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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Contemporary creation and world music
. At 18h, round table
The contribution of traditional music to the techniques of contemporary composition
Chaired by Jeanne Martine Vacher, producer for France Culture
Before the concert given by the ensemble Arcema, Jesus Villa-Rojo, Isabel Urrutia, Jorge Fernandez-Guerra, José Luis Campana, Bertrand Dubedout and Daniel Teruggi will debate the contribution of world music to their compositional processes. How, for example, each integrates into his or her composition rhythmic models from popular traditions; how each, using highly specific techniques and methods – belonging to our ‘European school of composition’ – has dealt with a type of music that has its own rules and modes of functioning. What of melodic curves and modes of play; of chordal structures and rhythmic polyphony; of pitch organisation; of the contribution of computerised music; of the possible use of traditionally made instruments alongside those that are western-built; of the necessity for specific forms of notation?
This debate, chaired by Jeanne Martine Vacher, will be illustrated live by Jean Geoffroy, percussion, Pierre Strauch, cello and Bertrand Chavarria, guitar. They will also debate their position as a performer vis-à-vis these new languages and materials, implying as they do other ways of approaching the instrument, and will discuss their experiences of playing with musicians from traditional cultures.
J. L. Campana
. At 19h, concert
Jesus Villa-Rojo Lamento (version B) for cello and electronic transformation on CD (world premiere)
Jorge Fernandez-Guerra Donc for solo cello (world premiere)
Bertrand Dubedout Veille de la pénitence à onze faces (From Nara) for electroacoustics
José Luis Campana Asi… for guitar and electronic transformation on CD
Daniel Teruggi Summer Band for bandoneon and tape
Isabel Urrutia Mandala for percussion and electronic transformation on CD
Soloists of the ensemble Arcema
Pierre Strauch, cello
Jean Geoffroy, percussion
Bertrand Chavarria, guitar
Artistic direction, José Luis Campana
Admission free, reservations 01 47 15 49 86
Coproduction Cdmc – Ensemble Arcema
With the support of the Sacem and of Ina/GRM