Electro-Aimant was born of an unlikely encounter between a musician committed to the renewal of traditional music and a composer who develops his practice through improvisation, with computerized lutherie. Oral tradition, the practice of improvisation, electroacoustic music and real-time transformation come together to invent, in the time of the concert, a language built between tradition and novelty, history and immediacy.
Christian Sebille and Miquèu Montanaro push the limits of the galoubets-tambourins, in a ceaseless interplay between the raw material of sound and its transformation. Deconstruction and reconstruction combine to create a dynamic narrative that is always surprising. The galoubet-tambourin, considered traditional and popular, is a highly technical instrument, somewhere between a flute with very precise melodies and a tambourine that performs two functions: rhythmic and drone. Christian Sebille's computers excavate this profusion of sounds to expose an unprecedented dialogue between these two radically different musical techniques. The two musicians have broken away from their usual habits to dare an unprecedented joust.
By diverting their practices and using their own lutherie, they play with their cultural contributions to extract extravagant volutes of sound and invent a new form of dialogue.
Delegated production
GMEM - Centre national de création musicale
Coproduction
Compagnie Montanaro
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).
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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.
Narancsliget (Hungary)
Christian Sebille
electronic
Miquèu Montanaro
galoubet-tambourine flutes