Launched in 2020, Ircam's Musiques-Fictions collection offers a unique literary and sound experience, combining a contemporary text with a musical creation, in an immersive broadcasting system.... Installed under Ircam's 49-speaker ambisonic diffusion dome, reconstituted in the GMEM Module, the listener is invited to a listening experience in which the imagination is stimulated by a sound environment with extensive expressive possibilities, enabling the reproduction of a
listening situation close to that of the real world, from the great spectacular stage to the most minute details of intimate discourse.
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This Music-Fiction entitled "Naissance d'un pont" (Birth of a Bridge), inspired by the novel of the same name, crosses the destinies of men and women who come to mythical California to help build a gigantic suspension bridge...
A formidable documentary on this titanic construction site, and a reflection on the collateral effects of globalization and the domestication of great natural spaces.
Coproduction
Ircam-Centre Pompidou; Centre Dramatique National de Tours
Support
Sacem
Based on
"Naissance d'un pont" by Maylis de Kerangal (2010) © Éditions Verticales
In partnership with
la Friche la Belle de Mai
"With the music for "Naissance d'un pont", my intention was to combine the characteristics of both a fresco and a portrait: on the one hand, the monumentality of the fresco, which traces great arches between an overall narrative plan and a fixed installation; on the other, the richness of detail, a swarming of tiny events, like a Flemish portrait.
The music does not illustrate the text, but constitutes a veritable "second text" that counterpunches the first, revealing its detail only on very careful listening, or on a second listening.
In this context, that of the means of immersion afforded by ambisonic sound, my aim is not to explore complex sound trajectories in space, but rather to inscribe certain archetypal movements that can be identified, repeated and become, in a way, the "spatial signature" of each episode. In short, the aim is to build a physical sound experience as well as a literary journey.
- Daniele Ghisi
"The epic breath of the bridge's construction alternates with the concrete situations that link or oppose the various protagonists. Each of the six actors takes part in the choral dimension of the narrative, but also takes on one of the characters in the story. The rhythm and musicality specific to Maylis de Kerangal's writing are restored to establish a score of voices and words from which Daniele Ghisi can in turn compose an architecture of notes and sounds.
- Jacques Vincey
Maylis de Kerangal
Writer
She spent her childhood in Haute-Normandie, in Le Havre. After studying history, philosophy and ethnology in Paris, she began working for Gallimard Jeunesse in 1991. In 2000, she published her first novel, Je marche sous un ciel de traîne, with Verticales. Meeting with some success, the new writer continued her adventure by publishing "La Vie voyageuse" (2003), "Ni fleurs, ni couronnes" (2006) and "Dans les rapides" (2007). In parallel with this literary career, she founded Editions du Baron Perché, a publishing house specializing in children's literature, for which she worked until 2008. That same year, she won the Médicis and Femina awards for her novel "Corniche Kennedy" (2008). A succession of literary awards followed, in 2010 for her novel "Naissance d'un pont", in 2012 for "Tangente vers l'est", and finally in 2014 for her work "Réparer les vivants". The author also tried her hand at children's literature, publishing a children's album in 2011 with illustrator Alexandra Pichard.
Daniele Ghisi
Composer
Born in France in 1984, Daniele Ghisi studied Musical Composition at the Bergamo Conservatory with Stefano Gervasoni and continued his studies with the Ircam Cursus.
In 2009-2010, he was composer-in-residence at the Akademie der Künste (Berlin); in 2011-2012, he was composer-in-residence in France, member of the Académie de France à Madrid - Casa de Velázquez. In 2015, he was in residence in Milan with Ensemble Divertimento, recording his first monographic CD "Geografie". Since 2010, together with composer Andrea Agostini, he has been developing the computer-assisted composition library "Bach: automated composer's helper".
He is co-founder of the blog nuthing.eu, where he writes.
His work is published by Casa Ricordi. Between 2017 and 2020, he teaches Electroacoustic Composition at the Conservatory of Genoa. He is currently a composer-researcher at the University of California, Berkeley (CNMAT).
Jacques Vincey
Director
Director and actor Jacques Vincey has directed the Théâtre Olympia - Centre dramatique national de Tours since January 2014. As an actor, he has worked notably with Patrice Chéreau, Bernard Sobel, Robert Cantarella, Luc Bondy, Nicole Garcia, Peter Kassovitz, Alain Chabat...
He founded Compagnie Sirènes in 1995, with whom he has staged numerous shows, including Strindberg's "Mademoiselle Julie", Yukio Mishima's "Madame de Sade", which won the Molière for costume designer, Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night", Lygre's "Jours souterrains", and Calderón's "La vie est un rêve".
At the Comédie-Française, he directed Plato's "Le Banquet" (2010) and Molière's "Amphitryon" (2012).
For the opening of the 2014-2015 season at the Théâtre Olympia, he presented Witold Gombrowicz's "Yvonne, Princess of Burgundia". He created Howard Barker's "Und" with Natalie Dessay in May 2015, Marivaux's "La Dispute" with the Ensemble Artistique actors in February 2016, and Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" (Business in Venice), in which he played the role of Shylock.
In opera, he directed Benjamin Britten's "Midsummer Night's Dream" in April 2018 at the Grand Théâtre de Tours.
In November 2018, he created Joël Pommerat's "La Réunification des deux Corées" in Singapore, bringing the show back to the CDN de Tours and the MC93-Bobigny.
In February 2019, he created a touring version of Marivaux's "L'Île des esclaves", which was performed more than twenty times in the Indre-et-Loire department, before presenting a second version on the stage of the Théâtre Olympia in September 2019.
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DURATION
1h45 (approx. 10-minute intermission)
Maylis de Kerangal
text
Daniele Ghisi
music and direction
Jacques Vincey
Acting, adaptation and direction
Emmanuelle Zoll
adaptation
Jérémie Henrot
sound engineering
Thibaut Carpentier
scientific advisor Ircam-STMS
with the voices of
François Chattot (Georges Diderot)
Marie-Sophie Ferdane (Summer Diamantis)
Laurent Poitrenaux (Sanche Alphonse Cameron)
Julie Moulier (Catherine Thoreau)
Nicolas Bouchaud (Jacob)
Alain Fromager (Seamus O' Shaughnessy)
Anthony Jeanne (young orange bob)