Le chant des cimes - GMEM - Centre national de création musicale de Marseille

As part of the Aujourd'hui Les Musiques Festival, Chaillol (05)

After a three-year residency in the Hautes-Alpes, Christian Sebille presents Le chant des cimes, the fruit of a meticulous collection of sounds from this mountainous region. An ice hockey match, a stroll punctuated by the voice of Hervé Cortot, birdsong, the tinkling of chimes and bells... guided the composer's journey through the valleys of Champsaur and Valgaudemar.

Like the romantic musicians, but armed with his computerized lutherie, the composer celebrates the living, inhabited mountain through an immersive sound fresco. He virtuosically paints a symphony that brings to life the landscape, the murmurs of rivers and the echoes of valleys, plunging the audience into the heart of an unprecedented poetic journey.

The audience is invited to take its place at the heart of a loudspeaker orchestra (acousmonium). Gradually, the first sounds emerge and unfold in space, subtle and unheard-of. A space of sound opens up and develops, a fiction of enveloping sounds. Listening without seeing: this is the suggestion of acousmatics, the intuition of Pierre Schaeffer, its illustrious discoverer.

Mentions

In partnership with the Festival de l'Alpage organized by the Communauté de communes du Champsaur-Valgaudemar

As part of Chaillol's Aujourd'hui les Musiques Festival

Commission
L'Espace Culturel de Chaillol

Co-produced by
GMEM ; L'Espace Culturel de Chaillol

Acknowledgements
Hervé Cortot; Guillaume Lebaudy

Biography(s)

Christian Sebille

Composer

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.

Location

Church of the hamlet of St-Michel (05)

05260
Saint-Michel-de-Chaillol

The song of the peaks

Christian Sebille

Alpine electroacoustic poem

Fri. July 21, 2023 | 9:00 pm Church of the hamlet of St-Michel (05)

RATES
Support 20€
Full 12€
Reduced 8€
Access 5€
-12 years 0€

Distribution

Christian Sebille
composer

Tito Loria
acoustic diffusion

Vivien Trelcat
computer development and artistic consulting

With the participation of the musicians
Jean-François Vrod, Miquèu Montanaro

Useful links

Christian Sebille "Le chant des cimes", Festival de Chaillol - July 21, 2023 at 9:00 pm "Les conversations impromptues #2", Festival de Chaillol, July 22, 2023 at 11:00 am Video clip during residency at GMEM