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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Maurice Ohana, bird catcher
Cdmc
Coordination Bruno Giner, François Porcile
“You have to be a birdman to catch sounds without killing them”, as Maurice Ohana liked to say. We celebrate the centenary of his birth and he is still the “famous unknown”, as he was hailed on his death on 13 November 1992. His music, so individual and so singular, an exact mirror of his fierce independence, cannot be reduced to a label or a classification. Its rich variety lies elsewhere, in a free-ranging synthesis of all ethnic and historical trends, upon which this day study session will seek to cast light.
9h30 Portrait. The ‘three idols’ of Maurice Ohana
François Porcile, cineast and musicologist
10h30 Maurice Ohana, or a free spirit confronted by postwar aesthetic dogmas
Bruno Giner, composer
11h Maurice Ohana and microintervallism
Alain Louvier, composer
11h45 Medieval models in the work of Maurice Ohana
Vincent Trollet, composer, in discussion with Frédéric Rantières, medievalist singer and researcher
14h30 Free writing and notation in Maurice Ohana
Edith Canat de Chizy, composer
15h The singularity of Maurice Ohana’s vocal world
Roland Hayrabédian, director of Musicatreize
15h30 The vocal art of Maurice Ohana, a bridge between amateur and professional performers
Guy Reibel, composer
16h15 The genesis of Maurice Ohana’s music theatre and the lure of the Far East
François-Bernard Mâche, composer in discussion with Pierre Barrat, stage direcxtor
16h45 Round table on Maurice Ohana’s music theatre with the participation of François-Bernard Mâche, composer, Pierre Barrat, stage director, Philippe Nahon, conductor, Ton Thât Tiêt, composer and (to be confirmed) Felix Ibarrondo
Musical interludes
Tiento
Tania Chagnot, guitar
Quatre improvisations
Marie Bénichou, solo flute
Sarc
Emmanuel Rey, solo oboe
Aube et Plahn extracts from Si le jour paraît
Tania Chagnot, 10-string guitar