The residency at the GMEM will be devoted to the writing of electroacoustic pieces - composed from the sound background collected at the Abbey of Noirlac - and to their restitution in multidiffusion.
This creation by composer Bruno Allary, composed as part of the Futurs de l'écrit, will question the moment (in 1939) during which the Abbey of Noirlac sheltered Spanish refugees fleeing Franco's army. The Hispanic singer Sylvie Paz and the sound designer Fred Braye form the musical core of this project with Bruno Allary. Alongside them, students from a class in Saint-Amand perform electroacoustic pieces inspired by the bocage, and previously composed at the GMEM and in the Abbey's studios. Above, the sound testimonies of young refugees of today (currently welcomed in Bourges by the association of solidarity Médina) are diffused, echoing the testimonies from the past.
Coproduction
l'Abbaye de Noirlac, Centre Culturel de Rencontre pour les Futurs de l'écrit, and MCE Productions (L'éolienne, Marseille)
Partnership
GMEM - Centre national de création musicale, Marseille
Bruno Allary
Composer
From his early immersion in the distant worlds of jazz and flamenco guitar, Bruno Allary draws the singularity of his creative language. This double musical apprenticeship, woven from contrasting heritages and knowledge, nourishes his vibrant taste for the diverse, the multiple, the composed. Alongside the instrumentalist, the creation of the Compagnie Rassegna (2000) reveals the assembler and the man of projects. He endeavors to bring to life the diversity of popular music of the Mediterranean, by tracking down the passages, echoes and resonances, in space and in time. In the hollow of this approach, like an essential and discreet thread, we read the patient exploration of an aesthetic of the in-between, a particular sensitivity to the passages, to the interstices, to the zones of turbulence - between shadow and light, modal and tonal, acoustic and electric - and the setting in tension of these antagonistic poles as an engine of creation.
Sylvie Paz
Singer, author and composer
Sylvie Paz draws her inspiration from her Andalusian and Mediterranean origins. She forges her voice with the traditions of these territories. She has been a member of the Compagnie Rassegna since 2012.
Outside the company, she also pursues several creations. She also collaborates and writes in a ragingly feminine work, "La Nuit d'Antigone", within the collective Sublimes Portes (large window on the feminine writings engaged in the Mediterranean) under the impulse of the creator Nil Deniz. She is also part of the female vocal ensemble Les Dames de la Joliette and, with the singer and pianist Kalliroi Raouzeou, she forms the duo entitled Zoppa, around Greco-Hispanic compositions.
Fred Braye
Sound engineer, electronic music composer and developer of interactive tools
Frédéric Braye composes electronic music for stage, image or sound installations. Graduated in 1994, he has been working since then in the fields of live and studio sound. But the creation attracts him more and more; he takes action in 2000 with fritkot, his first electronic music project. After training, he then developed his creative projects through the sound installations le mur du son or zebra4, his interactive instrument modò, he now composes music for performance and dance.
Bruno Allary
artistic direction, composition
Sylvie Paz
singing and percussion
Fred Braye
sound creation
CM1 students from Les Buissonets school (Saint-Amand-Montrond)
The young unaccompanied minors of the Medina association (Bourges)
Delphine Bole
in charge of the writing workshops
Jean-Christophe Désert
composer, in charge of teaching at the Noirlac studios