Orchestra and glass speakers
Since October 2018, composer and sound artist Christian Sebille has been invited to take up a residency at the Centre International de Recherche sur le Verre et les Arts Plastiques - CIRVA. This art center in the Joliette district is internationally renowned for the collaborations it initiates between master glassmakers and artists. By nature oriented towards the creation of plastic forms (Pierre Huyghe, François Morellet, Pierre Soulages...), the collaboration here takes a novel turn by investing glass as a sound material object.
Following research into shapes and their acoustic signatures - balloons, bowls, cymbals, saucers or rods... broken, bell-shaped, hollow or sandblasted... - Christian Sebille is developing a project for a glass orchestra and immersive sound installation. In this research, glass is both instrument and acoustic diffusion membrane. Each blown shape, by definition unique, releases a singular sound wave, which is captured, processed and transformed, then propagated by glass loudspeakers.
Paysage de propagations is an immersive installation that allows for performative forms, including one in the company of percussionist Philippe Foch, a subtle, protean musician who will play specific glass pieces that will be processed in real time by the digital transformation device interpreted by Christian Sebille.
Paysage de propagations brings together a multi-disciplinary team: glassblowers, philosopher, composer, musicians, mechanical designers and computer music producer who are working on two parallel projects, the second of which, led by Claudine Simon, is called Pianomachine.
Delegated production
GMEM, Cirva
Development of mechanical and IT devices
Collectif Sonopopée, LFO Fablab - Digital re-governance
With the participation of DICRéAM - Device for Multimedia and Digital Artistic Creation
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
percussionist
"Philippe Foch, a drummer by training, has been gravitating for 30 years within an intensely shifting sonic territory, resisting any form of routine or status quo, and never ceasing to challenge his achievements and reinvent his musical language. This language, whose beating heart lies in its rich percussive paraphernalia, is immediately striking for its rhythmic tonicity and organic vitality: a language that has been ruminated on for a long time, but which springs to life in the here and now". Jerome Provencal - Mouvement
Cirva
International Research Center for Glass and Plastic Arts62, rue de la Joliette
13002
Marseille
Christian Sebille
conception, composition and electronics
Philippe Foch
percussionist
Francisco Ruiz de Infante
space and image production
Collectif Sonopopée
mechanical and digital generative device
CIRVA technical team
composed of :
Christelle Notelet
former workshop manager
Valérie Olléon
glass paste technician
Fernando Torre, David Veis, Cyrille Rocherieux
glassblowers
Matthieu Girard
construction
