For several years, Miquèu Montanaro - galoubet tambourine player - and Christian Sebille - composer and electroacoustic performer - have shared the specificities of their instruments and their compositional methods, developing a repertoire and a reflection on the issues raised by the relationship between creation and tradition.
Athénor, Centre National de Création Musical, which has long been involved in this question, proposed to add Jean-François Vrod, violinist and storyteller, to the duo.
From these encounters, a body of experiences and exchanges was born, which led the trio to enrich their compositions with new sounds. An endless track of before, elsewhere, here and after...
Delegated production
Athénor scène nomade - CNCM
Coproduction
GMEM
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.
Born in Hyères in 1955. Miquèu Montanaro is a composer and multi-instrumentalist musician, with more than 40 albums to his credit. His main instrument is the galoubet tambourin (traditional Provencal instrument composed of a flute-tambourine duo).
Jean-François Vrod
Violinist
A violinist with a background in traditional French music, he began playing the violin as a teenager while attending the Parisian Folk-Club Le Bourdon. He then undertook his first collections on the music of oral tradition in the mountains of the Massif Central (Cantal, Haute-Loire). Concerned in his work as much by the valorization of popular cultures as by a contemporary extension of the gesture of the traditional musician, his road is marked out by many projects of creation. Thus, he collaborates or crosses on the occasion of various projects: Dominique Pifarely, Alain Savouret, Abbi Patrix, Fantazio, Denis Charolles and the Campagnie des musiques à ouïr, Frédéric Le Junter, Frédéric Aurier and Sylvain Lemêtre within the trio La Soustraction des Fleurs, the Bela quartet, the Gmea d'Albi for two state commissions, Jean Pierre Drouet, Jean Luc Faffchamps (Ensemble Ictus)... His last two recordings with the trio La Soustraction des Fleurs are published by Radio France on the Signature label, the third on Umlaut records.
Miquèu Montanaro
galoubet tambourine, flutes and voice
Christian Sebille
live electronics, composer, director of GMEM
Jean-François Vrod
violinist and composer
EN 2022
June 26 | Vasarely Foundation, Aix-en-Provence
EN 2021
July 27 | Festival de Chaillol, Church of the hamlet of St-Michel (05)
