Hervé Birolini continues to ride lightning, sounds and images, real or dreamed. Presented as a piece at the crossroads of radio drama, live electronic music and futuristic cinema, Tesla plunges us into the mind of inventor and engineer Nikola Tesla.
Like this genius who, all his life, evolved between the infinite possibilities of electrical energy, Tesla summons sounds, devices but also poetry. Not only to tell the story of the man, but to try to imagine the story of his thoughts. For this, Hervé Birolini called upon the words of the author Dominique Petitgand, whose text constitutes here a sound material in its own right.
On stage, the controlled deflagrations produced by a field of Tesla coils, the electric arc speakers, the samples of electrical phenomena, the recorded and modified voices join this dreamlike world where sound and light become almost palpable.
Hervé Birolini proves once again that the human being is at the heart of his universe, far from being inhabited only by technological presences.
Coproduction
Cité Musicale-Metz ; Césaré - CNCM (Reims) ; La Muse en Circuit - CNCM (Alfortville) ; éole - studio de création musicale (Blagnac)
Support
DRAC Grand Est - aid for structuring 20-21 and 22-23; Région Grand Est; City of Nancy - Residency program at the Théâtre de Mon Désert
Residences
Césaré - CNCM (Reims) ; CCAM - Scène Nationale de Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy ; éole - studio de création musicale (Blagnac) ; NEST - CDN transfrontalier de Thionville-Grand Est
Electronic developments
Interface-Z
In partnership with the Friche la Belle de Mai
Hervé Birolini
musical artist
Hervé Birolini explores all areas of sound. From concert pieces to installations, from electroacoustic performances to stage or film music, radio art or mixed music, his fields of experimentation enrich each other and constantly question his position as a composer.
Of electronic essence, his music is elaborated from real materials, concrete or instrumental, but also from sound objects produced by a computerized lutherie, personalized and in perpetual reinvention. This technology present in his works is both a tool and a way to question the contemporary production of the sensitive. His taste for live performance, and more particularly his links with dance, leads him to produce musical pieces that also engage space, the body, gesture and scenography.
His music rubs shoulders with electronic, concrete, experimental and contemporary music in their most open sense.
His productions have been presented in numerous festivals in France and abroad, such as: AKOUSMA, Live at CIRMMT, Signal and Noise (Canada), Présence électronique, Reevox-GMEM, Electricity, Futura, Entre cour et jardins, Musique Action (France), Archipel (Switzerland). - hervebirolini.com
François Donato
musical artist
Initially self-taught, he deepened his musical knowledge at the University of Pau, the Conservatory of Gennevilliers and the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Lyon. Member of the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (Paris) from 1991 to 2005, of the collective of composers éole (Toulouse) from 2005 to 2017. Teacher at the University of Toulouse le Mirail, department of Plastic Arts Applied Arts on the techniques of sound and interactivity from 2007 to 2012.
He works today as an independent artist. His creative work develops around sound and digital arts, from musique concrète to interactive sound and audiovisual installations and radio projects.
He has received commissions from the G.R.M., the DAAD in Berlin, the studio éole, the Ministry of Culture... He regularly collaborates with the performing arts (theater and dance), and the visual arts (interactive installations and audio performances), notably within the framework of the binomial Imaginary Systems created with the visual artist Golnaz Behrouzia. For several years, he has also been developing a live electronic performance with the composer Hervé Birolini(Arrays, Tesla) and is working on a cycle of interactive multimedia installations Time Leaks designed for specific places. - struzz.com
Dominique Petitgand
musical artist
Born in 1965 in Laxou (France), Dominique Petitgand lives and works in Paris and Nancy. He is represented by the gallery gb agency (Paris) for his installations and by the label Ici, d'ailleurs (Nancy) for some of his records.
Since 1992, Dominique Petitgand has been creating sound works, where voices, noises, musical atmospheres and silences build, through editing, micro-universes where ambiguity permanently remains between a principle of reality and a projection in a possible fiction, out of context and timeless.
He diffuses his works during exhibitions, in the form of sound installations in which the sound diffusion device, adapted to the particularity of the invested spaces as well as to the story itself, proposes a plural and open experience (installations).
He also presents his works on discs and in books (editions), on the radio, online and during listening sessions-sound performances in theaters or in the open air (broadcasts).
He regularly shows his work in France and abroad in museums, art centers, galleries, theaters or during festivals. Several of his works are present in public and private collections. He has published a dozen records and several books and monographs on his practice of listening and sound creation. - dominiquepetitgand.art
Friche la Belle de Mai (Petit Plateau)
41 Jobin Street13003
Marseille
DURATION
40 min.
Hervé Birolini
artistic direction and music
François Donato
music
Dominique Petitgand
original booklet
Denis Rey
recorded voice
Floxel Barbelin
general management