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    The fundamental principle of IRCAM is to encourage productive interaction among scientific research, technological developments, and contemporary music production. Since its establishment in 1977, this initiative has provided the foundation for the institute’s activities. One of the major issues is the importance of contributing to the renewal of musical expression through science and technology. Conversely, sp…

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    • Sound Systems and Signals: Audio/Acoustics, InstruMents
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    • Sound Perception and Design
    • Sound Analysis-Synthesis
    • Sound Music Movement Interaction
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    • Analysis of Musical Practices
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    • The Musical Body
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    • Musique/Sciences Collection
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    • "I am in blood" for Sixteen Musicians and Live Electronics
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    • Deena Abdelwahed in the studio
    • "Transfer" for 10 Musicians and Electronics
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  • SIMPLEXITY la beauté du geste








November 25 through Sat 26 November 2016,
8 p.m.
Charleroi danses
Les Écuries
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SIMPLEXITY la beauté du geste

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During the Ars Musica Festival
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Composer, director of dance films, creator of choreographed multimedia installations, Thierry De Mey has followed a unique path over the past 3 decades guided by his fascination for movement. Today, this artist to whom Belgian dance owes so much, has written his first performance: a large-scale work created with IRCAM, the Ensemble intercontemporain, and a group of dancers. Based on research on digital technology, SIMPLEXITY la beauté du geste blends music and dance, the auditory and the visual, in formal structures performers are invited to inhabit. The theme which nourishes Thierry De Mey's œuvre is found throughout the performance: the quest to find the impossible connections between a structure and its incarnation, between technology and the living, mathematics and nature, the scientific and the poetic. SIMPLEXITY offers a global experience in which music and gesture reconcile a fragment with the whole.

Thierry De Mey Concept, Music, and Choreography
Solistes de l'Ensemble intercontemporain
Jérôme Comte Clarinet
Samuel Favre, Victor Hanna Percussions
Frédérique Cambreling Harp
John Stulz Viola
Premiered and performed by Ildikó Tóth, Louise Tanoto, Peter Juhász, Sara Tan Siyin, Victor Pérez Armero
Zsuzsanna Rozsavolgyi
 Assistant Choreographer
Manuela Rastaldi
 Artistic Advisor
François Deppe Musical Creation Collaboration
Stéphane Orlando Musical Assistant
Benoit Meudic IRCAM Computer Music Design
Gioia Seghers Costumes

Thierry De Mey SIMPLEXITY la beauté du geste commissioned by the French government

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A Charleroi Danses, Centre chorégraphique de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles production. Co-organized by IRCAM/Les Spectacles vivants-Centre Pompidou, Ensemble intercontemporain, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Théâtre de Liège – Festival Pays de Danses and Ars Musica. With the support of the SACD. Thierry De Mey is an associated artist with Charleroi Danses, Centre chorégraphique de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles.
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