Gesture And Multimedia - Percussion, Smartphones & Electronics

Performance
15 Jun 2015
08:00pm
Multimedia Theatre (M1060), Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre
Gesture And Multimedia - Percussion, Smartphones & Electronics

Date :

2015.06.15 (Mon)

Location :

Multimedia Theatre (M1060), Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, City University of Hong Kong

Time :

8pm

Free Admission - Please register at the ONLINE REGISTRATION page (on a first-come, first-served basis)

Gesture and music are two inseparable concepts that contemporary composers have been trying to enhance through the new possibilities offered by multimedia technologies. In this particular program curated by GRAME, different works are presented in order to show the actual possibilities and some of the latest evolutions.

With Thierry de Mey ’s Light Music (2004), we explore the concept of gesture in music through the movement-sensitive device used by a soloist to produce musical sequences and visual effects.

More recent (2014), Xavier Garcia ’s compositions Mephisto and Belzebuth initiate the use of smartphones into the creative process of music interpretation, and open new perspectives through the participatory dimension of the concerts, since each mobile phone becomes a musical instrument, actioned by the movements of the artists and audience. (links for the installation of the Smart-Faust app – available on iOS and Android – will be provided to the audience prior to the performance)

Lifelines, one of Garcia’s latest works (2015), bridges electronic music and video, with a synthesizer generating both sounds and images at the same time, with some various outputs – sometimes similar, sometimes different – whose ambiguity creates the interest.

About GRAME

GRAME was founded in 1982 by Pierre-Alain Jaffrennou and James Giroudon, and certified as a “National Centre for Musical Creation” in 1996. Its mission is to promote the conception, production and distribution of new works, to contribute to the development of scientific and musical research, and to construct vital bridges between creative artists and the public.

Jean Geoffroy (percussions)

Xavier Garcia (smartphones)

Christophe Lebreton, computer sound designer

Programme

XAVIER GARCIA Mephisto (2014) 10’for drums and smartphone ‘choir’Commission and musical realization Grame

XAVIER GARCIA Lifelines (2015) 12’for electronics and video

THIERRY DE MEY Light Music (2004) 23’for conductor/soloist, projection and interactive systems (Production Grame, co production Charleroi-Danses)

XAVIER GARCIA Belzebuth (2014) 13’for smartphones, with the participation of the audience(Commission Grame, Production Grame, with the support of Dicream and INEDIT-Projet ANR; Creation in the frame of Biennale Musique en Scène 2014)

with the kind participation of the musicians of the Hong Kong New Music Ensemble

Co-presented by School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong Consulate General of France in Hong Kong and Macau

within the framework of Le French May Arts Festival

With the support of Ville de Lyon SPEDIDAM Région Rhône-Alpes Hong Kong New Music Ensemble Institut francais

律動.多媒體
敲擊樂、智能手機及電子音樂
尚.祖佛華 ─ 西維爾.加斯亞

日期:6月15日(一)地點:香港城市大學邵逸夫創意媒體中心多媒體劇院時間:晚上八時

免費入場 - 按此登記留座(先到先得)

動態與音樂是兩個密不可分的概念,在多媒體科技日新月異之下,當代作曲家一直致力探索當中的潛力。是次演出由里昂GRAME國家藝術中心策劃,透過演奏下列作品,為香港觀眾呈現動態音樂的最新發展,領略其無限可能。

今次演奏的作品包括法國作曲家堤希.德梅2004年的〈輕音樂〉,演奏者利用一座動態感測器,以動作創造出音樂與視覺效果,探究動態在音樂創作中的角色。

較新近的作品,則有西維爾.加斯亞2014年的〈梅菲斯特〉及〈別西卜〉;這兩首作品創下先河,以智能手機演奏,令音樂演繹過程成為創作的一環。演出現場每一部智能手機,均可變為樂器,觀眾可與音樂家一同以動態奏出樂章,開創出演奏會現場參與的新模式。(主辦單位將於開場前,為觀眾提供Smart-Faust手機應用程式的下載方式,同時支援iOS及Andriod手機)

加斯亞2015年最新作品〈生命線〉,則連結電子音樂與影像,以一座合成器同時輸出的聲音及影像畫面,時而應和、時而分歧,自曖昧不明中奏出意蘊。

里昂GRAME國家音樂創作中心簡介

GRAME由皮耶-阿倫.賈佛努及詹姆.茲赫頓於1982年創立,1996年獲認證為國家音樂創作中心,使命為推動創新音樂作品的創造、製作及傳播,致力發展科學及音樂研究及為公眾與創意藝術家建立交流橋樑。

尚.祖佛華 (敲擊樂)

西維爾.加斯亞(Xavier Garcia (智能手機))

基斯杜化.勒貝頓(電子聲音設計)

節目表

西維爾.加斯亞梅菲斯特 (2014) 10’鼓、智能手機合奏(GRAME委託創作及製作)

西維爾.加斯亞生命線 (2015) 12’電子音樂及影像

堤希.德梅輕音樂 (2004) 23’指揮/獨奏、投影及互動系統(GRAME 製作;Charleroi-Danses 協力製助)

西維爾.加斯亞 別西卜 (2014) 13’智能手機及觀眾參與(GRAME 委託創作及製作;Dicream 及 INEDIT-Projet ANR 協力製作;2014年里昂音樂現場雙年展參展作品)

聯合主辦香港城市大學創意媒體學院法國駐香港及澳門總領事館

此節目為「法國五月」節目之一

全力支持 Ville de Lyon SPEDIDAMRégion Rhône-Alpes香港創樂團 Institut francais