With Tensio, Philippe Manoury continues his work on the intimate relationship between the instrument and electronics. Allusion to the tension of strings, intensified by computer instrument making, this string quartet is constructed in seven sections that successively favor mobility, pressure, glissandos, density, variation, pizzicati, rotation through contributions made by new systems for sound synthesis. We can find certain themes previously explored by the composer in older scores (e.g. Partita I) and above all, the unending quest to invent music in which the machine is a true partner.
Quatuor Diotima
Alain Billard bass clarinet (Del reflejo de la sombra)
Philippe Manoury sound projection*
IRCAM Computer Music Design Gilbert Nouno*
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 8:30pm / Salle de la Bourse, Strasbourg
