Musical creation and gardens # 2

Parc de Bercy, Pavillon du Lac

Coordination Sophie Barbaux and Patrick Scheyder

In the spring of 2009 the Cdmc, in collaboration with the City of Paris and ‘Cultures aux gardens’, organised a first day session bringing together musicians and gardeners, landscapers and composers, journalists and philosophers. The vitality of the exchanges and the diversity of the subjects led the partners to offer a new session on this theme of the bringing together of musical creation and the vegetable kingdom.

From commission to creation, a collective adventure

Following the principle of the commissioning body/artiste pairing, several creations in preparation, currently underway or already realised will be related by two voices. There will be discussion of the project’s genesis, intentions, venue and context; the choice of the artiste by the commissioning body; the meeting between the composer and the venue with its specificities (advantages and constraints); the relationship that is established between the garden – the setting for the musical creation – and the artiste who for a time takes possession of it for the projection of his imagination; the necessary means – human, technical and financial; the evolution of the project during its conception, then during its realisation and the exchanges between the commissioning body and the artiste throughout these various phases; finally, the reactions, the feedback, both from the public and from the personnel – gardeners, guardians... – attached to the particular landscape area.

Moderator: Sophie Barbaux, landscaper

. 9h30 : Welcome by Laure Marcel-Berlioz, director of the Cdmc.
Introduction by Patrick Scheyder, pianist, composer, improviser, president of the federation ‘Cultures aux jardins’.

. 10h : Kiosks and musical creation
Sylvie Depondt, deputy director for animation and communication with the directorate for Green Spaces and the Environment of the City of Paris.

. 10h30 : Displacements, fluidity: putting into perspective
Raphael de Vivo, director of the Gmem-Marseille and a composer.

. 11h : Culture in the gardens of Beauvais
Patrick Scheyder and Jean-Luc Bourgeois, local councillor in charge of Green Spaces for the City of Beauvais.

. 11h30 : Parks in movement
Thierry de Mey, composer & film director and Marjolaine Hanssens, director of the Domaine du Château de Seneffe (Belgium).

. 12h : At the genesis of a collaboration
Antoine Jacobsohn, head of the King’s Kitchen Garden service & teacher at the ENSP of Versailles, and Nicolas Vérin, composer.

. 12h30 : Summing up of the morning session
Malika Souyah, journalist for Paysage Actualités.

Sensorial experiences

Several projects, featuring the listening process but also on the body and its other senses, will be presented by composers, landscapers, designers and plastic artistes.

Moderator: Patrick Scheyder

. 14h30 : Steps in sound
Pierre Redon, sound and visual artiste and Caroline Coll, director of the Abbaye de Maubuisson.

. 15h : Panorama of experiences
Sophie Barbaux, landscaper.

. 15h30 : A ‘blind’ walk in Versailles park
Michel Racine, architect, landscaper, urbanist and teacher at the ENSP of Versailles.

. 16h : ‘Sonopter’, an audio-solar armchair
Michel Redolfi, composer.

. 16h30 : Satie’s benches*
Marc Aurel, designer and Michel Redolfi, composer.

. 17h : Summing up of the afternoon session
Malika Souyah, journalist for Paysage Actualités.

* A ‘Satie bench’ will be set up in front of the Pavillon du Lac.

Admission free, reservations 01 47 15 49 86
Partnership Cdmc – Cultures aux jardins – City of Paris

Pavillon du Lac
Parc de Bercy
Métro 14, Cour Saint-Emilion