Sheng! L'orgue à bouche - 14th seminar

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Forêt de Bambous

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With Wu Wei, sheng master & composer Alexis Baskind, sound engineer, electronic music and sound projection André Serre-Milan, composer Liao Lin-Ni, artistic director of the project For the vast majority of studio or concert productions, the sheng (like most instruments) is usually presented as an external sound object to the listener, i.e. a sound source, typically positioned at the front, with a given width and distance, placed in a real or virtual space. In order to explore and present the sheng in a new way, "A Bamboo Forest: The 37-pipe sheng presented from the inside", born from the empirical research between Wu Wei and Alexis Baskind, consists in proposing a reversal of perspective. It is about developing methods to place the listener metaphorically inside the sheng, surrounded by the pipes, in a way similar to the image of the "forest of pipes" sometimes used for the church organ. This idea, which for the organ may be technically easier (though still complex) to implement, poses significant difficulties for the sheng because of the size of the instrument and the radiation of the pipes (mostly directed towards the outside). It is therefore necessary to look for alternative methods of designing the microphone system to overcome this obstacle. The multidisciplinary project Forêt de Bambous will take place in several steps between 2020 and 2024. We will present the end of the first stage of research and creation with the new works of André Serre-Milan and Wu Wei. The works were created in the FARaway Festival at the Opéra de Reims and at the MaerzMusik Festival in Berlin 2022. <img src="/media/uploads/lignejaune-100x2.png" alt="" width="100" height="3" /> <h2>Next Seminar</h2> <h3>15th seminar | May 10, 2022, 2:30-5:30pm</h3> Le fleuve de sons, analyse des modulations et masquages dans les accords du sheng with Mikhail Malt (Ircam-STMS, IReMus) La visualisation des données pour la musicologie with Pierre Couprie (CHCSC, Université Paris-Saclay)

With Wu Wei, sheng master & composer
Alexis Baskind, sound engineer, electronic music and sound projection
André Serre-Milan, composer
Liao Lin-Ni, artistic director of the project

For the vast majority of studio or concert productions, the sheng (like most instruments) is usually presented as an external sound object to the listener, i.e. a sound source, typically positioned at the front, with a given width and distance, placed in a real or virtual space.

In order to explore and present the sheng in a new way, "A Bamboo Forest: The 37-pipe sheng presented from the inside", born from the empirical research between Wu Wei and Alexis Baskind, consists in proposing a reversal of perspective. It is about developing methods to place the listener metaphorically inside the sheng, surrounded by the pipes, in a way similar to the image of the "forest of pipes" sometimes used for the church organ. This idea, which for the organ may be technically easier (though still complex) to implement, poses significant difficulties for the sheng because of the size of the instrument and the radiation of the pipes (mostly directed towards the outside). It is therefore necessary to look for alternative methods of designing the microphone system to overcome this obstacle.

The multidisciplinary project Forêt de Bambous will take place in several steps between 2020 and 2024. We will present the end of the first stage of research and creation with the new works of André Serre-Milan and Wu Wei. The works were created in the FARaway Festival at the Opéra de Reims and at the MaerzMusik Festival in Berlin 2022.

Next Seminar

15th seminar | May 10, 2022, 2:30-5:30pm

Le fleuve de sons, analyse des modulations et masquages dans les accords du sheng
with Mikhail Malt (Ircam-STMS, IReMus)

La visualisation des données pour la musicologie
with Pierre Couprie (CHCSC, Université Paris-Saclay)

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TPMC - Tout Pour la Musique Contemporaine Production. GMEM-CNCM-Marseille Coproduction. With the support of the Drac Ile-de-France, IReMus, Ircam, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, GVL - Neu Start Kultur et SACEM.