We have the luxury of premiering two new live-electronics projects from the other side of the French border by composers Matthieu Guillin and Julien Guillamat, two active individuals in promoting the creation and dissemination of new electroacoustic music.

This night is part of our Euroregional collaboration, in which we have teamed up with partners from Occitany, namely Studio EOLE in Tolousse, Festival KLANG! in Montpellier and Flashback Labo in Perpignan.

Programme

Matthieu Guillin (2022) Micro-shocks. Audiovisual performance [20']

Micro-shocks takes from a free intepretation of the homonym concept in Brian Massumi's theory. "Our daily life is inhabited by small moments of daydreaming. Those that are necessary for assimilation, phantasms, reorientations, hope, projections. My poetic and musical inspirations take root in these suspended temporalities for their faint nature and their slightly psychedelic sweetness," says Guillin. For two months, the composer walked around with a hidden camera with the intention of capturing the little daydreams of the people around him, in order to obtain materials to translate such searched feelings of disorientation and reorientation into music, in an age, as the composer puts it, "where we have forgotten the importance and beauty of finding our way."

Julien Guillamat (2022) Vertigo. Fixed Media, live electronics and video [25’]

After classical music studies (cello) at the conservatoire of Montauban and Montpellier and a Masters I in musicology at the Paul Valéry University, Julien Guillamat delved into music composition at the University of Birmingham (England), where he obtained a PhD in electroacoustic composition with Professor Jonty Harrison. Space is a fundamental element in his work and he performs and spatialises his own and other composers’ work around Europe. After attending the 2012 Academy of IRCAM (Paris), Julien returned to France and founded the loudspeaker orchestra KLANG! acousmonium. In 2014, he became artistic director of maison des arts sonores, a music creation structure based in Montpellier and created the electroacoustic music festival KLANG!

Matthieu Guillin divides his work between composition for live performance, acousmatic composition, improvisation and sound performance. After a double degree in plastic and performing arts in Strasbourg in 2010, he first forged his weapons on a performative body work and founded a transdisciplinary company with Sarah Hachin. His work is inspired by the human sciences such as anthropology and philosophy, as well as by the hybridisation of his practice with other artistic fields. He uses a method of writing specific to electroacoustics, a system that relates spaces, situations and perceptual distortions that are too complex to be included in traditional musical notation. He develops an oral score process when he works with performers to seek new ways of circulating musical intention. His compositional approach is also driven by the desire to make sense by bringing together sounds that usually have nothing to do with each other.

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