Parliament of Angels 2024 IRCAM
ULYSSES Collaboraty Cine-concert: percussion and electronics – behind the scenes
An inspired synthesis of instrumental music and the multiple possibilities of electronics, mixed music for solo percussionist and electronics offers a flexible, yet powerful profusion of sound. On one side, we have the rich palette of the soloist, with their dramatic presence on stage, their virtuosity, their rich sounds, their experience, their charisma… on the other, all the extensions of sound, timbre, space and time, as well as the possibility of superimposing several sound planes that electronics make possible.
Composer Martin Matalon and the BL!NDMAN [drums] collective offered six young composers a cinema-concert workshop, in which they created original scores for silent comedy films. Several composers were able to share the musical setting of the same medium-length film. Others could propose different compositions for the same short film.
This Collaboratory workshop welcomed ULYSSES composers Natalia Laguens Getino, Ján Števuliak and Krõõt-Kärt Kaevon their ULYSSES Journeys.
The results of this workshop can be heard and seen in the programme SLAP STICKS, with a premiere on 20 May 2025 in Geraardsbergen, followed by a tour.
Martin Matalon: artistic director
Eric Sleichim: artistic director BL!NDMAN
Serge Lemouton: Ircam pedagogical support
João Svidzinski: Ircam pedagogical support
BL!NDMAN [drums]
Hannes Nieuwlaet: percussion
Yves Goemaere: percussion
Ward De Ketelaere: percussion
Gideon Van Canneyt: percussion
Creations by composer trainees
Krõõt-Kärt Kaev
Anne Castex
Natalia Laguens
Ji young Lee
Mario Moya Sánchez
Ján Števuliak
Based on the medium-length film The Cook by Buster Keaton and the short films Bubbles, Invisible Ink and Trip to Mars from Max Fleisher’s Out of the Inkwell series.
As part of the Fête de la Musique
As part of Parliament of Angels
Produced by Ircam-Centre Pompidou, BL!NDMAN
Special thanks to FPA CLASSICS – (Lobster Films Collection)
Special thanks to Serge Bromberg
With the support of the ULYSSES network, subsidised by the European Union’s Creative Europe programme
Ircam is a partner of CENTQUATRE-PARIS for the hosting of experimental projects in the field of live performance.
