Jean-Francois Charles

You are invited this Friday, October 14th, at the School of Music for a showcase by the Public Digital Arts cluster faculty. My colleagues Kyle Rector (Computer Science), Daniel Miller (School of Art & Art History - Sculpture Area), Mike Gibisser (Department of Cinematic Arts), Daniel Fine (Theatre Arts | Dance), Andrew Casto (School of Art & Art History - Ceramics), Steve Baek (College of Engineering Mechanical & Industrial Engineering), and I will be presenting aspects of our creative research. I will be showing live interactive music with PhD candidate composer Nima Hamidi .

Interesting sounds in Iowa City! On September 13th, an improbable and very musical trio performed at the Uptown Bill's Coffee House ... Art of mixing: Live electronic music & brownies! Inverted Theremin Peter played a unique Theremin this night: not only was it an original Moog Theremin, but mostly its volume control was inverted: the closer your hand comes to the volume bar, the loudest the sound. This is really unusual: in old videos, Clara Rockmore played with the volume being minimum when touching the bar, and it is the same with modern Theremins. Inside, analog electronics:

I composed Rotonde for the new piano acquired by the Music section of INSA in Lyon . I had the great pleasure of performing the piece with pianist Vincent Leterme during Electrocution 2016. This concert took place in the art space Passerelle in Brest; here is the live recording.

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...

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 .