S’abriter dans les plis du vent by Frédéric Blondy, ensemble Le Balcon, Vincennes
Première of a piece by Frédéric Blondy for the ensemble Le Balcon with guest musician Diemo Schwarz (corpus-based concatenative synthesis) at the Auditorium Coeur de Ville in Vincennes
Santiago Diez Fischer, La Nuit aveugle, opéra de chambre (2013, création mondiale, commande du Balcon)
Frédéric Blondy, S’abriter dans les plis du vent, pour ensemble instrumental sonorisé + électronique (Diemo Schwarz)
ONCEIM plays Garden of Sounds, Saint-Merri, Paris
Concert of the Orchestre de Nouvelles Créations, Expérimentations et Improvisations Musicales (ONCEIM) at Les Rendez-vous Contemporains, Saint-Merri church.
Cela fera tout juste un an que ONCEIM donnait à Saint-Merri sont premier concert. La pièce créée ce soir-là marquait la toute première étape du travail de l’orchestre mais surtout la première tentative de faire face à l’inconnu.
23.05.2013
Festival Jet Lag, Etoile du Nord, Paris
Three days of Carte blanche for choreographer Françoise Tartinville (Cie. Atmen) at theatre Etoile du Nord:
23.–25.5.2013 20h–22h30
Déambulations en intérieur brut, avec:
Marguerite Lantz : performance, arts plastiques (hall du théâtre)
Nicolas Deletoille : théâtre (jardinet du Théâtre)
Polder (Atmen, musique Frédéric Blondy) : danse (public sur le plateau du théâtre)
Nathalie Collantes (musique Diemo Schwarz): danse performance (scène du théâtre) vendredi 24 mai
Sébastien Roux: concert (jeudi 23 mai)
ONCEIM (Frédéric Blondy): concert (vendredi 24 mai)
trio Les coupeurs de têtes (Jac Pochat, Cyril Touzé, Diemo Schwarz): concert (samedi 25 mai)
Installation sonore Le Choix de Diemo Schwarz et Ianis Lallemand
Vidéos de Marguerite Lantz (le vendredi 24 mai)
Oscar : suspension réalisée par Atmen (Marguerite Lantz, Françoise Tartinville)
PANDA project at Printemps des Laboratoires d’Aubervillers
PANDA mini-opera for non-musicians by Franck Leibovici and Diemo Schwarz at the Printemps des Laboratoires d’Aubervillers: Read the rest of this entry »
01.04.2013
2π4evR by Emmanuelle Gibello, Instants Chavirés, Montreuil
Concert by Emmanuelle Gibello, Olivier Guillerminet, Diemo Schwarz interpreting the piece 2π4evR by Emmanuelle Gibello on each performers’ own (software) instrument and Emmanuelle Gibello’s new spinning-top instrument called the Molf:
Chaque joueur a le choix de ses armes, il utilise ses propres machines, instruments et sons. Le tout est décontrôlé lors de batailles à la toupie sur Le Molf, la nouvelle machine imaginée par Emmanuelle.
26.02.2013
Presentation of Inner Space, *di*/zaïn #5, Divan du Monde
Christian Delécluse, soirée *di*/zaïn #5 : code… par soireesdizain
Radio show à l’improviste with ONCEIM, France Musique
Broadcast of the recording of the Orchestre de Nouvelles Créations, Expérimentations et Improvisations Musicales (ONCEIM) at improvised music show à l’improviste by Anne Montaron on France Musique national public radio.
Audio stream (available until 13.3.2013) at this page.
Podcast link.
31.01.2013
Concert at Noise=Noise, Unit 73a, London, UK
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Noise=Noise / nnnnn concert series organised by Ryan Jordan:
Concerts by Diemo Schwarz (live corpus-based concatenative synthesis) with Marco Donnarumma http://marcodonnarumma.com/ Terra Audio [NoNameSound] https://soundcloud.com/terra-audio/ Micahel Mykola Haleta http://mikehaleta.com/ Ryan Jordan http://ryanjordan.org/ |
Unit 73a, Regent Studios, 8 Andrew’s Road, Hackney, London, E8 4QN
29.01.2013
Improvisation with Sebastian Lexer, The Forum, Norwich, UK
Sonic Arts 71 “Architectural Music” concert by Diemo Schwarz (live corpus-based concatenative synthesis) and Sebastian Lexer (percussion + electronics) in Norwich. Also playing: Sound Kitchen, Sonic Arts Ensemble
Programmed to incorporate the spaces in the building as a feature of the performances, this event starts with electronically generated pieces being performed outside the building during the afternoon and leads to a performance inside the Atrium Space at 8pm. Artists from IRCAM and Birmingham’s new exciting electronic music scene will be diffusing scores, alongside the Sonic Arts Ensemble, led by international artist, Sebastian Lexer. Read the rest of this entry »
24.01.2013
Inner Space, Le Cube, Issy les Moulineaux
A la suite de sa résidence de création au Cube, Christian Delécluse présente au public Inner Space, sa dernière installation numérique coproduite par Le Cube et Arcadi.
