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

Clara Levy

Listening sharing #4


Clara Levy likes to combine musical times in her projects. She sets up for an hour in the listening salon with her suitcase and her records to make us discover sound worlds that are sometimes old of several centuries, which resonate perfectly with creation today.


More info: https://2023.archipel.org/fr/program/clara-levy-partage-decoute


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5 p.m. - Playground - 0 to 107 years old

*Drum Drum Tam Tam*

Tactus set


James Tenney, HAVING Never Written a note for percussion (1971)

Steve Reich, Drumming (1971)


A repetitive music program around two icons: New York Steve Reich takes us with Drumming and its rhythmic structures repeated endlessly. James Tenney, on the other hand, Plunges us into a multi-sensory perception space with Having Never Written a note for percussion. This piece presents the originality of perceiving oneself as much by hearing as by touch, through bone conduction. An event as sensory as it is sensational.


Free


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7 p.m. - Salle des Pas lost

*Sparkles all around*

Sarah Hennies

Fleas (2017) for vibraphone and multiple bells played by the public


Vibraphonic trip and culmination of more than ten years of work with the instrument, Fleas explores the acoustic corners and corners of the initially unpleasant sound of the instrument. The vibraphone is joined by a choir of small recovered bells, played by the public, producing rich resonances, Scintillating harmonies and soft ripples.


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7 p.m. - large room

*Old Souls*

Hildegard von bingen, TOM GURIN, Jürg Frey, Guillaume de Machaut


TOM GURIN, Not open (2022) for clarinet only

Hildegard von bingen, From Angelis (1151) for voice and clarinet, Ave Generosa (1155) for Médievale, Dulcimer and percussion

Guillaume de Machaut, Complaint such laughs in the evening hand cry (~ 1341) for medieval life, Dulcimer and percussion

Jürg Frey, I Listened to the Wind Again (2016-2017) for voice, clarinet, violin, alto, cello and percussion - Swiss creation


Six soloists meet and share their passion for music that are deployed in continuity, with a form of permanence. With I Listened to the Wind Again, Jürg Frey invites us to dive into a suspended time. The finesse of her writing is like the title of his work, With sounds that appear and disappear spectacularly imperceptibly. The rest of the program is part of the same perspective, with extensions in melodic universes of the 12th, 14th and 21st centuries which promise a moment of deep fullness.


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9 p.m. - Sacha home

*Deep Medieval*

Clara Levy


13 visions, According to Hildegard von Bingen and Pauline Oliveros (2022) for violin


This is a dream meeting of two composers whose musical aesthetics share many affinities, Despite the centuries that separate them. Their respective visions are faced with a cycle of thirteen pieces for violin alone. Somewhere between the composition, arrangement and quote, Clara Levy's work is inspired by 13 Changes by Pauline Oliveros, a partition made up of poetic instructions, who invite you to explore various game modes and instrument preparations. The songs of Hildegard von Bingen is inserted with sober harmonizations.


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10:30 p.m. - Listening lounge

Anouck Genthon and Lionel Marchetti

Acous conversation (my) tick #5


*Acousmimetics and phasmagorie*

Anouck Genthon and Lionel Marchetti: phasme, mixed musical work for loudspeaker, violin, Basse frequencies synthesizer and amplifier

Lionel Marchetti: Noord Five Atlantica


Unmissable goldsmith of the French electroacoustic scene, The Lionel Marchetti ear filmmaker finesse the concrete and synthetic sound boundaries with finesse, in writing as in improvisation. Noord Five Atlantica testifies to this taste for meticulous space of collected or generated materials which open on a poetics to human lyricism, non-human and mineral.


In pursuit of conversation, Phasme associates the synthesizer of Lionel Marchetti with the violin of Anouck Genthon in the same momentum directed towards sound ambiguity as a mode of deployment of an acoustic space. A form contained in the particular architecture of the speakers which redraw the silhouette of sounds and guides the composition to the same listening point.


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.


More info: https://2023.archipel.org/fr/program/anouck-genthon-et-lionel-marchetti