A new generation of composers have worked with the professional musicians premiering the final projects for this year’s Cursus program. The year for this internationally recognized training in computer music ends with a concert presenting short pieces. It offers a diversity of formats, aesthetic and technological proposals, revealing the variety of sensibilities and musical worlds of artists from Argentina, the United States, France, Greece and Italy, Japan, and Lithuania.
First part: Monday, September 7th, 8:30 p.m.
Antonio Tules Vallée, for piano and electronics Flavien Laffaille piano
Kayla Cashetta Reach, for soprano and electronics Mathilde Barthélémy soprano
Ko Sahara Paraphrase on “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star”, for microtonal accordion and electronics Jean-Étienne Sottyaccordion
Maxime Mantovani Existentia, for baritone saxophone, disklavier, real-time video, electro-acoustic apparatus and multitrack medium Carmen Lefrançois saxophone
Sofia Avramidou Keep digging the hare hole, for celloand electronics Séverine Ballon cello
Educational support Ircam/Simone Conforti, Grégoire Lorieux, Mikhail Malt, Sébastien Naves Composer associated to the Cursus Thierry De Mey Artistic advice Laure Gauthier poet
Video production Année Zéro – Benoît Martin, Guillaume Foresti
An IRCAM-Centre Pompidou production. In partnership with the Haute École de musique de Genève and the Académie supérieure de musique de Strasbourg – Hear. With the support of the Sacem. IRCAM and the Cité internationale des arts are partners for the Cursus composer residences.