Archipelago #4 - Basel Sinfonietta / Asia Ahmetjanova / Ash Fure / Oscar Bianchi and more ...
Archipelago, 31st edition! The International Sound Art Festival, Research and creation music moved from March 31 to April 9 at the Communal House of Plainpalais in Geneva. Welcome ! 12:00 p.m. - Listening lounge
Hem workshop: the concert
Student works
Carvajal novel, Hiperacusia I (2023)
Pablo Andrés Mastromanno, The sound nightmare (2023)
Benoit Mussard, Bejisa (2023)
Felix Schade, The shadow of Ganymede (2023)
Acousmonium is both a listening device and an instrument. Taking it as much a joy as a challenge for students' x · hem. This concert allows you to discover their works, Worked on site with care and broadcast on the eighty speakers of the listening lounge. An opportunity also to hear them talking about their composition.
More info: https://2023.archipel.org/fr/program/Workshop-hem-le-concert-2023
Popular workshop students from the Popular Conservatory
In this collaboration initiated by the Archipel Festival, Nicolas Roulive and Benjamin Gueit, Two young composers from the composition class of the Haute École de Musique de Genève, Associate themselves with a rock group to produce new songs. An anthology of current music in which some classics of the rock repertoire rub shoulders with the compositions of Giulia and Stella, Two young rockers full of energy and talent and the creations of Nicolas and Benjamin. A concert to dance without moderation.
Oscar Bianchi: 6dB for six double bass and orchestra
Eighty musician · X · Nes invade the large room! The Basel Sinfonietta comes in number and makes us discover the meticulous work of three magnificent figures of contemporary creation: Oscar Bianchi works the serious registers with six solo doubles, Asia Ahmetjianova uses instruments in a diverted manner and the American Ash Fure explores instrumental crackling, mixed with electronic material.
Australian sound artist, Felicity Mangan articulates his work around dissections of field recordings, Listening to biorhythms and stamps specific to these outdoor places. The manipulations and sequences that she obtains release them from their spatial contingencies to better make the organic elements heard, their movements by what, in the composition, Can prolong the living present in these phenomena.
A curiosity for these involuntary music made repetitive which the two extracts of Fridge Trax prolongers more from General Magic (Ramon Bauer and Andreas Pieper) and Pita (Peter Rehberg). First release of the Mego label, founded by the three musicians, The disc focuses on a fridge sound - reworked according to electroacoustic techniques and recomposed via the dub and the dance music - and testifies to the polymorphic vision of the electronic music of Peter Rehberg, Died in 2021.
Every evening at 10:30 p.m., The listening salon offers a concert that combines a sound creation and the resonance dissemination of historical pieces or curiosities escaped from the vast repertoire of electroacoustic music.