Inner Space est une installation lumineuse et sonore qui interroge les processus de construction de nos perceptions à travers la constitution d’espaces sensibles en perpétuelle transformation, à l’intérieur d’un vaste volume de la taille d’une chambre à coucher standard (12 m²).
Ce travail offre une double expérience. Read the rest of this entry »
ONCEIM at à l’improviste radio show, France Musique
Orchestre de Nouvelles Créations, Expérimentations et Improvisations Musicales (ONCEIM) recording for improvised music show à l’improviste by Anne Montaron on France Musique national public radio.
Recording: 14.1.2013 19h, Studio 106
Broadcast: 11.2.2013 00h, radio France Musique
L’Orchestre National de Création, Expérimentation et d’Improvisation Musicale (ONCEIM) est un grand ensemble d’improvisateurs qui a pour ambition d’être à la fois un moteur de création et d’innovation musicale mais aussi une plate-forme artistique et humaine pouvant engendrer et fédérer de nouvelles initiatives. Read the rest of this entry »
31.12.2012
More Experimental Music Podcasts
Following in the series of essential listening podcasts or unmissable podcasts about the history of technology and music, here are more links to wonderful series of just plain interesting music:
TouchRadio
fantastic side-program to the excellent Touch label’s releases, no talking
http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/TouchPod/podcast.xml
Crónica
great ambient/electronica podcasts from the Crónica label, no talking
http://www.cronicaelectronica.org/?p=cronicaster
Bip-Hop Generation
downloadable radio show by Philippe Petit, very eclectic from acousmatic to noise rock, minimal talking (french).
http://www.jetfm.asso.fr/site/-Generation-BiP-HOp-.html
[EDIT: there is finally (or I finally found) an RSS link to subscribe to Bip Hop Generation as a real podcast!]
Electromania
Radio France program by GRM veterans David Jisse, Christian Zanési, Christophe Bourseiller, from acousmatic to electronica, trying to catch up with the current generation’s musical inventions, too much talking (french).
http://www.francemusique.fr/emission/electromania
28.11.2012
Ircam Live with duo Hans Leeuw / Diemo Schwarz at Gaîté Lyrique, Paris
The duo of Hans Leeuw (Electrumpet) / Diemo Schwarz (CataRT) has been chosen as one of 4 winners of the Ircam Forum call for performances (out of 85 submissions) and will be presented in concert:
also playing: Plaid (Warp), Lorenzo Bianchi, Benjamin Carey, Jean Lochard
Gaîté Lyrique, grande salle
3bis, rue Papin
75003 Paris
The duo between Hans Leeuw and Diemo Schwarz creates a dialectic between the age-old gesture of the musician and its digital transformation and critique, a pathway between the acoustic instrument and a recontextualising synthetic interaction at the heart of our times. The duo’s focus on expressive play with live sounds happens in two very different ways that happily blend together: Read the rest of this entry »
20.10.2012
Workshop and performance Blanc Brut with Cie. Atmen, Le Cube, Issy les Moulineaux
Workshop around the interactive scenography of the piece Blanc Brut with choreographer Françoise Tartinville, Cie. Atmen, and Diemo Schwarz, Saturday 20 October 2012, 14h – 17h
Performance of Blanc Brut, Sunday 21 October 2012, 15h
With Françoise Tartinville (conception & choreography)
Frédéric Blondy, Diemo Schwarz (original live music), Marguerite Lantz, Françoise Tartinville (scenography), Fabien Almakiewicz, Cyril Geeroms (dance), Boris Molinié (lights).
