Roland Auzet, Médéric Collignon, Pierre Jodlowski and Wilfried Wendling explore the paths of improvised music, jazz and electronic music in an exceptional encounter between four great contemporary artists.
A surprising quartet combining the learned, the improvised and the instinctive, in multiple and complex directions, constructing free and spontaneous listening trajectories, always placed under the sign of great connivance.
It's a question of free spaces between live video and written and improvised music, acoustic and electric, a panel of percussion instruments jostled by various instruments or electronic sounds.
So many avenues, so many energies, so many sources, born of the vitality of a daring collaboration.
Executive productions
GMEM - Centre national de création musicale
Premiere
November 16, 2024 - Festival Aujourd'hui Musiques, Perpignan (66)
Production
ACT OPUS
Coproduction
La Muse en Circuit, Centre national de création musicale
Roland Auzet
Composer, percussionist
Roland Auzet is a polymorphous artist. Trained at several national conservatories in France and abroad, and a student in the composition program at Ircam, he has been developing a professional career around creation for many years.
With his company ACTOpus, he has created some forty scenic and musical works and performances, hybridizing theater and music, and working with the codes of theatrical, operatic and musical representation.
A performer, he has worked with luthier Robert Hébrard to invent multiple instruments and sound objects, which have been at the heart of numerous creations.
Médéric Collignon
Cornet player, flugelhorn player and vocalist
He blends all the music that has influenced him (funk, jazz-rock...) with his own modern take on jazz. He mixes his mastery of the cornet à pistons, flugelhorn and trumpet with vocal improvisations akin to scat and beatboxing.
He has been a member of the ONJ (Orchestre National de Jazz), Fred Pallem's Sacre du Tympan and Andy Elmer's MegaOctet.
He has also formed the Septik septet and, more recently, the Jus de Bocse quartet.
Pierre Jodlowski
Composer, performer and multimedia artist
Pierre Jodlowski's music is often marked by high density, is at the crossroads of acoustic and electric sound, and is characterized by a dramatic and political anchoring.
Today, his work is deployed in many fields: films, interactive installations, stage direction. He defines his music as an active process at both the physical level (musical gestures, energy and space) and the psychological level (relationship with memory and the visual dimension of sound).
Alongside his compositions, he also performs on various stages (experimental, jazz, electronic), solo or with other artists.
Wilfried Wendling
Composer
Wilfried Wendling grew up between Antoine Vitez's Chaillot and Patrice Chéreau's Amandiers.
He studied jazz, then writing, and, keen on new technologies, he developed digital tools for his compositions, which he soon extended to light and video to better sculpt the plasticity of his creations, their immersive and hybrid character, at the crossroads of literature, electronics and video: Hamlet with Serge Merlin (2017), Fake (2017) and News (2024), performances under headphones in public spaces, Erreurs salvatrices after Heiner Müller (2021), Imaginarium (2021), and Kafka : Fiches, a musical book published this year.
Friche la Belle de Mai (Petit Plateau)
41 Jobin Street13003
Marseille
DURATION
approx. 1h
PRICE PER PER PERFORMANCE
Full: 8€
Reduced: 6€*
*Young people aged 12-25, students, jobseekers, people on minimum social benefits, intermittent workers, seniors aged 65 and over - with proof of age.
Free admission for loyalty card holders Modulations (by reservation only)
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
Latecomers will not be admitted to the auditorium, as some shows - at the request of the artistic teams - do not tolerate late entries.
TICKETS FROM 1/09/25
Online: gmem-cncm.mapado.com
By e-mail: billetterie@gmem.org
WITHIN THE MODULATIONS
What are the Modulations?
Concerts, performances, regular events...
In other words, a season organized by the GMEM.
1st semester dates:
16/09/25- 21/10 - 18/11 - 14/12 - 16/12
2nd semester dates:
20/01/26- 17/02 - 17/03 - 22/03 - 14/04 - 10/05
Roland Auzet
percussion
Médéric Collignon
voice, cornet, saxophone
Pierre Jodlowski
electronics
Wilfried Wendling
live video