The Cdmc holds a unique collection representing all aesthetics within musical creation. This collection has grown thanks to the collaboration of composers, publishers and Radio France. With a consultation area open to the public, the centre also affords access to many online resources through the Catalogue and the Gateway to Contemporary Music. A beacon of the latest music news with its website, the Cdmc organises encounters with the movers and shakers of contemporary music.
The Cdmc presents a season of encounters, seminars and day study sessions designed to counterpoint the views of specialists and professionals and to spotlight composers and performers. Focussing on topical aspects of the music scene, they are organised in collaboration with the main players of musical creation: ensembles, centres for creation, festivals, etc., as well as with those involved in research, the universities and conservatories. Dédicaces (Dedications): these are encounters featuring newly released books, discs or DVDs.
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Composing today on instruments of yesterday
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Coordination Bruno Giner, Lucie Kayas, Marianne Muller, Sylvie Pébrier
Creative work in this early twenty-first century is multiple, plural and prolific. While new, permanently evolving technologies generate more and more creative enthusiasm, a few instruments, ‘old’ by several centuries, with a relatively unchanging construction, are also a catalyst for various composing impulses.
A contradiction? Certainly not. A paradox? Perhaps not so much as one might at first think. Composer’s imaginations are always on the lookout for new pathways of sound and ‘historic’ instruments (viola da gamba, traverso, cornetto, theorbo and the various recorders) are more than ever stimulating their insatiable ears.
This half-day session will attempt a first multilateral examination (performers, composers, musicologists, publishers) of the different issues in this age-old - and age-new! - question.
Moderator Jeanne-Martine Vacher
/// Admission free, reservation 01 47 15 49 86
. 14h Early music and creation: a paradoxical encounter?
Sylvie Pébrier, director of the Cimac (Cité des Musiques Anciennes et de la Création)
. 14h30 Presentation of a corpus of listed works
Lucie Kayas, teacher at the Paris Conservatory with her students
. 15h Musical interlude
. 15h30 The MAIA collection (Music of today for early instruments)
François Dhalmann, publisher
. 16h The instrumentalist’s point of view
Round table with Marianne Muller, viola da gamba, Robin Troman, recorder, Caroline Delume, lute and theorbo
. 16h30 The composer’s point of view
Round table with Daniel D'Adamo, Eric Fischer, Bruno Gillet, Bruno Giner, Karim Haddad, Madeleine Isaksson, Jean-Christophe Marti
. 17h Musical interlude
Musical interludes
Bruno Gillet À la clairvoyance
Lucia Nigohossian, mezzo, Marianne Muller, viola da gamba
Madeleine Isaksson Les 7 vallées
Robin Troman, recorder
Karim Haddad Purple Cloud on the Edge of the invisible Sea
Caroline Delume, theorbo
Eric Fischer Topographic long range
Marianne Muller and Liam Fennelly, violas da gamba
Bruno Giner Plainte
Marianne Muller, viola da gamba
Daniel D'Adamo Nuits-Cassation (extract)
François Charruyer and Nicolas André, bassoons
Joe Carver, double bass
Ensemble Philidor
Artistic direction Daniele Latini
Jean Christophe Marti Cinq fils à vièle
Text by Alexander Dickow
Geoffroy Buffière, baritone-bass
Nicolas Sansarlat, bowed hurdy-gurdy
Joël Grare, percussion
Ensemble Diabolus in Musica,
Artistic direction Antoine Guerber
Ensemble from the Cimac
Partnership Cdmc – Cimac – Paris Conservatory