GMEM is a partner of digitİZMir_9 International Digital Music Festival
The 9th edition of the international digital music festival digitIZMir will be held at the Institut Français d'Izmir on October 3 and 4, 2024. This festival, where technology and art meet creatively, will feature four concerts with artists such as Hainbach, Christian Sebille, Philippe Foch, as well as Javier Hagen, Ulrike Mayer-Spohn, Dilay Doğanay, At the Langham, Hakan Kılıç and Kaan Selçuk.
GMEM collaborates with Yaşar University in Izmir (Turkey) to promote encounters and exchanges.
Our relationship with the Mediterranean and our openness to other practices, ways of thinking and relationships is fundamental...
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Christian Sebille (composer) and Philippe Foch (percussionist and composer) have been working together for over 10 years.
Christian Sebille is developing electronic and computerized lutherie to process sounds, notably those proposed by Philippe Foch.
Foch has been playing oriental percussion for a long time, and is involved in creations that develop new acoustic lutheries (using metal plates, stones, leaves, etc.).
With students from the University of Izmir, they propose...
Organization of workshops
- instrumental improvisation
- electronics
- improvisation with instruments and electronics
Concert
Thursday, October 3, 7:30 p.m.
Duo (percussion and electronics)
Piece for solo electronics (octophony), 40 min.
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Upcoming exchanges in 2025:
The GMEM will welcome Mehmet Can Özer, professor at the Faculty of Art and Design (Music Department), to its studios.
Support
Institut Goethe d'Izmir and Institut Français d'Izmir
Partnership
GMEM
Organized
under the artistic direction of Mehmet Can Özer
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.
Philippe Foch
Musician, percussionist
A versatile musician, Philippe Foch is a "crossroader of territories": from traditional, improvised and electroacoustic music to theatrical and performance experiences. Originally a drummer, he is one of the few French percussionists to have a close relationship with the tablas, which he learned from Pandit Shankar Ghosh. His study of Indian music has influenced his approach, giving his playing and writing a rich palette combining traditional and contemporary sounds. His collaboration with François Cervantes began in 1986: he was an actor in Le venin des histoires, and a musician in Bars, On a marché sur la terre, Quelques jours avant l'équinoxe de printemps, Masques and Le concert. He composed the music for Le Voyage de Penazar, Les Oiseaux - Le bord du monde, Une île. His career has also been marked by intense collaboration in jazz and free music with, among others, Akosh S Unit between 1993 and 2002 (9 universal albums). Les Amants de Juliette with Serge Adam and Benoit Delbecq, Les Voyageurs de l'espace, Didier Petit's project with Claudia Solal in trio, Soleil Rouge with Didier Petit and Sylvain Kassap. His work with electronics has developed with Eryck Abecassis, Kasper Toeplitz, Philippe Le Goff, Christian Sebille and Mathias Delplanque. He joined the IRE ensemble (Franck Vigroux, Kasper Toeplitz, Helene Breschand, Christophe Ruestch). He creates a solo Taarang (ensemble of 15 tablas and electronics) which gives rise to an album TAARANG (with guests). He also works with lithophone and electronics, and a solo LAAND has existed since 2015. An associate artist at Athenor, he has created Kernel, a solo for very young children; JARDIN with Philippe le Goff, a piece for raw natural materials and electronics; Jardins extérieurs jours, performances in landscapes; NOUT, a trio with Aurélie Maisoneuve (vocals) and Kazuli Fushigami (dance) and TEMPUS3 with Aurélie Maisonneuve, as well as LOIN DES YEUX, a video and sound installation with Erwan Keravec and MIST, a performance concert for a territory with Christian Sebille..
In addition to his work with François Cervantes and L'entreprise, he regularly composes for theater, dance and circus. His most recent compositions include Du goudron et des plumes by Mathurin Bolze, Them no go see with choreographer Sophiatou Kossoko and FilFil by Jeanne Mordoj.
Yasar University (Turkey)
IzmirFree admission
Christian Sebille
composer
Philippe Foch
percussionist and composer