The film in concert is a genre of which Martin Matalon is particularly fond: it transforms the screening of a film into a live performance. After his memorable experiences with Luis Buñuel and Fritz Lang, the Argentinian composer meets Chaplin and three medium-length films in which social criticism is met with poetry and humor. An irresistible playfulness. Seven musicians, including a singer, take part in the adventure, as well as the electronics that multiply the extensive palette of percussion including zarb, udu, balafon, and Afro-Cuban instruments. Whether complete parallelism or deliberate divergence between image and music, autonomy and accompaniment, the music weaves its own relationship to the film's structure through editing.
Trio K/D/M
Anthony Milletaccordion
Guy Frisch,Emil Kuyumcuyan percussions
Clara Barbier Serrano soprano
Alain Billard clarinet
Yi Zhou cello
Jules Boittin trombone
Martin Matalon conductor
Etienne Démoulin IRCAM electronics
Sylvain Cadars IRCAM sound diffusion
Music by Martin Matalon, commissioned by IRCAM-Centre Pompidou, the Compagnie Cadéëm, the Centre Henri Pousseur, with support for writing an original work from the Ministry of Culture and DRAC Île-de-France, and the support of the Ernst Von Siemens Foundation, the Salabert Foundation, and the Sacem, for three films by Charlie Chaplin, The Vagabond(1916), Behind the Screen(1916), The Immigrant(1917), premiere 2024