La Marseillaise en mouvement is an interactive sound installation that captures the movements and gestures of visitors and translates them into sound, letting them explore and reconstruct, alone or collectively, sound worlds inspired by the national anthem La Marseillaise.
In this play space, the body becomes a tool for musical interpretation. Movements are captured by a camera and analyzed by a computer that produces various sequences, layers and sound objects. In return, the music incites the body to move, to look for other sounds.
The work consists of 7 "movements" composed by Tom Mays and 6 student composers, using a large number of recorded sounds, in collaboration with classes from the Conservatoire de Strasbourg and the Haute École des Arts du Rhin: pianoforte/harpsichord, a wind orchestra, a children's choir, instrumental improvisers and actors.
A true "collective" work where the audience has the last word.
Each movement is like an interactive piece of music with a distinct sound world and a duration of about 5 minutes each.
Movement 1 : Tom Mays (wind band, harpsichord, actors' voices, children's choir)
Movement 2: Abla Alaoui (synthetic sounds - VCV Rack, improvisation ensemble, wind band and children's choir)
Movement 3: Jad El Khechen (ensemble of improvisers, children's choir, various sounds)
Movement 4: Finbar Hosie (children's choir, cross-synthesis, synthesized voice)
Movement 5 : Alonso Huerta (ensemble of jazz improvisers, ondes Martenot)
Movement 6 : Ganghyuk Lee (actors' voices, improvisation and children's choir)
Movement 7: Rémy Ternisien (various instruments (sanza; tiahun; clarinet); orchestral sounds; voices (actors); various sound objects; analog and digital synthetic sounds).
Children's choir: prof. Anne-Juliette MeyerSophia Assad, Lilly Bagci, Carl Benoist, Nina Bjerregaard, Emmanuel Boulanger, Joséphine Brisbois, Lou Cressman, Matilde Diebelod, Antoine Erbalnd, Elisabeth Erbland, Gabrielle Erbland, Antonin Garzia, Anastasia Gedenidze, Matilde Gomes, Aleth Guillier, Jeanne Guillier, Gabrielle Guillier, Guénola Guillier, Anaïs Guyot, Eva Haroun Matthieu Heitz, Anjila Hetti, Salomé Kastendeuch, Mathilde Kieffer, Madeleine Klein, Méline M'barek, Margaux Martin, Milo Martin, Ivan Mosser, Donia Nafati, Valentine Neurohr, Lucie Papelier, Florina Pauliuc, Fiora Piccini, Thomas Raynaud, Mathilde Raynaud, Ariane Ribes, Mathilde Schosger, Eléonore Steffens, Vincent Suzan, Malo Villaume, Nina Villaume
Improvisation: prof. Jean-Daniel HégéMaxime Epp, Maxime Tonnelier, Louise Wetterwald
Theater: prof. Olivier AchardAuguste Bercker, Cléo Carèje, Thessaleia Degremont, Julie Denoyer, Lou Dussaut , Clarisse Ensenat, Lou Spath-Gansoinat, Noé Laussedat, Océane Testa
Wind band: prof. Miguel EtchegoncelayMathilde Abd-el-kader, Elisa Altun, Antoine Buchel, Agathe Chauvel, Victor Christmann, Pierre-louis Cormier, Charlotte Couturier, Louise Daubas, Emilie Deprez, Marius Fedele, Helene Froeliger, Louise Gerard, Elsa Halm, Claire Heimlich, Noemie Huber, Alexis Iffer, Gauthier Jabaudon-gandet chevalier, Emma Jaget, Estelle Janin, Perrine Joedicke, Thibault Keith, Augustin Kriegel, Sofiane Labidi, Domitille Lacore, Mathilde Lacour, Arthur Lentz, Herenui Liu, Laurent Montaudoin, Pauline Moreteau, Thomas Muller, Charlotte Nubel, Lauriane Peter, Laurane Petin, Elina Poncot, Jeanne Raison, Jules Rouxel, Jeanne Sanchis, Elodie Sandel, Romain Sauret, Rémi Schilling, Elisabeth Seckler, Remi Sevin, Marie Slimane, Gen Tanaka, Maxime Tonnelier, Soline Uhlmann, Matthias Viennot, Augustin Wigishoff, Victor Zeller
Pianoforte and harpsichord: Aline Zylberajch
In partnership with
the Museum of History of Marseille
Creation
Exhibition "La Marseillaise" in Strasbourg
Creation of the version for Marseille
Museum of History of Marseille and GMEM on the occasion of the exhibition "La Marseillaise" at the Museum of History of Marseille (from March 18 to July 3, 2022)
