Images of a Work Collection
Since 2007, IRCAM’s Department of Education and Cultural Outreach has presented one or two films a year on a work in production with electronics produced in the institute’s studios. The series is produced in collaboration with the Centre Pompidou. The films are screened before the work’s premiere and are accompanied by a meeting with the composer and film crew.
Examining the different steps in creating a piece, watching a composer at work, understanding the sources and issues surrounding recent creations produced at IRCAM: these are the subjects of the “Images of a Work” series. It decodes the creative process of a musical work and lets us in to the inner workings of IRCAM. It shows the involvement of different actors (composer, musicians, computer music designers, scientists, ect.) in the elaboration of a musical project and their various work situations (personal studio, research period, tests, recordings, rehearsals with musicians and other artists, etc.)
This collection sheds light on the aesthetic, technological, and scientific aspects of a work in progress. The films are part of a global educational effort that accompanies the audience, the listener, in their understanding of a musical work and how the technology and research developed at IRCAM serve an artistic project.
>#1: Stèles d'air by Jérôme Combier | >#16: Germination by Jean-Luc Hervé Director: Philippe Langlois and Christian Bahier (2013) |
>#2: Le Grand Dehors by Pierre Jodlowski | >#17: Te craindre en ton absence by Hèctor Parra Director: Antoine Pecqueur and Christian Bahier (2014) |
>#3: Océan by Philipp Maintz | >#18: Quid sit musicus ? by Philippe Leroux Director: Thierry Paul Benizeau (2014) |
>#4: Dans le mur by Georges Aperghis | >#19: Tour à Tour by Philippe Hurel |
>#5: Deux caprices pour percussion by Luis Naón | >#20: Notturno sulle corde vuote by Francesco Filidei Director: Véronique Caye and Philippe Langlois (2016) |
>#6: Les temps tiraillés by Myriam Gourfink and Georg Friedrich Haas | >#21: SIMPLEXITY la beauté du geste by Thierry De Mey Director: Philippe Langlois, in collaboration with Yves Pezet, Aliocha and Boris Van der Avoort (2016) |
>#7: L'électronique de chambre by Marco Stroppa | >#22: Infinite Now by Chaya Czernowin |
>#8: Le père by Michael Jarrell | >#23: La Princesse légère by Violeta Cruz Director: Natacha Nisic and Anne Montaron (2018) |
>#9: Un Mage en été by Olivier Cadiot & Ludovic Lagarde | >#24: Epigram by Franck Bedrossian |
>#10: Tensio by Philippe Manoury | >#25 : Eror (The Pianist) by Georgia Spiropoulos Director: Sabine Massenet, in collaboration with François-Xavier Féron (2019) |
>#11: Quartett by Luca Francesconi | > #26 : De Tinieblas by Stefano Gervasoni Director: Véronique Caye and Philippe Langlois |
>#12: La pierre et l'étang (...les temps...) by Ivan Fedele | >#27 : Canzoniere, I et II by Marta Gentilucci Director: Isabelle Ingold and Vivianne Perelmuter, in collaboration with Michèle Tosi (2021) |
>#13: Luna Park de Georges Aperghis | > #28 : Like flesh by Sivan Eldar Director: Christian Barani, in collaboration with Philippe Langlois. |
>#14: Inferno by Yann Robin | >#29 : Ex Machina by Steve Lehman & Frédéric Maurin Director: Catherine Radosa, in collaboration with Philippe Langlois. |
>#15: Assemblage by Roque Rivas |
Lastest trailers of "Images of Work"
- Trailer - Images of Work #29: "Ex Machina" by Steve Lehman and Frédéric Maurin
- Trailer - Images of Work #28: "Like flesh" by Sivan Eldar
- Trailer - Images of Work #27: "Canzoniere" by Marta Gentilucci
- Trailer - Images of Work #26: "De Tinieblas" by Stefano Gervasoni
- Trailer - Images of a Work #25 : "EROR (The pianist)" by Georgia Spiropoulos