After Claude Debussy
Claudine Simon and Christian Sebille both have a relationship with musical writing, even if their training and careers have taken dissimilar paths. Claudine Simon, seeking to divert the instrument she has always played, questions her intimate relationship with the piano. As for Christian Sebille, seeking to rediscover the pleasure of immediate instrumental play, he develops controlled electronic lutherie.
The search for timbres within the piano provides the sound material for the transformations brought about by the electronics. Improvisation is built through the dialogue between the two musicians, thanks to the coming and going of sonorities and musical proposals.
Then emerge reminiscences, evanescent phantoms between the materials and sound features of three preludes by Claude Debussy. They form the perspective axes of the stroll. The landscape changes and metamorphoses between the thickness of the sounds, the memories that form our memory and the new discovery of a never-before-seen panorama.
Executive productions
GMEM - Centre national de création musicale
Creation of the
project for the France Musique program "à l'improviste
Claudine Simon is developing a sound creation work that focuses on experimenting with the instrument and the capabilities of the piano. She conceives performances that allow her to question her relationship to the instrument by deconstructing the representations associated with it.
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.
Claudine Simon
prepared piano
Christian Sebille
live electronics