Coproduction
Museums of Strasbourg (Historical Museum and Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art)
Coproduction of the version for Marseille
Museum of History of Marseille and GMEM
Acknowledgements
Mathieu Schneider (music advisor of the exhibition "La Marseillaise" in Strasbourg), Vincent Dubois (director of the conservatory of Strasbourg) and David Cascaro (director of the Haute Ecole des Arts du Rhin - HEAR)
To all the teachers and students of the conservatory of Strasbourg and the HEAR who contributed to the project
Tom Mays
Composer of digital and mixed music for instruments, real time devices, electroacoustic media and new electronic instruments. He creates concerts, interactive installations, music for dance, theater and film. He is currently professor of Electroacoustic Creation and Interpretation at the Conservatoire de Strasbourg and at the Haute École des Arts du Rhin. He is very interested in the gestural controls of real time computing and electronic lutherie, in written and improvised music.
Abla Alaoui
Having obtained her degree in contemporary music at the University of Strasbourg, Abla Alaoui is currently pursuing her studies in a double degree program at the conservatory and at the university. In addition to the modular synthesizer, her interest is more widely focused on electronic and electroacoustic music. She seeks to introduce electronic music in different artistic fields.
Jad El Khechen
Musician and classical guitarist, interested in sounds, noise, chance, improvisation and creation. He continues his training in electroacoustic creation at the Higher Academy of Music, HEAR, under the direction of Tom Mays.
Ganghyuk Lee
A composer of mixed and electroacoustic music, Ganghyuk Lee is currently studying electroacoustic composition with composer and professor Tom Mays, Daniel D'Adamo and Annette Schlünz at HEAR / ASM (Haute École des Arts du Rhin / Académie supérieure de musique) in Strasbourg, France. He composes music from images and colors, influenced by his film studies and his work in composing music for short films and independent features.
Alonso Huerta
Born in Mexico City, he studied instrumental composition and jazz guitar before continuing his studies at the Conservatoire de Strasbourg in the classes of electroacoustic creation and ondes Martenot with Tom Mays, Christine Ott and Thomas Bloch since 2019. He is particularly interested in psychoacoustic processes in music, generative improvisation, sine waves, spectral music and ethnomusicological research of different points of view on sound and music.
Finbar Hosie
Born in 1996 in Salisbury (UK), he is a Franco-British composer. He is interested in the deconstruction of identity and the detour of the instrumental gesture through the use of electronics and accessory objects. A social questioning runs through his works, notably his installations, his collaborative and transdisciplinary work. He currently lives in Strasbourg.
Rémy Ternisien
Born in Boulogne-sur-Mer, Rémy Ternisien studied art and composition in Amiens. Studying with André Dion, he obtained a DNOP in electroacoustic composition in 2019. His work is spotted in several festivals in France and Italy. In 2020, he composed his first commissioned work for the Haut-de-France region. He is currently studying composition at the Higher Academy of Music in Strasbourg (HEAR).
GMEM (Friche la Belle de Mai)
41 Jobin Street13003
Marseille
Opening: Fri. May 6, 2022
> from 6:00 pm
Opening of the installation:
Sat. 7 - Sun. 15 May (except Mon. 9 + Tue. 10 May)
> from 2:00 pm to 7:00 pm
GMEM - Friche Belle de Mai
RATE
free admission
DURATION
continuous
Tom Mays
art direction and composition movement 1
AblaAlaoui, Jad El Khechen, Finbar Hosie, Alonso Huerta, Ganghyuk Lee and Rémy Ternisien
composition movements 2 to 7
Classes of the Conservatoire de Strasbourg and the HEAR
sound recordings