Jean-Francois Charles

JetFM is a non-profit radio based in Nantes, France. Histoires d'Ondes is their program dedicated to radiophonic art, fiction, documentary, and sonic postcards. My composition Rotonde, for piano & live electronics , was featured in the July 7th broadcast . It is a live recording of our performance with pianist Vincent Leterme . You will also hear in the same program Série-C, for prepared piano & stereo soundtrack by composer Pierre Jodlowski . The music was recorded during the Electrocution music festival in Brest , by Annaig Chaslot, Clément Crubilé & Mélanie Morin, and mixed for binaural listening by Clément Crubilé.

The Composit New Music Festival opened tonight with a welcome aperitif at the Rive Gauche Café in Rieti . Tomorrow, the courses will start with guest composers Pierluigi Billone and Stefano Gervasoni, as well as with artistic director & composer Davide Ianni . I will be teaching the electronic music program - provisional schedule looks like this: Tuesday July 5th 10:00 – 13:30 Workshop 1 - Spectral Sound 14:30 – 16:30 Improvisation session 1 + exploration of effects used in the composition Passage, for percussion & electronics Wednesday July 6th 10:00 – 13:30 Workshop 2 - Max, FFT & spectral sound processing, Jitter basics 14:30 – 17:30 INSTRUMENTAL WORKSHOP (Angèle Chemin, Soprano) or private lesson with J-F Charles Thursday July 7th 10:00 – 13:30 Workshop 3 - Vocoder & phase vocoder. Also, special guest Michele Zaccagnini presents Max, Processing, the brain, and more. 14:30 – 17:30 INSTRUMENTAL WORKSHOP (Strings, with the mdi ensamble) or private less