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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Encounter with the ensemble Télémaque
Established in Marseilles for fifteen years and directed by a composer, Raoul Lay, the ensemble Télémaque champions an opening out to all forms of creativity. Today it devotes a considerable part of its work to music theatre.
Programmed by the Festival d’Île-de-France for the show Desperate Singers, Télémaque has been invited by the Cdmc to explore its activities through the following themes:
Contemporary music and the stage: is the musical a spectacle?
Are composers and stage directors in perfect harmony… or almost?
Benjamin Dupé, composer
Jean-Paul Dessy, composer and conductor
Catherine Marnas, director
Benoist Baillergeau, artistic director of Ars Nova, instrumental ensemble
Video excerpt: Le Cabaret des valises
Contemporary music, audiences and the regions: battle plans…
Should a work be made accessible?
Dominique Boutel, journalist, producer at Radio-France
Jean-Michel Grémillet, director of the national theatre of Cavaillon
Jean-Luc Hervé, composer
Jean-Pascal Viault, stage director and director of Yonne-en-scène
Video excerpt: La Jeune Fille aux mains d’argent
Moderator: Dominique Boutel
Mini concert
Pierre Adrien Charpy Capuccino pour accordéon solo [2008]
Philippe Hersant Mélancholia pour contrebasse solo (extraits) [1989]
Raoul Lay Solos extraits du Cabaret des valises [2007]
Jean-Marc Fabiano, accordéon, Jean-Bernard Rière, contrebasse
With the contribution of the Festival d’Île-de-France
Free entrance
Picture Agnès Mellon