Cursus Concert
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.
