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The string quartet (of which Haydn is the genre's "founding father") has enjoyed an exceptional aura from the Age of Enlightenment to the present day. From Beethoven to Bartók, then Ligeti, Ferneyhough or Posadas today, the dialogue of four equal voices has always been the ultimate test for a composer.

Today, the contribution of electronics is opening up an unhoped-for field of possibilities for a new generation of musicians. In memory of Italian composer Fausto Romitelli, Mauro Lanza's The 1987 Max Headroom Broadcast Incident is a tribute to obsolete or soon-to-be obsolete technologies. 

Ashley Fure's Anima represents the quest for the blood of the electric, the breath of the digital... Like stethoscopes listening to the body's secrets, the performers move transducers from one part of their instruments to another, which in turn become loudspeakers.

In Philipp Maintz's Geubteste Ferne, it is the heterogeneity of each instrument that questions the composer. How can we maintain our open-mindedness and curiosity in the face of an unexpected object, understand its origins and qualities, and link it to our "knowledge"? 

Oscar Strasnoy's Ghost stories blends the voices of famous authors with the sounds of instruments. Like geniuses encased in lamps, Perec, Calvino and Borges come to speak to us as if they were still alive.

Four pieces that, through the use of electronics and other means, shift the way the string quartet is represented.

A meeting with Ashley Fure and Mauro Lanza will take place before the concert.

Mentions
Biography(s)
Location
New Works
Quatuor Diotima, Ashley Fure, Mauro Lanza
The Musics
Concert
Mon. May 15, 2017 | 8:00 pm Friche la Belle de Mai (Grand Plateau)

DURATION
1h10

RATES
Full €10
Reduced €8
Pass €5

Distribution

Quatuor Diotima
string quartet

Charles Bascou
computer music production GMEM

Manuel Poletti
computer music production Ircam

Vincent Isnard
computer music production Ircam

Jérémie Bourgogne
Ircam sound engineer





WORKS OF

Mauro Lanza
The 1987 Max Headroom Broadcast Incident - 2017

Ashley Fure
Anima - 2017

Oscar Strasnoy
Ghost Stories - 2016

Philipp Maintz
Second Quartet (Dem fluß zuhören) - 2017

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