06 May 2009 | Wednesday 20:30
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Duration: 20'
Full: 18 TL Discount: 12 TL
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Light Music is a truly magical performance resulting from the collaboration between the renowned composer and film-maker Thierry de Mey and percussionist Jean Geoffroy in which they explore new movement-sensitive technologies. While the performance unfolds - at the frontiers between visuals, sound and choreography - movement emerges through its diverse modalities of perception, enabling the audience to experience temporal shifts and leaps into the imaginary.
Light Music is a new stage in a series of pieces - Hands (1983), Musique de tables (1987), Unknowness (1996), Silence must be! (2002) - exploring the tension at the frontier between movement and the sound produced; between visuals and sound; between written choreography and music. Using new movement-sensitive technology, with nothing more than hand gesture, the conductor/soloist or the percussionist with no percussion instruments can generate sounds and musical sequences, play with them in time and space, and create loops, breaks, resonances, etc. The title is, of course, a play on words: this is "light" music because apart from the computer there are no instruments; and this is music made with light, the changes in the patches of luminescence being the determining factor in the seizing of the movements. Here movement is an interface: between different modes of sensory perception, between performer and machine, between the algorithms of intuition and their expression as music, between written choreography and the score, and between the conductor's movements and the musical execution of the orchestra... - Thierry De Mey
Conception and composition: Thierry de Mey | Performer, conductor/soloist: Jean Geoffroy | Conception of the interactive systems: Christophe Lebreton (Grame) | Production: A Grame, National Center for Musical Creation/Lyon | Co-production: with Charleroi/Danses, Centre Chorégraphique de la Communauté Française | In collaboration with: Gmem, National Center for Musical Creation /Marseille (Gmem-French Cultural Ministry Commission)
Thierry De Mey (1956) is a Belgian composer and filmmaker. The intuition of movement and bounds is undoubtedly the guiding element in his work: "refusing to view rhythm as a simple combination of intervals within a time grid, but instead as a system which generates momentums for falls and new developments" is the postulate behind his music and films. A large part of his music production is intended for dance and cinema. He has often been more than a composer for the choreographers Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Wim Vandekeybus and his sister Michèle Anne De Mey, offering his precious collaboration in the invention of "formal strategies" - to use a favorite expression of his. Among his main work let us mention Rosas danst Rosas, Amor constante, April me, Kinok (choreographies by A. T. De Keersmaeker); What the body does not remember, Les porteuses de mauvaises nouvelles, Le poids de la main (choreographies by W. Vandekeybus); Dantons Töd (dir. Bob Wilson); Musique de tables, Frisking pour percussions, un quatuor à cordes, Counter Phrases, etc. Thierry De Mey's work has received national and international awards (Bessie Awards, Eve du Spectacle, Forum des compositeurs de l'Unesco, FIPA, etc). Since the foundation of PARTS, he has been the director of the choreographic composition programme. Since July 2005, Thierry De Mey is artistic director of Charleroi/Danses (Belgium) along with Pierre Droulers, Michele Anne De Mey and Vincent Thirion.
J. Geoffroy won the First Prize in percussion at the Paris Conservatory in 1985, and invented a personal path in the world of percussion. He was solo timpanist with the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris from 1985 to 2000, and was a soloist with the contemporary music ensemble Court-Circuit. Geoffroy was advisor for composition students at IRCAM and many composers have written percussion pieces for him, including: I. Malec, J.L Campana, F. Durieux, E. Tanguy, P. Leroux, Y. Taïra, T. De Mey. He is a regular guest soloist at the most prestigious European festivals and has given recitals in all major European cities as well as USA and Japan. He won the Menuhin Foundation's "Présence de la Musique" award. Jean Geoffroy has participated as a soloist in more than 20 recordings including "Attacca" P. Leroux solo, "Per-Tre/Contours" B. Giner, "Je est un autre" J.L Campana, "Noctal" J.L Campana, "E. Tanguy solo", "Bach Cello suites" (2CD) and "Marim'Bach." He authored La classe de percussion, un carrefour published by the Cité de la Musique, in which he provides teaching methods for music. A passionate teacher, author of several educative books and methods, director of the Lemoine Editions' percussion collection, he taught at the ParisConservatoire Natoinal Supérieur as Teaching Assistant from 1993 to 1998. He is currently Professor at the Conversatoire national supérieur de musique (Lyon) and at the Conservatoire supérieur (Geneva).
Further Reading:
Thierry de Mey-Wikipedia
Thierry de Mey -Ictus
Jean Geoffroy
Grame
Gmem
Interview with Thierry de Mey.pdf (.PDF)
Le monde Le Soir (.PDF)
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