Concerts
past and forthcoming live performances
10.02.2012
Performance of Le lieu d’un autre centre, with Frédéric Blondy at Aftersquat 59 Rivoli, Paris
Photo by Marie-Eve Bouillon
Fourth performance of the piece “le lieu d’un autre centre”, with Diemo Schwarz (live corpus-based concatenative synthesis) and Frédéric Blondy (bowed and prepared piano) at the weirdly titled festival “Le Classique c’est pour les Vieux“, in aftersquat 59 Rivoli, Paris.
See this post for more info and this page for an audio excerpt.
Presentation of Blanc Brut by Cie. Atmen, Étoile du Nord, Paris
Work-in-progress presentation of Intérieur Crème, Acte II: Blanc Brut by choreographer Françoise Tartinville, Cie. Atmen, music by Frédéric Blondy and Diemo Schwarz, at the festival Les turbulents:
Les turbulents, c’est un accompagnement de 3 jeunes chorégraphes que l’équipe de L’étoile du nord, en partenariat avec Arcadi, va suivre tout au long de la saison. Nous vous proposons de découvrir le processus de création de ces trois projets chorégraphiques dans une version en cours de fabrication ou terminée. Nous clôturerons ce programme avec le parrain de cette soirée, le chorégraphe Frédéric Werlé.
Performance of Le lieu d’un autre centre, with Frédéric Blondy in Lausanne
Photo by Greg Clement
Third performance of the piece “le lieu d’un autre centre”, with Diemo Schwarz (live corpus-based concatenative synthesis) and Frédéric Blondy (bowed and prepared piano) at the Les Urbaines festival, théâtre 2.21, Lausanne, Switzerland.
See this post for more info and this page for an audio excerpt.
01.12.2011
Presentation and improvisation with Victoria Johnson, Malmö, Sweden
Presentation and performance at the international symposium (Re)Thinking Improvisation by Victoria Johnson (electric violin) and Diemo Schwarz (CataRT live corpus-based concatenative synthesis), at the Inter Arts Center, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden.
18.11.2011
Performance of Le lieu d’un autre centre, with Frédéric Blondy at The Warehouse, London
Photo by Marie-Ève Bouillon
Second performance of the piece “le lieu d’un autre centre”, with Diemo Schwarz (live corpus-based concatenative synthesis) and Frédéric Blondy (bowed and prepared piano) at The Warehouse, London, within the Spectrum Festival organised by Iancu Dumitrescu and Ana-Maria Avram. Other pieces in this festival are by Stephen O’Malley, Eran Sachs, Gol, Tim Hodgkinson, Steve Noble, Florian Hecker, Gyorgy Ligeti, John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Samon Takahashi, Iannis Xenakis.
See this post for more info and this page for an audio excerpt. Read the rest of this entry »
27.10.2011
Improvisation with Hans Leeuw at STEIM, Amsterdam
Conference and concert by Diemo Schwarz (live corpus-based concatenative synthesis) with Hans Leeuw (electrumpet).
Part of STEIM‘s HOTPOT LAB #18, where 4 student projects from this year’s HKU instrument design class will be presented.
21.10.2011
Premiere of Le lieu d’un autre centre, with Frédéric Blondy at St. Merri, Paris
First performance of the piece “le lieu d’un autre centre”, with Diemo Schwarz (live corpus-based concatenative synthesis) and Frédéric Blondy (bowed and prepared piano) at church St. Merri, Paris, in the series les rendez-vous contemporains.
See this post for more info and this page for an audio excerpt.
Also to be performed November 18, 2011 at Spectrum Festival, London.
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02.08.2011
Outprovisation — Improvisation with Live-Recorded Environmental Sound at ICMC, Huddersfield
ICMC 2011 Late Night Concert 2, Students’ Union, Huddersfield, UK
Outprovisation breaks the tyranny of the instant and fragments the unity of time and place, by improvising with unpredictable live streams from the vicinity of the concert venue: the bar, a park, the street, a shopping mall…
It enlarges at the same time the temporal horizon, the loci of presence, and the sonic space, doubling it by the abstract space of transformed sounds. Read the rest of this entry »
Suspended Beginnings with Victoria Johnson at NIME, Oslo
Improvisation concert at NIME 2011 by Victoria Johnson (electric violin) and Diemo Schwarz (CataRT live corpus-based concatenative synthesis), at Chateau Neuf, Oslo, Norway.
Photo by Bruno Zamborlin
25.05.2011
Concert at Gambetta Café, Paris
https://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=212285145470142
⚡EMMANUELLE GIBELLO / DIEMO SCHWARZ
comprovisation éléctronique
http://myownspace.fr/scenophonie
http://diemo.concatenative.net/
⚡PROJET PISCINE, en impro
http://www.myspace.com/projetpiscine
⚡FURIOUS GOLDEN SHOWER
Sex wet wave
http://www.myspace.com/thefuriousgoldenshower
furious article sur DISHES
http://www.dishesmag.fr/article-never-mind-the-bollocks-70703430.html
Montreal – Londres – Paris Conflux at Bouillon Belge, Paris
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=204813029555188&pending
Alex Bonney (Londres) – trompette et laptop
Pierre Alexandre Tremblay (Montréal) – guitare basse et laptop
avec quelques invités au fil de la soirée:
Sébastien Brun – machines
Diemo Schwarz – laptop
Nicolas Stephan – saxophone ténor
Jeanne Added – voix
Un concert guitare basse et trompette, tous deux augmentés de laptop. La musique est faite d’improvisations bruitistes et/ou mélodiques, timbrale et/ou lyriques, un voyage dans le son, comme une histoire partagée. Alex Bonney (trompette, Londres) et Pierre Alexandre Tremblay (guitare basse, Montréal) jouent ensemble depuis trois ans dans le groupe Splice (1er album LAB lancé ce weekend à Londres, concert enregistré par la BBC) et jouent avec ce quartet à Strasbourg le 24 mai… le duo est de passage à Paris le 23 mai.
