Culture Numérique - Reims
Development of mechanical and computer devices
Collectif Sonopopée - Reso-Nance-Fablab LFO
Christian Sebille is a composer and artistic director of the GMEM in Marseille. He works on the realization of sound installations in situ, in particular within the framework of a series entitled Miniatures. The place of sound capture is linked to the place of its diffusion in a ratio of space compression (reduction of the diffusion space in relation to the capture space) and temporal reduction (ratio of capture time / diffusion time). Moreover, he works on the concrete sound and on the capacity of the material to be in itself its own diffuser (the instrumental object). The radiation of the material and the movement of the object (sound) play with each other.
Program planned for the festival (((Interférence_s))) of the Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles/Paris from July 16 to August 29, 2021
Christian Sebille
conception, composition and electronics
Philippe Foch
percussionist
Francisco Ruiz de Infante
setting in space and image
Collectif Sonopopée
mechanical and digital generative device
CIRVA technical team
Christelle Noteletex
workshop manager
Valérie Olléon
glass paste technician
Fernando Torre, David Veis, Cyrille Rocherieux
glassblowers
Matthieu Girard
construction