Jean-Francois Charles

You are invited to this exhibition organized by the Touanen family in the French Alps near Evian. Johann is a photographer, Anne-Marie creates poetic natural & mechanical boxes, Élise is a graphic artist, Peggy is a collagist, Freddy recounts traditional & original Alpine stories, Suzanne bakes singular chocolate cakes, and I'm not even mentioning all contributing artists! I am taking part with an installation entitled Metallum , and with a multimedia setting of Freddy's books, including Les Mystères de la Montagne . The exhibition is open until Saturday, 7 p.m.

Last week, we had a first meeting with a dream team of musicians for a new performance of Stockhausen's Mikrophonie I : Hélène Colombotti , Vincent Leterme , Ève Payeur , Maxime Échardour , and Stéphane Sordet . Philippe Aarri-Blachette asked me to be responsible for the live electronics (I happened to already own the score when Philippe told me about his project). Get your tickets in September: Vibrations concert featuring Stockhausen's Mikrophonie I , on January 5th, 2016 in Brest. If you're interested in Mikrophonie I, a great ressource to learn how to read the score comes from Stockhausen himself :

We had a blast 2 weeks ago with 26 children of the Bellevue ward in Brest. As you can see in the picture, saxophonist Stéphane Sordet was there, as well as artist Henri-Pierre Deroux . It was the first step of a great project envisioned by Philippe Aarri-Blachette, artistic director of Ensemble Sillages : stay tuned, this Improbable Orchestr'A will be back next year!

Coming in July 2015: Metallum is an interactive alpine cow bell ( toupin ). Necessary to a successful emmontagnée , the toupin is interpreted here as the alpine equivalent of Asian percussions, such as the Japanese singing bowl (rin gong), or the Chinese opera cymbals. A ritual bell, which sounds like a call to imagination and like an echo sent back by the rock faces of my native mountains. A queen & her toupin... Picture from 20min.ch

A picture of my May experiments with graphically based sound processing:

Looking for the studio album? Visit www.electroclarinet.com Thanks Dominique Rybakov, for her picture, and her listening!

Accordionist Céline Rivoal, a teacher at Brest conservatory, is passionate about new music, written or improvised. During the electrocution festival , on Friday, March 27th, Céline is playing the French première of Testo , by Composer Davide Ianni . This piece is written for accordion & live electronics, with quadrophonic sound projection. Note that this composition used to be called Forme in Scia - you may listen to a recording in Davide Ianni's Listening Room . Davide studied with Joshua Fineberg , a great composer and connoisseur of spectral music. You can hear this in Davide's music, with his careful attention to timbre, to how the electronics and the live accordion fade in and out of each other. Davide programmed the live electronics are made with Max . Accordion explained to composers Davide worked with accordionist Luca Piovesan. Download his free e-book: accordion4composers . He also just released a new album: Luca Piovesan - Sul Tasto (amazon.com link).