Percussion 2013

Steven Schick Lorenzo Pagliei. Iannis Xenakis. Brian Ferneyhough. John Luther Adams

The percussions of the 20th and 21st centuries are at the heart of the IRCAM festival and its academy. One of its most distinguished representatives, the American Steven Schick, imagined his recital with classics from the repertoire such as Xenakis or Ferneyhough.

Lorenzo Pagliei's work in the first part of this evening represents the fruit of two years of musical and technological research on virtual percussions carried out at IRCAM. Is this the birth of an Esperanto for sound and gesture? Voir-Toucher introduces new instrument-making techniques, an original alphabet of gestures that control physical models using the Modalys software program.

• Lorenzo Pagliei Voir-Toucher, commissioned by IRCAM-Centre Pompidou, premiere
• Iannis Xenakis Rebonds, Psappha
• Brian Ferneyhough Bone Alphabet
• John Luther Adams Roar

Daniel Ciampolini, Benoît Maurin, Pierre-Olivier Schmitt, Gianny Pizzolato, performers
Steven Schick percussion
Creation of the Geecos Ludovic Barrier - instrument maker
IRCAM Compuer Music Design Lorenzo Bianchi

An Ircam/Les Spectacles vivants-Centre Pompidou coproduction