Metropolis / Fritz Lang
In 1995, the Argentinian composer Martin Matalon composed a score initially intended for sixteen instrumentalists and electronics. This score inaugurates the orchestral version of this exceptional ciné-concert with the screening of the restored version of the film Metropolis. Modelled on the rhythm of the film’s narration, Matalon's work becomes, thanks to the spatialization effects made possible with electronics, a true musical double of Fritz Lang's visual poem. Echoes of jazz and extra-European music, acoustic and refracted sounds, merge to reinvent the descriptions of situations and characters, generating new hypotheses and contributing to the rich history of Metropolis Rebooted' interpretation.
TimeArt Studio, Department of Music of Taipei National University of Arts, Taipei Percussion
Yin-Fang Chang conductor
Etienne Démoulin IRCAM electronics
Sylvain Cadars IRCAM Sound Diffusion
Christophe De Coudenhove, Atau Tanaka (original version), Max Bruckert (Grame, version 2011) IRCAM computer music design
Film by Fritz Lang, Germany, 1927 — new version restaured in 2010 by the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung and the Deutsche Kinemathek
Music by Martin Matalon, commissioned by IRCAM-Centre Pompidou (original version), Ensemble Modern and Ensemble intercontemporain