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Fri 27 January 2023,
8 p.m.
Stadtgarten (Cologne)
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Ex Machina

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The Orchestre National de Jazz and IRCAM present Ex Machina, a creation imagined by the American saxophonist Steve Lehman and Frédéric Maurin, artistic director of the ONJ; two composers who share a taste for exploring new musical territories.

This project is the result of a collaboration with the Musical Representations team at IRCAM and explores for the first time the possibilities of interaction between the instrumentalists and the machine within a large jazz orchestra.
By integrating devices created using Jérôme Nika's DYCI2 environment in the composition process and in the soloists' improvisations in real-time, the computer becomes, in turn, a generator of electronic orchestrations for the composers and an improvisation partner for the musicians.

Steve Lehman, Frédéric Maurin compositions
commissioned by IRCAM-Centre Pompidou and the Orchestre National de Jazz 

Orchestre National de Jazz
Frédéric Maurin artistic direction
Jérôme Nika generative electronics creation and artistic collaboration
Dionysios Papanikolaou IRCAM electronics

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Executive producer Orchestre national de jazz. An IRCAM-Centre Pompidou coproduction. With the support of the ERC Advanced Grant REACH, project led by Gérard Assayag and supported by the European Research Council under the Horizon 2020 program, of the Jazz & New Music fond, of the Villa Albertine and the FACE Foundation, in partnership with the French Embassy in the United States and with the support of the Ministère de la Culture, the Institut français.
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