The inspiration behind this concert, NYX is a radical improvisation trio (Sophie Agnel*, Angélica Castelló, Isabelle Duthoit) discovered during a concert at the ArtActs festival in St Johann, Austria, and then on the program "À L'improviste" presented by Anne Montaron on France Musique.
For this concert on Sunday, March 22, these leading improvisers of European experimental music will perform as a duo. Here, there are no concessions; we are far from obvious or consensual music, with the soundscape and narrative remaining constantly elusive.
If we had to describe NYX's music in words, we could say that it has a powerful evocative quality, somewhere between a dark fairy tale and a new form of improvised music, orchestrated in a disturbing and profound way.
*For health reasons, Sophie Agnel will not be able to join us...
Coproduction
Ville de Marseille - Opéra
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, electronic devices, 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.
Opéra de Marseille (Foyer Ernest Reyer)
2, rue Molière13001
Marseille
Duration
approx. 1h00
Prices per concert
Full: 8€
Reduced: 6€*
*Young people aged 12-25, students, jobseekers, social security recipients, intermittent workers, senior citizens aged 65 and over - on presentation of proof.
Free admission for Modulations loyalty card holders (by reservation only)
Practical information
Latecomers will not be admitted to the concert hall, as some shows - at the request of the artistic teams - do not tolerate late entry.
Ticketing
Online: gmem-cncm.mapado.com
By e-mail: billetterie@gmem.org
As part of Modulations
What are Modulations?
Concerts, performances, regular events...
In other words, a season organized by the GMEM.
2nd semester dates:
20/01/26- 17/02 - 17/03 - 22/03 - 21/04 - 10/05
Angélica Castelló
s & flutes
Isabelle Duthoit
voice & clarinet