"Think and then sing the first four notes that come to mind and let me record them.
Don't tune in, let your memory or intuition be the tuning fork.
Don't try again. Just four notes.
Then stop."
Asking the musicians of the Dedalus ensemble about their relationship to intervals, Alessandro Bosetti asks each of them to sing four notes. Based on the resulting harmonic charter, he composed a Histoire sentimentale des intervalles for seven instruments, with microtonal writing and meticulous tuning, exploring a geography of musical pitches. Through free or synesthetic associations, the piece is built around the relationship between subjectivity, memory and harmony. It traces the emotional stratifications, memories and idiosyncrasies that make up the collective ear and musical sensibility of an ensemble.
A concert piece that brings into play ra-tional and irrational harmonic relationships, it plunges us into a dreamlike, subjective universe that allows listeners time to familiarize themselves with singular sonorities and to linger on the threshold between consonance and dissonance. The idea that harmony and intervals are the component of music closest to emotions, memories and unconscious associations is confirmed.
Piece awarded
by the French Ministry of Culture.
With the support of
GMEM
Coproduction
Théâtre Garonne (Toulouse)
Dedalus
ensemble associated with GMEA - Centre National de Création Musicale d'Albi-Tarn, is supported by DRAC Occitanie, Conseil Régional Occitanie, SACEM and SPEDIDAM.
The ensemble has also received support from the Institut Français, Fonds Diaphonique, FACE, Impuls Neue Musik, Occitanie en Scène and Maison de la Musique Contemporaine.
Alessandro Bosetti's work is based on the musicality of voice, language and languages. He explores the border between spoken language and music.
Ensemble Dedalus
Musical ensemble
Founded in 1996 by Didier Aschour, Dedalus is a Toulouse-based musical ensemble associated with the GMEA - Centre National de Création Musicale d'Albi-Tarn. A champion of free instrumentation scores, Dedalus is organized as a collective in which arrangements, orchestrations and interpretations are worked out in common.Its repertoire ranges from minimalist classics (Tom Johnson, Philip Glass...) to commissions for composers and re-creations by unclassifiable artists (Moondog, Brian Eno...).Defying conventional categories, the ensemble performs music that is conceptual and sensitive, radical and captivating, subtle and powerful.Dedalus performs in France, Europe and North America: Roulette (New York), Café Oto (London), Angelica (Bologna), Sacrum Profanum (Krakow), Philharmonie de Paris, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Bozar (Brussels), L'Auditori (Barcelona), Darmstädter Ferienkurse, Festival d'Automne à Paris...
Some fifteen critically acclaimed albums have been released on New World Record (US), Potlatch (FR), Brocoli (FR), Relative Pitch Records (US), Sub Rosa (BE) and Montagne Noire (FR).
Dedalus is supported by DRAC Occitanie, Conseil Régional Occitanie, SACEM and SPEDIDAM. The ensemble has also received support from the Institut Français, Fonds Diaphonique, FACE, Impuls Neue Musik, Occitanie en Scène and Maison de la Musique Contemporaine.
Friche la Belle de Mai (Petit Plateau)
41 Jobin Street13003
Marseille
DURATION
55 min.
MODULATIONRATES 5
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.
RATES FOR THE MODULATIONS SEASON
Modulations loyalty card €40*
Limited number of seats
*Gives access to all Modulations in the 24-25 season
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
Latecomers will not be admitted to the theater, as some shows - at the request of the artistic teams - do not tolerate late entries.
TICKETS FROM2 SEPT. 2024
Online: gmem-cncm.mapado.com
By e-mail: billetterie@gmem.org
On site: on the day of performance, half an hour before the show, subject to availability.
IN THE FRAMEWORK OF MODULATIONS
What are Modulations?
Concerts, performances, regular events...
In other words, a season organized by the GMEM.
1st semester dates:
17/09 - 15/10 - 19/11 - 8/12 - 17/12
Alessandro Bosetti
composition
Ensemble Dedalus:
Didier Aschour
guitar
Amélie Berson
flute and keyboard
Cyprien Busolini
viola
Éric Chalan
double bass
Thierry Madiot
bass trombone
Christian Pruvost
trumpet
Deborah Walker
cello