Festival Présences : Ensemble intercontemporain
With Tristan Murail as guest of honor, the Festival Présences highlights an important branch of French creation: the spectral school which revolutionized the vision of sound and the compositional approach. The result of "micro-surgeries" on sound, Murail's L'Esprit des dunes and Désintégrations are presented in the context of the impact left by the spectral wave. Philippe Hurel arrived immediately afterwards and mixed it with a touch of groove. He delivers here a new piece for the clarinet, while Allain Gaussin, a former Conservatory classmate of Murail, composes a chamber work. The young Clara Olivares, finally, accepts the heritage of her elders— most notably by presenting changes in the state of matter through processes of acoustic imitation of electronics—in a score for horn inspired by Baudelaire.
Jérôme Comte clarinet
Jens McManama horn
Étienne Démoulin, Andrew Gerzso, Serge Lemouton, Leslie Stuck IRCAM computer music design
Ensemble intercontemporain
Duncan Ward conductor
George Crumb Eine kleine Mitternacht Musik (extraits) n° 1 et 3
Philippe HurelEn spirale pour clarinette – Premiere 2022
commissioned by the Ensemble intercontemporain and Radio France
Allain GaussinPar delà… – Premiere 2022
commissioned by the Ensemble intercontemporain and Radio France
Tristan MurailL'Esprit des dunes
Clara Olivares Vers mes cieux vos regards pleins d'ivresse – Premiere 2022
commissioned by IRCAM-Centre Pompidou, the Ensemble intercontemporain and Radio France
Tristan Murail Désintégrations
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