Musique(s) électronique(s) : la musique concrète et sa descendance
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La Musique concrète et sa descendance is a documentary film
(cinema) shot between 2008 and 2011 by the filmmaker Jérémie Carboni
.
, from Luigi Russolo
's 1913 manifesto The Art of Noises
to the new generation. In this film, we see an history of this kind of experimental music. Some composers as François Bayle
, Michel Chion
, Christian Zanési
, Kasper T. Toeplitz
, talk about how (and why) they create experimental pieces. This film is for a large audience, it's a discovery of a new gender of music oftenly considered as too elitist.
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
(cinema) shot between 2008 and 2011 by the filmmaker Jérémie Carboni
Jérémie Carboni
Jérémie Carboni is a French director, screenwriter, actor and producer. He was born on December 28, 1980, in Châtenay-Malabry, France. He is the founder of Zerkalo production in 2008.-Early life:...
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Summary
It's a documentary about the musique concrèteMusique concrète
Musique concrète is a form of electroacoustic music that utilises acousmatic sound as a compositional resource. The compositional material is not restricted to the inclusion of sounds derived from musical instruments or voices, nor to elements traditionally thought of as "musical"...
, from Luigi Russolo
Luigi Russolo
Luigi Russolo was an Italian Futurist painter and composer, and the author of the manifesto The Art of Noises . He is often regarded as one of the first noise music experimental composers with his performances of "noise concerts" in 1913-14 and then again after World War I, notably in Paris in 1921...
's 1913 manifesto The Art of Noises
The Art of Noises
The Art of Noises is a Futurist manifesto, written by Luigi Russolo in a 1913 letter to friend and Futurist composer Francesco Balilla Pratella...
to the new generation. In this film, we see an history of this kind of experimental music. Some composers as François Bayle
François Bayle
François Bayle is a composer of Musique concrète or acousmatic music.In the 1950s he studied with Olivier Messiaen, Pierre Schaeffer and Karlheinz Stockhausen. In 1960 he joined the Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française, and in 1966 was put in charge of the Groupe de Recherches Musicales...
, Michel Chion
Michel Chion
Michel Chion born in 1947 in Creil, France, is a composer of experimental music. He teaches at several institutions within France and currently holds the post of Associate Professor at the University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle where he is a theoretician and teacher of audio-visual...
, Christian Zanési
Christian Zanesi
Christian Zanési is a French composer born in Lourdes in 1952.-Biography:Former student of Guy Maneveau and Marie-Françoise Lacaze at the Pau University , of Pierre Schaeffer and Guy Reibel at the Paris Conservatory .In 1977 he joined the Groupe de Recherches Musicales...
, Kasper T. Toeplitz
Kasper T. Toeplitz
Kasper T. Toeplitz is a French composer and musician of polish origin, born in 1960. He lives in Paris.- Biography :He has worked with academic research organizations, such as GMEM, GRM, IRCAM, and Radio-France, as well as with experimental musicians, such as Éliane Radigue, Zbigniew Karkowski,...
, talk about how (and why) they create experimental pieces. This film is for a large audience, it's a discovery of a new gender of music oftenly considered as too elitist.
Cast
- Pierre HenryPierre HenryPierre Henry is a French composer, considered a pioneer of the musique concrète genre of electronic music.-Biography:...
, founder of musique concrèteMusique concrèteMusique concrète is a form of electroacoustic music that utilises acousmatic sound as a compositional resource. The compositional material is not restricted to the inclusion of sounds derived from musical instruments or voices, nor to elements traditionally thought of as "musical"...
. - François BayleFrançois BayleFrançois Bayle is a composer of Musique concrète or acousmatic music.In the 1950s he studied with Olivier Messiaen, Pierre Schaeffer and Karlheinz Stockhausen. In 1960 he joined the Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française, and in 1966 was put in charge of the Groupe de Recherches Musicales...
, composer, former CEO of Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM). - Christian ZanésiChristian ZanesiChristian Zanési is a French composer born in Lourdes in 1952.-Biography:Former student of Guy Maneveau and Marie-Françoise Lacaze at the Pau University , of Pierre Schaeffer and Guy Reibel at the Paris Conservatory .In 1977 he joined the Groupe de Recherches Musicales...
, composer and CEO of Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM). - Michel ChionMichel ChionMichel Chion born in 1947 in Creil, France, is a composer of experimental music. He teaches at several institutions within France and currently holds the post of Associate Professor at the University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle where he is a theoretician and teacher of audio-visual...
, composer, musicologist and professor at the University of Paris III: Sorbonne NouvelleUniversity of Paris III: Sorbonne NouvelleThe New Sorbonne University is a public university in Paris, France.The Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle is a founding member of the Paris Universitas, a union of 6 Parisian universities....
. - Frank Madlener, CEO of IrcamIRCAMIRCAM is a European institute for science about music and sound and avant garde electro-acoustical art music. It is situated next to, and is organizationally linked with, the Centre Pompidou in Paris...
. - Kasper T. ToeplitzKasper T. ToeplitzKasper T. Toeplitz is a French composer and musician of polish origin, born in 1960. He lives in Paris.- Biography :He has worked with academic research organizations, such as GMEM, GRM, IRCAM, and Radio-France, as well as with experimental musicians, such as Éliane Radigue, Zbigniew Karkowski,...
, composer. - Marc BattierMarc BattierMarc Battier is a composer and musicologist. He teaches at the university of Paris-Sorbonne and has taught at the University of California at San Diego and at UC Irvine. He has been in residence at the Aichi University of Fine Arts and Music in Nagoya , and was invited professor at the University...
, composer, cofounder of the Electroacoustic Music Studies (EMS and musicologist at the SorbonneSorbonneThe Sorbonne is an edifice of the Latin Quarter, in Paris, France, which has been the historical house of the former University of Paris...
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