Jean-Francois Charles

After working for two years in the Bellevue neighborhood in Brest, we are thrilled to announce the final concerts! A hundred children from four schools and one after-school program are performing with great artists from Ensemble Sillages : Stéphane Sordet, saxophones Céline Rivoal, accordion Maxime Echardour, percussion Gilles Deliège, viola Ingrid Schoenlaub, cello Cédric Monjour & Van Hien Bui, musicians, and teachers at the Brest Conservatory Henri-Pierre Deroux, artist Concerts Sunday, May 29th - 5 p.m. Conservatory Auditorium Rue Émile Zola, Brest Tuesday, May 31st - 6 p.m. Bellevue City Hall 25 Place Napoléon III, Brest Program Composing for this Improbable Orchestr'A was a commission from Ensemble Sillages. The program includes the following scenes: Avola , Mayotte song N’Guru Bwe , Mayotte song Kerhallouest Musical Brigade #1 Gnagna Bwe , Mayotte song Lapalu for viola & orchestra Passage for percussion & live electronics Kerhallouest Music...

A couple of days ago, I was talking with my friend composer Davide Ianni . He is currently very busy co-organizing this April 25-29 IRCAM residence at BUCNM, the Boston University Center for New Music . This event includes public lectures, demonstrations, a scientific conference, workshops, and two concerts at the ICA . On April 28th, you'll hear classics: Pierre Boulez Anthèmes 2 Beat Furrer Gaspra and Aria Tristan Murail L’esprit des dunes On April 29th, the JACK quartet is performing: Chaya Czernowin Hidden (US premiere) Jonathan Harvey String Quartet No. 4 Among the workshops, composer Grégoire Lorieux will be presenting Orchids - Grégoire is one of the best connoisseurs of this computer assisted orchestration software; he used it in several of his compositions. Grégoire was in Brest during the Electrocution 2016 festival .

I'm delighted to play bass clarinet on Sunday with the Ensemble Sable & Ciel. After Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Two piano sonata by Marine Lombard & Claire Prévôt, Joël Doussard will be conducting: The Four Last Songs by Richard Strauss, starring guest soprano Helen Kearns Maurice Ravel's Tombeau de Couperin The concert is taking place on Sunday, April 24th, at 5 p.m., in the beautiful concert hall at the Brest conservatory.

Thanks to Philippe Arrii-Blachette's relentless energy, we are performing (with Ensemble Sillages ) Stockhausen 's Mikrophonie I in Paris this Friday (after our January performance of Mikrophonie I ). I hope you can come hear this music, rarely performed. The concert is taking place at église Saint-Merry , in the Rendez-vous contemporains season. The program features also great music by Jean-Luc Hervé, and Javier Torres Maldonado: Jean-Luc Hervé: Horizons inclinés (Ciacconia) , for violin & acousmatic system Javier Torres Maldonado: Cuarteto de Cuerdas número 2 , for string quartet Karlheinz Stockhausen: Mikrophonie I (1964), for two percussionists, two microphonists, and audio filters We had rehearsals in the church today: the sound is quite warm. It is a pleasure to work with the great team of La Muse en Circuit , our partners for the sound system.

Tonight, I'm thrilled to perform with great artists: Passage , for percussion & live electronics, is premièred by percussionist Maxime Échardour. later, we are performing Rotonde , for piano & live electronics, with pianist Vincent Leterme. I am very excited, and very grateful to them and to the Electrocution festival organized by Ensemble Sillages. I hope to see you there tonight. More information: Electrocution festival 2016 .

Last year, I told you about the Metallum installation : a ritual toupin , with imaginary echoes sent back by the rock faces of my native mountains. Here is a short video: Link: Metallum on youtube .

Today in Quimper, Bretagne, France. I'll be introducing Sonic Pi to a group of teenagers. Later, during the Codelab meeting , I'll be showing my environment for live graphically-based spectral sound processing. Great workshops are taking place today, including field-recording, recording a folk-rock band, mixing and remixing one of their tracks. Organized by Musique & Danse en Finistère .