Cursus Concert

A concert recorded at the Centre Pompidou to watch with headphones for an optimal listening experience

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<div class="c-content u-mbs"> <div class="editable-original"> A new generation of composers have worked with the professional musicians premiering the final projects for this year’s Cursus program. The year for this internationally recognized training in computer music ends with a concert presenting short pieces. It offers a diversity of formats, aesthetic and technological proposals, revealing the variety of sensibilities and musical worlds of artists from Argentina, the United States, France, Greece and Italy, Japan, and Lithuania. <h4>Part 1</h4> <iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/YKdKDsB4Ue4" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe> Antonio Tules  Vallée, for piano and electronics Flavien Laffaille piano  Kayla Cashetta Reach, for soprano and electronics Mathilde Barthélémy soprano  Ko Sahara  Paraphrase on “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star”, for microtonal accordion and electronics Jean-Étienne Sotty accordion  Maxime Mantovani  Existentia, for baritone saxophone, disklavier, real-time video, electro-acoustic apparatus and multitrack medium Carmen Lefrançois saxophone Sofia Avramidou  Keep digging the hare hole, for cello and electronics Séverine Ballon cello Educational support Ircam/Simone Conforti, Grégoire Lorieux, Mikhail Malt, Sébastien Naves Composer associated to the Cursus Thierry De Mey Artistic advice Laure Gauthier poet Video production Année Zéro – Benoît Martin, Guillaume Foresti <h4>Part 2</h4> <iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tQkJ1IqI_aA" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe> Oren Boneh Her Majesty the Fool, for microtonal accordion and electronics Fanny Vicens accordion Fernando Manassero The Moth, for vinyl turntables and electronics Roberto Maqueda percussion Paul Ramage Fragments d’une Fin, for piano CP-80 and electronics Alvise Sinivia piano Justina Repečkaitė Transduced, for 3 snare drums, 1 small cymbal, 1 standing bell, 3 transducers and electronics Yannick Monnot percussion Claudia Jane Scroccaro I sing the body electric, for double bass and electronics Florentin Ginot double bass  Educational support Ircam/Simone Conforti, Jean Lochard, Grégoire Lorieux, Mikhail Malt Composer associated to the Cursus Thierry De Mey Video production Année Zéro – Benoît Martin, Guillaume Foresti An IRCAM-Centre Pompidou production. In partnership with the Haute École de musique de Genève and the Académie supérieure de musique de Strasbourg – Hear. With the support of the Sacem. IRCAM and the Cité internationale des arts are partners for the Cursus composer residences. <h4></h4> </div> </div> <div class="c-content u-mbs"> </div>

A new generation of composers have worked with the professional musicians premiering the final projects for this year’s Cursus program. The year for this internationally recognized training in computer music ends with a concert presenting short pieces. It offers a diversity of formats, aesthetic and technological proposals, revealing the variety of sensibilities and musical worlds of artists from Argentina, the United States, France, Greece and Italy, Japan, and Lithuania.

Part 1

Antonio Tules
Vallée, for piano and electronics
Flavien Laffaille piano

Kayla Cashetta
Reach, for soprano and electronics
Mathilde Barthélémy soprano

Ko Sahara
Paraphrase on “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star”, for microtonal accordion and electronics
Jean-Étienne Sottyaccordion

Maxime Mantovani
Existentia, for baritone saxophone, disklavier, real-time video, electro-acoustic apparatus and multitrack medium
Carmen Lefrançois saxophone

Sofia Avramidou
Keep digging the hare hole, for celloand electronics
Séverine Ballon cello

Educational support Ircam/Simone Conforti, Grégoire Lorieux, Mikhail Malt, Sébastien Naves
Composer associated to the Cursus Thierry De Mey
Artistic advice Laure Gauthier poet

Video production
Année Zéro – Benoît Martin, Guillaume Foresti

Part 2

Oren Boneh
Her Majesty the Fool, for microtonal accordion and electronics
Fanny Vicensaccordion

Fernando Manassero
The Moth, for vinyl turntables and electronics
Roberto Maqueda percussion

Paul Ramage
Fragments d’une Fin, for piano CP-80 and electronics
Alvise Sinivia piano

Justina Repečkaitė
Transduced, for 3 snare drums, 1 small cymbal, 1 standing bell, 3 transducers and electronics
Yannick Monnot percussion

Claudia Jane Scroccaro
I sing the body electric, for double bass and electronics
Florentin Ginot double bass

Educational support Ircam/Simone Conforti, Jean Lochard, Grégoire Lorieux, Mikhail Malt
Composer associated to the Cursus Thierry De Mey

Video production
Année Zéro – Benoît Martin, Guillaume Foresti

An IRCAM-Centre Pompidou production. In partnership with the Haute École de musique de Genève and the Académie supérieure de musique de Strasbourg – Hear. With the support of the Sacem. IRCAM and the Cité internationale des arts are partners for the Cursus composer residences.

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