Recording residence.
This project is first and foremost the exploration of a postulate, expressed in their respective research and increasingly brought together over time by the four project leaders: João Fernandes, Senior Lecturer at the University of Lille (electro-acoustic devices), Sean Drewry (synthesizer, sampler) and Magic Malik (flutes, objects, voice).
This postulate: that there is a possible link, and therefore an arrangement to be found to make this link explicit, between the activity of musical improvisation or improvisation as a mode of construction, and poetic activity or poetry as an activity of the mind. We refer here to the distinction once made by Tristan Tzara, for whom poetry was not only a means of expression, but also an activity of the mind. A whole range of experimental practices is based on the idea that the human voice, however it is expressed, is made up of the many, many voices that run through us and bind us together - each individual, an assembly.
Production
the Onze Heures Onze label
Support
Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis
Alexandre Pierrepont
Anthropologist working on the logics of what Patrick Chamoiseau has called "diversality", from the poetic to the political and back again, on the phenomena of "double consciousness" and otherness within Western societies - more particularly on Afro-American music as an alternative social institution - Alexandre Pierrepont divides his time between North America and France, between the various "jazz worlds" and academic institutions. In the field, he strives to bring together the worlds of scientific research and musical or socio-musical experimentation. Or poetic.
Malik Mezzadri
Malik Mezzadri (Magic Malik) is a flautist-composer of Guadeloupean origin, born on 29/01/1969. He was trained by Jean Louis Beaumadier at the CRR de Marseille at the age of 17. After winning a first prize, he went on to form his own group, Le Magic Malik Orchestra, in Paris in 1992. He has made a name for himself with a wide range of collaborations, from popular music to so-called scholarly music, as a performer, improviser, arranger and composer, and his extensive personal discography. He is a resident composer at the Villa Médicis (2011-2012), resident at the Royaumont Abbey (2015-2018) and named Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres in 2015. He is also known for his formal research, developing his own languages for composition and improvisation.
João Fernandes
João Fernandes is a composer and improviser of electroacoustic and mixed music. He develops his musical universe with digital instruments of his own design. Interested in the interaction between acoustic and digital instruments, he participates in various improvisation projects and ensembles such as Grand8. He also teaches musicology at the University of Lille. His research focuses on the analysis and development of digital instruments dedicated to free musical improvisation.
Sean Drewry
Sean Drewry is a musician based in Marseille. As part of a DIY approach, he creates for film, live performance and experimental music. Drawing his inspiration from art brut and overcycling practices, he promotes a creative DIY art of collage, homage and self-reference.
Alexandre Pierrepont
texts, vocals
"Magic" Malik Mezzadri
flutes, vocals
João Fernandes
digital instruments, sampling
Sean Drewry
synthesizer, sampling
Pierre Favrez
recording engineer