From 2018 to 2020, Christian Sebille, composer and sound artist, was invited in residence by Cirva - International Research Center for Glass and Plastic Arts. After researching forms and their acoustic signatures, the composer developed a project for a glass orchestra and an immersive sound installation. In this research, glass is both an object and a membrane of acoustic diffusion. Each blown form, by definition unique, releases a singular sound wave, looped, transformed and propagated by glass speakers.
"We are in an enclosed space where the glass pieces, awakened by slave mechanisms, propagate their sound identity. The lights sweep the space. Nothing seems fixed. Ten tables present unique pieces, inert, until the action of the striker. The breath of the glass artists is extended by the sound. The material goes from solid to vibrating, from frozen breath to its resounding expansion. The sounds propagate in the space, mix between their zones of propagation. The movements of the resonances require the immobility of the listener and his observation. You are in a decided place in your listening, at a place in the orchestra, close to what is loud, away from the distant."
- Christian Sebille.
Production
Cirva (International research center for glass and plastic arts) ; GMEM
Partnership
Saint-Ex, digital culture (Reims)
Development of mechanical and computer devices
Sonopopée Collective
Winner of the device for multimedia and digital artistic creation
DICRéAM
Support
La Sacem ; Onda
Acknowledgements
Reso-nance ; Fablab LFO
Cirva team
including Fernando Torre and David Veis, glass blowers; Cyrille Rocherieux, glass technician in charge of finishing; former members Valérie Olléon and Christelle Notelet
In partnership with the Pierre Barbizet Conservatory, an INSEAMM institution
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.
Sonopopée Collective
digital lutherie
Sonopopée is a group of musicians whose mission is to promote access to sound technologies and new digital lutheries. Composers, improvisers, and developers both computer and electronic, the members of the collective put their skills and their complementarity at the service of various artistic projects.
With a strong taste for exchange and transmission, Sonopopée seeks to promote the emergence of innovative practices through workshops around interactive and playful sound installations, such as De oratore, Memoriff, Stationhair... Since 2018, the Sonopopée collective is hosted by the incubator of Esad de Reims, as part of the DesignR program. Sonopopée is responsible for teaching sound creation at Esad de Reims. - edukson.org/ sonopopee-et-leducation-au-sonore
Cirva
international research center for glass and plastic arts
The International Research Center for Glass and Visual Arts (Cirva) is an art center that places creation at the heart of its project. Occupying a unique position on the world scene since 1983, it invites artists and designers to work with a specific material, glass, with total freedom. They are welcomed into the Cirva workshop alongside a team of high-level glass technicians with whom a dialogue begins. This exchange develops over time, a precious resource that Cirva cultivates by taking the precaution of not determining in advance the duration of each collaboration.
This tool offers the opportunity to conduct daring experiments where the limitless paths of thought meet a material that is reputed to be complex and unpredictable.
Cirva is a non-profit association, recognized as being of general interest, which has been supported since its creation by the Ministry of Culture / Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Regional Department of Cultural Affairs, by the City of Marseille, by the Conseil Régional Sud PACA and by the Conseil Départemental des Bouches-du-Rhône. - cirva.fr
Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional Pierre Barbizet
2, place Auguste et François Carli13001
Marseille
VERNISSAGE
Wed. May 3, 2023
From 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
By reservation only (with a reduced capacity): billetterie@gmem.org
OPENING OF THE INSTALLATION
Thu. May 4 - Sat. 13, 2023 (except Mon. May 8)
From 3:00 pm to 7:00 pm
LOCATION
Conservatoire Pierre Barbizet de Marseille
RATE
Free admission
DURATION
Continuous
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Christian Sebille
design and composition
Collectif Sonopopée
composed of
Maxime Lance
Vivien Trelcat
Nicolas Canot
mechanical and digital generative device
Cirva team
production and realization of glass
Matthieu Girard
wood and metal construction
Damien Ripoll
general management
Benoît Fremaux
general and stage management