Alain Bancquart. Inhabiting time

Coordination Jean-Marc Chouvel

This year Alain Bancquart will be celebrating his eightieth birthday. It is the occasion to reflect on the work of this demanding composer, one who was nourished as much by the discovery of microtonal worlds as by a special complicity with poetry. The day session organised by the Cdmc, to the founding of which he was a contributor as an Inspector of Music, is intended above all as a homage to the man of art by attempting to analyse and better understand his aesthetic.

However, in bringing together some of the major observers of his commitment to the music of his time, by listening to some of his former students at the Paris Conservatory, the idea will also be to obtain a better appreciation of his role at an intense moment of musical creativity. Whether the context be that of the institutions it was his responsibility to set up or organise, such as the contemporary music programming of Radio France, or that of his being a teacher involved in the transmission of a certain idea of music, the work of Alain Bancquart has also been engaged with his time, the vast labyrinth of an epoch both complex and full of teeming activity that had, in spite of all difficulties, to be conceived and made habitable.

With the participation of Alain Bancquart, Pierre Albert Castanet, Karine Le Bail, Brice Pauset, Michel Fischer, Stéphane de Gérando, Laurent Martin, Franck Yeznikian, Irène Jarsky, Pierre-Yves Artaud, Pierre Strauch, Hugues Dufourt, Paul Méfano, Michel Decoust.

Partnership Cdmc – IREMUS, CNRS-Paris IV – CNSMDP