Two workshops on improvisation with Isabelle Duthoit and Angélica Castelló, culminating in a performance at the end (not open to the public).
Improvised music and electronic devices workshop
withAngélica Castelló
This workshop offers an immersion in improvised music practices through the use of electronic devices: computers, DIY instruments, effects pedals, sound toys, repurposed microphones, and other electro-acoustic tools.
Participants explore the possibilities of these devices to produce, transform, and develop sound in real time, paying particular attention to the specificities of each instrument, including their responsiveness and latency.
The workshop emphasizes the relationship between the performer and their device, which is considered a simple and adaptable instrument in its own right that can be integrated into a collective practice.
This workshop is open to anyone with an electronic device, including amplified instruments.
Acoustic improvisation workshop
with Isabelle Duthoit
This workshop offers a collective instrumental and vocal improvisation session, mainly acoustic. It allows participants to explore group improvisation techniques, with an emphasis on listening, responding, and extending the motifs proposed by other participants. Guided by musician and improviser Isabelle Duthoit, participants receive advice aimed at enriching their practice and developing creativity and collective cohesion.
Presentation of the two workshops: mixed music
During the presentation, the two groups meet and improvise together to demonstrate the different techniques learned during the workshops.
Angélica Castelló
Composer, sound artist
Born in 1972, Angélica Castelló studied music in Mexico City, her hometown, before continuing her studies in Europe. Now based in Vienna, Austria, she composes and improvises using cassettes, radios, electronics, and a contrabass Paetzold flute. With a growing interest in electroacoustic composition and the recording of natural phenomena, she traveled to the far north for her latest composition, "Sonic Blue," to listen to the ice and the whales.
Her music is released on labels such as Mosz, Instertellar Records, Orlando Records, Mikroton Recordings, Monotype Records, and she works or has worked with a number of composers, including Hilda Paredes, Daniel de la Cuesta, Katharina Klement, Burkhard Stangl, and Jorge Sánchez-Chiong.
Isabelle Duthoit
Clarinetist
Born in 1970 and classically trained, Isabelle Duthoit turned her attention to contemporary music at a very early age. She played contemporary music while working with various ensembles such as the Atelier Instrumental du XX° siècle directed by Gilbert Amy, the Ensemble Intercontemporain, and then the ensemble L'Itinéraire, meeting many composers (G. Aperghis, K. Huber, G. Amy, K. Toeplitz, D. D'Adamo, V. Globokar, G. Crumb, P. Dussapin, and others). She then found her niche in the world of free improvisation. In 1997, she joined forces with David Chiesa and Laurent Dailleau in triolid and created Rose and stomach, a quartet of clarinets and other instruments, with Xavier Charles, Jacques Di Donato, and Tim Hodgkinson. Since 2005, she has been playing with 4 walls + 2 (Phil Minton, Veryan Weston, Mickaël Vatcher, Luc Ex, Gail Brand).
She has developed a unique and highly personal singing technique, drawing on primitive sounds and cries, sounds that predate language, and employing an extremely wide range and dynamics. Her training as an instrumentalist has led her to use her voice more as an instrument than for lyrical singing, seeking out sounds and effects that lie far outside the bounds of conventional vocal practice.
GMEM (Friche la Belle de Mai)
41 Jobin Street13003
Marseille
Workshop duration
From 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Restitution (not open to the public)
At 6:00 p.m.
For students, amateurs, and more
Musical prerequisites required
(instrumental or electronic practice—bring your instrument or device)
Registration open (until Thursday, March 19):
marion.camaly@gmem.org
Angélica Castelló
guest artist, improvised and electronic music
Isabelle Duthoit
, guest artist