Invités ad hoc: Nicolas Stephan (saxo) Diemo Schwarz (laptop) Sébastien Brun (machines, Lyon) et Jeanne Added.
23.05.2011
Radio interview and concert at Tapage Nocturne, France Musique
Sunday night will take place the radio transmission of Tapage Nocturne by Bruno Letort, featuring a performance of Emmanuelle Gibello‘s pieces Collision I–III, interpreted by Diemo Schwarz, and an interview around the project Je suis l’écho de l’ombre d’une ombre with Emmanuelle Gibello, Diemo Schwarz, Maurin Donneaud, Vincent Roudeaux.
The show is available as podcast!
01.05.2011
Concert with Dylan Ross, Forest Cafe, Edinburgh
Photo by Brittonie Fletcher
Dylan Ross (Ableton Live, e-guitar, hand-held pickup) + Diemo Schwarz (CataRT) with mutual live feeds at the Forest Cafe, Edinburgh. Organised by Stephen (Plastickfork).
25.04.2011
Concert with Edimpro, Edinburgh
Seven short improvisations with the fantastic free improvisation orchestra Edimpro in Alison House, University of Edinburgh. Eight musicians of refreshingly varied ages and backgrounds that know each other well and know how to listen! Instruments: piano x 2, drumset, snare drum, bass clarinet, saxophone, e-guitar, harp. Organised by Michael Edwards.
20.02.2011
Premières fois…, performance with Emmanuelle Gibello, Dan Digital, Le 96, Paris
Photo by Marie-Ève Bouillon
Improvisation in trio with Emmanuelle Gibello, Dan Charles Dahan.
Also performing: Emilie of Projet Piscine fame with her new solo project Djoew (piano/synthé/voix)
(Un demi projet piscine et un demi flat forme = 1 même personne)
Free entry, starts at 18h30 at
Le 96 café
96 bd de Charonne 75020
Métro Avron ou Alexandre Dumas
Concerts pile à 19h et 19h30
Bière à 2 euros
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=142338352497536#!/event.php?eid=142338352497536
18.02.2011
Laïka est morte pour l’Europe at the Saint-Merri church, Paris, with Frédéric Blondy
Ciné-concert expérimental Laïka est morte pour l’Europe
Marion Delage de Luget et Benoît Géhanne, vidéos
Frédéric Blondy, piano et Diemo Schwarz, électronique
&
Daunik Lazro, saxophone solo
http://rendezvouscontemporains.com/rdv/actualite.html
Using the films created by Marion Delage de Luget and Benoît Géhanne like a musical score, Diemo Schwarz and Frédéric Blondy composed pieces that follow a trajectory, a predetermined evolution, within which the playing thrives freely, based on listening to the produced sound and to the resonance with the performance space.
Photo by Marie-Ève Bouillon
25.01.2011
Solo and duo live Performance with Victoria Johnson at Sound of Mu, Oslo, Norway
Concert evening with solo works by Diemo Schwarz and violinist Victoria Johnson, and an improvised duo at Sound of Mu club/gallery.
See this video of the first appearance of iPad wiggling as an expressive performance instrument.
Concert/conference at /dev/art, with Vincent Rioux
Presentations, discussions, and a concert of Diemo Schwarz and Vincent Rioux about sample manipulation at /dev/art, BlackBoxe, Paris 18e.
Program to be finalised.
Rencontres, discussions et échanges entre artistes et développeurs
utilisant les nouvelles technologies de programmation (arts
numériques, hacking, performances, etc.).
BlackBoxe (Theatre de Verre)
17 rue de la Chapelle / 75018 Paris
Metro ligne 12 / Station Marx Dormoy ou Porte de la Chapelle
03.12.2010
Soundioulou Cissokho, Roi de la Kora
17.11.2010
Les Coupeurs de Têtes live, Café de Paris
Du non-bruit au silence il n’y a qu’une feuille qu’il faut dérouler jusqu’à la souris qui cliquète ; du souffle au plectre il n’y a qu’une pédale sans délai tu végètes de la vie à la mort un souffle continu oublie ça et rallume ta télé”
Les Coupeurs de Têtes (Cyril Touzé guitare+effets, Diemo Schwarz CataRT+drums, Jac Pochat saxo+grelots)
et aussi Marco Liuni, Gilles Degottex, Pierre Lanchantin et Les Lutins Patates de l’Espace.
Dans le cadre des 6es Journées Jeunes Chercheurs en Audition, Acoustique musicale et Signal audio.