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Le pari sur Michaux: Poésie pour pouvoir
In Poésie pour pouvoir, Pierre Boulez was already sketching, as early as 1958, the spatial contours of Répons and its fragmented sonic architecture. Two orchestras and a group of soloists interact with fixed sounds. Within the electronic textures, the “exorcism” performed by Michaux’s Poésie pour pouvoir, a book-object of poetry and force, can be heard. At the premiere, Michel Bouquet embodied the voice of the poem. Poetry or music? Quoting Michaux, Boulez described poetry as the "center and absence" of musical development. In Michaux, meaning fractures. In Boulez, sound disperses through space.
With Lorraine Dumenil professor of art history and theory
Marco Stroppa composer
Carlo Laurenzi composer and computer music designer
Serie Le Pari de l'œuvre
The act of creation is a wager: on memory, on the future, on how a gesture will be received once it slips beyond the artist’s control. In every field, a work raises the question of its own necessity and its place in the world. Why do certain works from the past still resonate so powerfully today? This new series of monthly encounters invites a guest to share their personal connection with a specific work.
