Residency for the creation and recording of a mixed piece.
This mixed electronic, piano and flute work is a sonic metaphor for the complex relationship we have with technology. Between fascination, alienation and loss of control, it questions our ability to remain masters of our destiny in a world increasingly dominated by autonomous systems.
Plunged into a dystopian universe and opened up by the words of visionary writer William Gibson, the piece fashions a space where boundaries are erased, giving way to a hybridization of sound materials. Acoustic motifs fragment, suspend and fade, only to be reborn in dehumanized forms.
The instrumental gesture dissolves into a gradual granularity, as if the sounds themselves were losing their anchorage, traversing increasingly abstract spaces. The sonic progression follows a line of flight, a drift where landmarks are gradually diluted in an indecipherable, impalpable matrix.
Silences, sudden interruptions and recurring distortions punctuate this quest for sound, creating a landscape where listening is solicited and disturbed. This interplay of erasures and surges forms a metaphor for a world in the throes of transformation, where technology seems to be gradually replacing the organic, replacing the authentic with simulated replicas. Humanity can dissolve and alter, sliding slowly towards the bench of the replaced.
This creation is an abstract reflection on the absorption of the living by the machine, on the transformation of the human essence into a flow of data. It questions the ability of music to transcend these tensions, to navigate between these intermediate spaces.
Support
Conservatoire Pierre Barbizet de Marseille - INSEAMM
Alexandre Ollivier (Whadat XP)
Born in Brest and based in Marseille since 2009, Alexandre Ollivier has released several electronic music EPs under various aliases and labels, before joining the electroacoustic curriculum at the Marseille Conservatoire in 2018. In the same year, he co-founded the Double Cosmos collective, organizing electronic evenings in alternative venues in Marseille.
Subsequently, he developed the electroacoustic and experimental sound project Whadat XP, which engages the listener's listening and imagination through various immersive experiences in quadraphonic, headphone or Acousmonium devices, and collaborates on various interdisciplinary projects (video, scenography, radio, short film, dance, installations, mixed piece...).
Sensitive to the ecological and political themes of the modern world, he composes various sound pieces questioning our relationship to work, society, the future and the "living".
After graduating from the Conservatoire in 2023, he co-founded the Acousmonium Chapelle Sonore, offering concerts of spatialized music (mixed music, ambient, techno), projected by some forty loudspeakers.
Perline Feurtey
Perline Feurtey, born in 1991, is a flutist and production administrator.
Classically trained, she obtained her DEM in flute in 2011 from the Belfort-Besançon Conservatories.
For several years, she played in ensembles: Besançon Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre d'harmonie de Montréal, Paris (La Sirène), chamber music ensemble (CRD de Belfort), Belfort Baroque Orchestra. She also practices choral singing with the Chœur et orchestre des grandes écoles de Paris.
In 2020, she discovered the practice of improvisation with Joëlle Léandre, and joined the jazz class at the Conservatoire du 15e arrondissement de Paris, under the direction of David Patrois. At the same time, she practices traditional Mediterranean music repertoires (Italy, Greece).
She also works on the electronic treatment of her instrumentarium (use of effects, practice of the Sylphyo, electronic wind instrument...) and collaborates with 3 other musicians on the electronic arrangement of traditional Greek rebetiko music with the Levantiko group.
In parallel with her musical training and research, she teaches the transverse flute (at the Château-Landon center of the Mairie de Paris, private lessons) and is a production management consultant in the field of improvised music, jazz, contemporary music and contemporary dance.
Louise Balalas Pitous
Louise Balalas Pitous is a young pianist who trained and graduated from the Marseille Conservatoire for over 10 years with Christine Généraux. She then continued her training in Shani Di Luka's class of excellence at the Académie de Monaco.
In addition to piano, she obtained a diploma in image composition from the Marseille Conservatory in Pierre-Adrien Charpy's class, where she also studied electroacoustics, piano accompaniment and composition.
She evolves in a universe blending all the arts, such as dance, theater, cinema and the plastic arts, and combines the classical repertoire with other periods and musical styles, in the belief that the very essence of art lies in the inseparable nature of all creative disciplines.
composer (electronics, realtime)
Perline Feurtey
performer (flute)
Louise Balalas
performer (piano)