Back Performance by Odile Auboin & Ensemble Flashback

Performance by Odile Auboin & Ensemble Flashback

Wednesday 21 d'octubre, 20h. Sala Aranyó (Campus UPF Poblenou). Free admission.
21.10.2020

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BIRD IN A CAGE (2018 ) [17'] multimedia work for viola, electronics and immersive digital environment

Co-creation of Alexander Vert (composition, electronics), Odile Auboin (interpretation, instrumental writing, improvisation) and Thomas Penanguer (visual artist).

Inspired by the symbolism of the bird from various angles (Egyptian tradition, psychoanalysis and metaphors), this work offers an expressive and intimate universe in which the performer communicates with the different forms of bird entities. A glance from within or a window open on the musician's soul, this celestial animal par excellence, often represents our highest aspirations, our spiritual part but also, as in the Egyptian tradition, the Ba (a bird with a human head that leaves the body at the moment of death) the soul of the dreamer.

IRIJORI (2020) [20'] for viola, cymbal and electronics

By Grégoire Simon. Viola: Odile Auboin.

Irijori is a piece for a performer in which a mobile microphone comes to the surface of the cymbal, thus revealing, as if through an audio zoom effect, the hidden subtleties and complex vibrations of the metal. Inserting itself into these resonances, the viola provided with a metallic mute enters in dialogue with the cymbal by affixing sound textures of variable intensities, looking for microtonal vibrations and embryos of melodies. Then follows, as a counterpart in the rhythmic world of the ever-changing harmonic vibrations of the cymbal, a perpetual movement made of always unexpected sequences of irregular rhythmic cells, reminiscent of the syncopated playing of jazz cymbals or electronic music. *Irijori ( 이리저리 ) means back and forth in Korean language.

 

Biographies

The Flashback Ensemble. Created in 2012 by Alexander Vert, the Ensemble Flashback is a french musical ensemble includes performers, composers, visual artists and researchers into computer music, all with the common goal of supporting and promoting today’s music, including their approach to new technologies. Fundamentally focused on diverse expressions aimed at a wide audience, the group carries out various activities such as creation, distribution, research and development in the field of contemporary music, digital arts, video and performing arts. It also organises cultural and training activities around the projects it undertakes (masterclasses, workshops, seminar...) internationally.

Alexander Vert, composer and director of the Flashback Ensemble. A composer for more than 20 years, Alexander Vert is also the director of the Flashback ensemble, an ensemble dedicated to today's music and the new technologies he created in 2012. His musical language is based on traditional music, which he has listened to and recorded during his many travels (India, Australia, Japan, South America...), as well as the pop culture from which he comes and contemporary Western music. His repertoire, rich of more than sixty works to date (mixed, electroacoustic and instrumental pieces, multimedia) is performed internationally (China, Spain, England, Switzerland, Germany, Japan...). Since 2015, he has been co-responsible for the Flashback Ensemble's "GeKiPe" (Geste, Kinect and Percussion) research project, conducted in partnership with the Haute Ecole de Musique de Genève (CH) and IRCAM (FR). As such, he composes for the "GeKiPe" scheme and develops cultural actions around gestural recording in conservatories, schools and colleges. Since 2015, Alexander Vert has also been a teacher in sound creation and contemporary music at the CRR in Perpignan.

 

Odile Auboin (viola) won two first prizes (viola and chamber music) at the Paris Conservatory in 1991. Winner of Lavoisier research grants from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a further training grant from the Ministry of Culture, she studied at Yale University (U.S.A.), then perfected her skills with Bruno Giuranna at the Stauffer Foundation in Cremona (Italy). She is a laureate of the Rome International Competition (Bucchi). In 1995, she joined the Ensemble intercontemporain. Her interest in creation and her position as Soloist of the Ensemble Intercontemporain allow her to work closely with the great composers of the second half of the 20th century, such as György Kurtág and Boulez, with whom she recorded Le Marteau sans Maître for Deutsche Grammophon and premiered Anthèmes at the Avignon Festival.

 

Thomas Pénanguer is a visual artist (digital and video), plastic scenographer. His installations include graphic design, video, puppeteer creation, among other things. His universe takes possession of space, his graphic and video creations invade the windows of public spaces, blending with architecture; they integrate in situ, playing with spaces and situations. Thomas Pénanguer uses current creative techniques with the sensitive will to create a poetic sense. Always tempted by the exchange of practices and encounters with artists from all horizons, he multiplies collaborations along his career path, including: the Flashback Ensemble, La Cie Grand Amour Théâtre, Cie Ala Blanca, Cie Nmara, Cie Wang/Ramirez/Cie Clash 66, Cie Merci Mon Chou, Cie Les Petites Gens.

 

Born in Paris in 1986, Grégoire Simon lives between Berlin and Paris and works as a performer (viola and violin) and composer. After studying violin at the CNSM in Paris and viola at the UdK (Universität der Künste) in Berlin, he was chosen in 2012 as a violist in the prestigious Ensemble Intercontemporain in Paris. After four enriching years and numerous concerts throughout the world with this ensemble (notably as a soloist with Gérard Grisey's Prologue and Hugues Dufour's viola concerto Les Chardons d'après Van Gogh at the Cité de la Musique in Paris), he turned to composition and electronic music. His Prédèle for viola and electronics and his multimedia performance Infrarouge (with his groups Yes Soeur! and SUGAR) are notably premiered in 2016 and 2017 at the Wien Modern festival. Renowned for his original arrangements, he is regularly solicited by the Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop in Berlin and the Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra, two ensembles with which he performs as a violist or electronic artist. Half of the electronic duo Yes Soeur! Grégoire Simon has for many years been producing original music for visual installations and contemporary dance performances for the Opéra National de Lyon, the Ballet National de Marseille, the Palais de Chaillot and the Tanzhaus in Düsseldorf, among others.

 

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