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Bruno Giner, writer of notes and composer of words
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Coordination Michèle Tosi
Bruno Giner, now in his fifties, continues his compositional work. on the score first of all, with those constants that have forged his manner and thence impose a style: a love of sound, nurtured in the late 1980s by the discovery of electro-acoustics and the energy of the instrumental gesture that permeates his demanding and inventive music. His catalogue reveals particular affinities with the percussion, as this embodies for him the emancipation of the sound world he pins his hopes on; yet this prospecting is also the fruit of a fertile and faithful collaboration with performers such as Jean Geoffroy, Françoise Rivalland and Laurence Chave. Other encounters such as that with Christophe Roy and Frédéric Stochl in the domain of strings or Serge Bertocchi, saxophone player, Pascal Contet, accordionist, have led him to explore most of the fields of musical creativity.
For some fifteen years, writing notes has been running in tandem with writing words: it was an irrepressible need to commit himself to opposing any attack on freedom that led Bruno Giner to compose, in 2008, his first opera (a pocket opera), Charlie, that relates, with a blend of humour and terror the rise of a totalitarian regime. In parallel, he has published several works on ‘musical purification’ under the Nazi regime as well as a very recent short novella Le crin et le fusain that tells the story of the meeting of two exiles of the Spanish civil war, his grandfather – the painter Balbino Giner García – and Pablo Casals.
18 h On notes and words, a portrait of Bruno Giner
Michèle Tosi
18 h 30 Encounter(s) and adventure(s)
Michèle Tosi with Jean Geoffroy, Christophe Roy, Frédéric Stochl, Bernard de Vienna and Bruno Giner
Musical interlude
Et in terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis
Jean Geoffroy, snare drum
Ton doigt sur le tambour…
Laurence Chave, seven non-European percussion instruments
Kern
Frédéric Stochl, double bass
Ritorno
Bernard de Vienne, flute in G
Laurence Chave, vibraphone
Yod
Romain Tallet, baritone saxophone
Oxphale, first performance
Ophélie and Alexandre Julita, violins
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