In the form of a dynamic journey, the works presented in this concert spread through space, in a narrative continuity close to drone music with a cinematic accent.
Like a continuous flow, the music is first explored in a development that seems rather static, to gradually fill with a kind of strong energy, almost dull.
Guests come to close each of the three chapters of the concert, like a call for air towards the outside, in friendship: Chuck Bettis, Simon Whetham and finally Terre Thaemlitz.
Fascinated by post-punk, rock, dub, electronica and even pop, Bérangère Maximin is also influenced by composers such as François Bayle, Luc Ferrari, Eliane Radigue and the electronic glitch scene. She shows a taste for mixing heterogeneous sounds with a sense of detail and reveals a nuanced and dynamic sound writing, often through the repetition of small fragments of sounds and the inclusion by transparency of the voice and various sound objects. She thus shapes sounds that are cut, customized, and embellished with layers of field recording, creating textured sound environments while cultivating the ambivalence of sounds fixed on a support and their total independence from their sources.
Production
GMEM
Within the framework of
la Belle Fête de Mai
In partnership with The Convent
Bérangère Maximin
composer
Operating out of her personal studio since 2008, Bérangère Maximin has developed her own approach to sound art and electroacoustic music, composing dense and immersive pieces with immediate impact.
In six albums that have garnered international attention, she has revealed a taste for mixing sounds with a sense of detail, nuanced and dynamic sound writing with digital material.
Her music engages the listener in considering spaces and textures, with the ambivalence of medium-bound sounds being central to her work.
Her work has been released on the Tzadik (USA), Subrosa (BE), Crammed Discs (BE) and Atlas Realisations (GB) labels.
Her latest album Land of Waves was released in June 2020 on the Berlin-based label Karlrecords. He was nominated for the Grand Prix Lycéen des Compositeurs 2021 of the Maison de la Musique Contemporaine with the work Off The Page.
Bérangère Maximin trained with Denis Dufour, in his acousmatic composition class at the CRR of Perpignan, then as an assistant at Motus / Futura before becoming an independent composer.
The Convent, Marseille
52 Rue Levat13003
Marseille
RATE
Free admission subject to availability
DURATION
1h00 approx.
BAR AND RESTAURANT
Le Couvent
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Bérangère Maximin
composition