See the interview with choreographer Françoise Tartinville on Blanc Brut. Read the rest of this entry »
Première of Blanc Brut by Cie. Atmen, Étoile du Nord, Paris
World premiere of Intérieur Crème, Acte II: Blanc Brut by choreographer Françoise Tartinville, Cie. Atmen, live music by Frédéric Blondy and Diemo Schwarz, at the Etoile du Nord theatre. With Marguerite Lantz, Françoise Tartinville (scenography), Fabien Almakiewicz, Cyril Geeroms (dance), Boris Molinié (lights).
See the interview with choreographer Françoise Tartinville on Blanc Brut.
Blanc Brut, deuxième volet d’Intérieur Crème, est une approche du masculin – considéré dans son volume, sa matière, ses aspérités – sous l’angle d’un regard féminin. Deux « physicalités » se déploient sur scène : deux forces, qui tantôt s’assemblent, formant une même entité organique mouvante et multiple, et qui tantôt se partagent en deux entités à la fois opposées mais interdépendantes.
Il s’agit d’explorer les ressorts pulsionnels des corps, le mouvement brut, puissant, charnel et instinctif et d’en suivre les flux, les trajectoires communes, les architectures imaginaires.
Les mouvements sont abrupts puis s’enroulent, se répandent pour s’épuiser jusqu’à l’étourdissement, laissant émerger les états intérieurs du danseur.
Improvisation with Hans Leeuw at Zaal 100, Amsterdam
Set at Trytone Festival (“new ways of jazz”), also playing: aXolot and Bony Fish! Read the rest of this entry »
27.09.2012
Second concert of ONCEIM, St. Merri, Paris
Orchestre de Nouvelles Créations, Expérimentations et Improvisations Musicales (ONCEIM) at CRAKfestival
27–28 september 2012, église saint-merry, 76 rue de la verrerie, Paris
http://babbelproductions.com/crakfestival.html
other concerts by John Tilbury, EriKm, Evan Parker, Xavier Charles, Bertrand Gauguet, Jean-Sébastien Mariage, Mathias Pontevia, Ivar Grydeland, Christian Wallumrød, Ingar Zach
14.09.2012
Hertzquelle (50Hz source) programmed at ICMC, Ljubljana
Hertzquelle (50Hz source) was selected to be played in the acousmatic music program of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC 2012) in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
The piece Hertzquelle (50Hz source) reveals the very source of the ubiquitous hum of 50Hz that surrounds everyone of us, everywhere, everytime. It can be heard from alarm clocks perturbing the nightly silence, from power adapters that are never switched off, when you touch a blank audio cable, or from badly ground-lifted amplifiers.
This is where it is all coming from, the very place where the world-wide hum originates to radiate all around the earth, tuning the world to its frequency. Read the rest of this entry »
10.08.2012
Essential podcasts about the secret history of technology and music
Following, at a slow pace, the first post with podcast tips, here is a list of podcasts that are absolutely essential listening for anyone interested in how electronic music came about and to what extent technology has influenced or instigated creative musical practice:
TechnoPop: The Secret History of Technology and Pop Music
Six part series on NPR by Rick Karr on how recording technology changed, or created, popular music as we know it, starting from 1877′s phonograph, the microphone, amplification, tape recording, the LP, up to drum machines, laptops, and the internet (english).
not actually a podcast, but online listenable at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1150717
The Tone Generation
early electronic music around the world by Ian Helliwell – contains some mind-blowing gems (english)
podcast link http://blip.tv/the-tone-generation/rss
Variations on Radio Web MACBA
fascinating 7-part series by John Leidecker around collage, reference, and sampling in music, spanning a phenomenal arch from musique concrète over avant-garde plunderphonics to pop and hip-hop (english).
podcast and transcripts link http://rwm.macba.cat/en/variations_tag Read the rest of this entry »
08.07.2012
CataRT as an Instrument
Since about 5 years, CataRT is used extensively as a performance instrument by myself and other musicians, and has stabilised and been tried and tested in many performances. This is why the Inventor Composer Coaction call for new instruments was a welcome occasion to present this instrument to a wider audience, and to advance towards a systematic assessment of how to play and compose with CataRT.
To this end, the CataRT as an Instrument page collects the links to sound and video examples demonstrating CataRT as an expressive performance instrument.
Since CataRT must be seen as a whole family of possible instruments, around the core concept of the timbral sound space that is played by navigation, the actual instrument is determined by the controller that steers the navigation.