"Timbre that is no longer measurable by hearing. As if the sound that surpasses us on all sides were the space that matures."
- Rainer Maria Rilke, Distant Song
Auscúltare is a mixed work for two voices and electronics.
Synthesized sounds, carried by four directional loudspeakers, unfold invisible landscapes, revealing acoustic space as a new listening terrain.
The composition explores the links between the human voice and synthesized sounds. Singing complements and extends electronic sounds in a mimetic relationship. The superimposition of live voices and projected sounds gives rise to an encounter where each extends, reflects and harmonizes in a play of unheard-of timbres. These elements extend, respond and harmonize, creating an unsuspected universe.
Delegated production
GMEM
Commande d'État
for the writing of original musical works 2022 by GMEM
Coproduction
Mujō and D.D.A Contemporary Art
Support
Sacem ; DICRéAM 2021 ; DRAC ; Région SUD ; Maison de la Musique Contemporaine
Creation residencies
VOCE - CNCM (Pigna, Corsica) and GMEM
Born in Annecy in 1982. After studying music, notably clarinet and drums, he discovered the music of Pierre Schaeffer. A field of possibilities opens up as much with electronic tools as with traditional instruments.
Raphaële Kennedy
soprano
A soloist and polyphonist, Raphaële Kennedy devotes her artistic life to the interpretation of early music and the creation of contemporary works, with the same demand to draw out the palpitation of meaning and the same desire to convey emotion.
First recognized with Jordi Savall, François Lazarevitch and Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien, Jean-Marc Aymes and Concerto soave, Guido Balestracci and L'Amoroso, Jean Tubéry and La Fenice, A Sei Voci, the European ensemble William Byrd, Les Paladins, Le Poème Harmonique, Les Demoiselles de Saint-Cyr..., she appears at major festivals and on numerous recordings dedicated to early music.
She has also become a benchmark in contemporary creation, performing in internationally renowned concert halls and festivals. The dedicatee of numerous works and working closely with composers and electroacousticians, she is notably the voice of visual concerts by Kaija Saariaho and Jean-Baptiste Barrière, and the heroine of Philippe Leroux's opera L'Annonce faite à Marie, the title role in Laurent Cuniot's opera L'Enfant inouï, Pierre-Adrien Charpy's preferred interpreter, and in demand by Robert Pascal, Mauro Lanza, Gianvincenzo Cresta, Matteo Franceschini, Ben Foskett, Loïse Bulot and Bertrand Wolff.
A specialist in recitals for solo voice and electronics, she is also a regular guest artist with the ensembles tm+ (Laurent Cuniot), Multilatérale and Les Métaboles (Léo Warynski), Ars Nova (Benoît Sitzia) and Regards. She was a permanent member of Solistes XXI (Rachid Safir).
She is artistic director of Da Pacem, a company dedicated to early music, contemporary creation and cultural dialogue, founded with composer Pierre-Adrien Charpy. It is within this framework - from duos to small ensembles and multidisciplinary or multimedia performances - that she freely bases her work on sensuality, theatricality and rhetoric. She thus favors the embodied transparency of the voice, the accuracy of style, the brilliance that emerges from the angle of the word, and the declamatory gesture that makes music the amplification of speech.
She has made some forty recordings, and in 2016, with composer Pierre-Adrien Charpy and video photographer Isabelle Françaix, founded the Avec musical and visual collection for the Cypres label.
Isabelle Deproit
contralto, soloist
Trained as a pianist, Isabelle Deproit completed her musical studies at the Lyon Conservatoire, where she first won a medal in this discipline, then a first prize in accompaniment. She also obtained a degree in musicology from the University of Lyon II, and trained as a choral conductor at the ENM in Villeurbanne. At the same time, she studied singing with Cécile de Boever, Mireille Deguy and Elène Golgevit, and joined a number of ensembles including Spirito (Nicole Corti), the Solistes de Lyon (Bernard Tétu) and the Six Voix Solistes de Résonance Contemporaine (Alain Goudard), Calliope, Voix de femmes (Régine Théodoresco), Solistes XXI (Rachid Safir), the Mora Vocis ensemble and the 4 anima quartet, with whom she records several discs and performs regularly in France and abroad (Italy, Canada, Hong Kong...).).
She is also a soloist in various operas and oratorios (Miss Bagott in Britten's Le petit ramoneur , La Colère in Rameau's Les éléments réunis , Orphée in Guilhem Lacroux's La nuit des temps modernes ...) as well as a singer/actress and improviser in musical theater pieces (Compagnie Abribus, Collectif Arts Mobiles, Compagnie Amadeus rocket...).
Her love of contemporary music, and particularly of new music, has led her to collaborate with composers such as Kaija Saariaho, Lucien Guérinel, Sophie Lacaze, Olivier Mellano and Bertrand Wolff... Exploring the link between the body in movement and the voice, she took part in the show Apnée with choreographer Yuval Pick (CCN de Rillieux-la-Pape) and runs workshops on this theme.
Guillaume Stagnaro
visual artist, teacher, researcher
Guillaume Stagnaro's protean work initiates dialogues with other creative actors (artists, musicians, theorists, etc.).
By developing algorithmic systems and writing, he explores the collaborative dimension and rethinks networked work, while escaping the egotistical behavior of the artist. Guillaume Stagnaro revisits notions of responsibility, compatibility and the ecology of thought, focusing his attention on new types of relationships. He collaborates with artists such as Saâdane Afif, Nicolas Moulin, Marie Reinert, Francis Alÿs, Eric Baudelaire, Félix Blume... - stagnaro.net
Alexandre Martre
lighting designer
Born and raised in Marseilles for 25 years, Alexandre Martre's career has been driven by a desire for a variety of human and artistic experiences.
Since then, he has enjoyed long-standing collaborations and regularly initiates new ones with companies and venues in contemporary dance, theater, opera and experimental music, including Alexandra Tobelaim, Kelemenis & Cie, Concerto Soave and GMEM.
He is also a lighting director, general director, technical director and trainer, in France and abroad. He took part in the creation of Klap - Maison pour la danse and is currently collaborating on the creation of the new CDN de Thionville.
Opéra de Reims (51)
1 rue de Vesle51100
Reims
RATES
Full 10€
Reduced 5
DURATION
42 min.
Bertrand Wolff
composition
Raphaële Kennedy
soprano
Isabelle Deproit
contralto
Guillaume Stagnaro
robotics design
Alexandre Martre
light creation and general management