Jean-Francois Charles

After the anagrams & first sketch for the composition Relative , here is the score: Axelle and Théophile, two singers at the Montbéliard Conservatory, are performing the piece this Saturday afternoon. During the rehearsal yesterday night, I liked a lot how they seamlessly integrated the "live electronics" and the singing. This miniature constitutes a small part of their exam recital: I wish them all the best.

Picture by leniners I'm thrilled to let you know that, after spending wonderful time at the Montbéliard Conservatory , I just took a new position at the Brest Conservatory. Read here a short welcome interview (French only). Bretagne is filled with inspiring landscapes. Last week-end, I walked around the Kermorvan peninsula: Picture by y.caradec

Maria Guerrero studied at the Royal Ballet School in London , then had a career as a dancer, a choreographer, and a maître de ballet. I have been delighted to study ballet at her school, the Ballet Studio Guerrero , since October 2010. She is a great ballet teacher, anchored in the tradition, both very demanding and respectful with all students. The show At the end of April, Maria organized a show at La Coupole , a beautiful theater house in Saint-Louis, France. Dancing on a professionally equipped stage is such a fundamental experience for all dancers: it's necessary from a pedagogical point of view, and it is a lot of fun as well. Here is an excerpt of a piece Maria Guerrero choreographed for this show: Amazon.com Widgets

Relative is the short piece I composed for mezzo soprano, tenor, and live electronics . In the previous post, I told you the lyrics were based on anagrams (in French). Here they are: Mezzo-soprano: Relative      Tenor: La vérité ("the truth") Tenor: La courbure de l'espace-temps ("the curvature of space-time")      Mezzo-soprano: Superbe spectacle de l'amour These letter permutations come from a great short book of anagrams (in French), mixing poetry and fascination for science: By the way, I also used the permutations in the text as a basis to compose the sung melodies...

I was thrilled when Isabelle Jost, singer and professor at the Montbéliard conservatory, came up with a composition project for students of hers. To collaborate with colleagues who are great artists is among the missions and the pleasures of working in a dynamic pedagogical team. I just finished a draft of a very short piece for mezzo & tenor: they are going to perform it at their final recital this year, along with classical and romantic style. Live electronics are performed by the singers themselves, using Roland VE-20 vocal processors . Here is the score draft: The lyrics come from two anagrams, in French. Will you find them?

Composer Gabriele Vanoni has been a friend of mine since his arrival at the Harvard Music Department . He has been spending the year in Paris, taking part in the selective Ircam Cursus . Gabriele wrote a new piece for mezzo soprano & live electronics: Don . The world premiere is taking place on April 13th at Ircam in Paris. Entrance is free, but make sure you get in touch with Ircam to reserve. CF8FTJEMEG7D

PaaLabRes is a Laboratoire de recherche en actes sur des pratiques artistiques nomades et transversales - a lab in active research on nomad and transversal artistic activities. They are organizing a very exciting expo in Villeurbanne, at the Maison du Livre, de l'Image et du Son , today and tomorrow. All of the musicians involved in this project are great open-minded artists who love to collaborate and share their knowledge and experiences. One of the most exciting part of the expo is taking place this Saturday, March 16th, at 10:30 am. It consists in 3 labs open to visitors, who are going to create hybrid artistic objects: poésie sonore (sonorous poetry) with Jean-Charles François geste partitions et musiques sur des objets du quotidien (gesture scores and musics about everyday life objects) with clarinetist Pascal Pariaud la pâte à modeler le sonore (et réciproquement) (sound modeling clay - and vice versa) with Nicolas Sidoroff - as I already told you on this blog, compos...