Memento is a musical cycle that summons natural materials (leaves, stones, wood, sand, water, grass), materials (metals, glass, wool, coal) and questions their power to become music or otherwise a meaningful sound.

The music is at once instrumental, performative, immersive and electronic. It features seven musicians positioned around the audience, moving from one island to the next. At the center of the set-up, a percussionist-performer officiates like a master of ceremonies, manipulating flowers, ringing stones, tapping metals and pieces of wood.
From these materials and gestures emanate sounds which, by means of a special microphone, are then slightly transformed. Half-concrete, half-electronic sounds first appear as interludes, then gradually permeate the music.

Memento is a set of six pieces, each using a different instrumental formation. The works to which the cycle refers are often in-between: halfway between sculpture and installation, performance and painting, scenography and hanging.

Mentions
Biography(s)
Location
Memento
Jérôme Combier
Performance
Thu. May 9, 2024 | 9:00 pm Friche la Belle de Mai (Grand Plateau)

RATES
Full 8€
Reduced 6€
Evening pass 10€ (including Ornithology at 7pm)

DURATION
approx. 1 h 00

RESTAURATION
Les grandes Tables

PRACTICAL INFORMATION
Latecomers will not be admitted to the auditorium, as some shows - at the request of the artistic teams - do not allow late entrances.

The GMEM is committed to the environment and invites you to use sustainable means of transportation.

Distribution

Jérôme Combier
composition

Corentin Marillier
percussion, performance

Ensemble Cairn

CédricJullion
flute (piccolo, alto and bass)
Ayumi Mori
clarinet (and bass clarinet)
André Feydy
trumpet
FannyVicens
microtonal accordion
Caroline Cren
piano
Constance Ronzatti
violin
Alexa Ciciretti
cello

Guillaume Bourgogne
direction

Etienne Démoulin
computer music producer

Pauline Falourd
lighting design



MUSIC PROGRAM

Jérôme Combier
Fumodi pietra - 2019 (5 min)
- Musica povera 1 (8 min)
Le ombre delle cose - 2020 (8 min)
- Musica povera 2 (8 min)
Luce e polvere - 2023 (5 min)
Wood and bones - 2020 (8 min)
- Lamiere (7 min)
Slate circle - 2023 (8 min)
- Musica povera 3 (5 min)
Waterlines - 2023 (12 min)

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