Sobralasolas ! - episode 3 (2012) -
Live Radiopeneara
Piloté par / Propelled by Björn Eriksson.
Commissioned by GRIM Marseilles (F) Jun 2012.
Part 1: Mirrors
  
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Episode 3 (2012) Live performance Marseille (F), GRIM - Sons de Plateaux #6 - June 22, 2012 Residency at GRIM, Marseille (F) Premiere with Caroline Bouissou (caroline), Björn Eriksson (miulew), Emmanuelle Gibello (miss purple), with guest artists : Nathalie Fougeras and and simultaneously in Montreal : Jérôme Joy (jerome), with guest artist : André Éric Létourneau (algojo)(algojo)
Informations : http://www.grim-marseille.com/grim/Sons_de_Plateaux.html http://www.grim-marseille.com/grim/SdP-22juin.html |
French version
Hormis être une expression tirée d'un roman de James Joyce, qui lui même s'est inspiré d'une valse de José Juventino Rosas, Sobralasolas! est un "radio-opéra live". Ce projet initié en 2007 avec pour but de réunir plusieurs artistes internationaux, n'est ni une fiction, ni un documentaire radiophonique. La série d'épisodes n'a pas de scénario préétabli ni d'histoire à raconter. Mais Sobralasolas collecte et mélange sons enregistrés lors de field recordings (enregistrements sur le terrain), improvisations réalisées en direct et tout autre type d'interactions sonores allant de la création électroacoustique à une narration contextuelle ou aléatoire. L'idée du projet est de faire émerger à travers télescopages et croisements, concrètement et virtuellement (par une collaboration à distance), un univers où le temps, l'espace, la fiction et la réalité se confondent dans un contexte déformé et aformel.
English version
The title Sobralasolas! is taken from the novel Finnegans Wake by James Joyce. SOBRALASOLAS! does not have a preestablished scenario, tells no story and is not a documentary. It is rather a place for glossolalies and echolalias, on-the-fly recordings and collected improvisations. SOBRALASOLAS! combines collected and improvised sounds, with the aim of creating a new listening and auditory environment, which is both fictional and real, time-specific and site-specific. The participating artists could be all located at different places around the world, and they improvise from there, orienting themselves only to a jointly developed score and/or to a performance driven by listening and by intuitive playings. Nobody knows what could happen or not.
CONTEXT :
French version
"Dans la continuation des oeuvres exploratoires de Sobralasolas!, initié en 2007 par Jérôme Joy, où chaque épisode apporte de nouvelles perspectives dans le travail de collaboration dans les champs du Sound Art, des arts radiophoniques et de la musique électronique. Pour ce troisième épisode, le groupe travaillera sur le thème du miroir. Les miroirs interfèrent avec l'écriture et la composition, et Mirror Works sera le résultat d'une performance où les musiciens interagissent et réagissent avec un réseau de miroirs, où les parties pourront être des improvisations, des "réflexions" sonores ou textuelles, ou encore la réflexion optique des miroirs en elle-même".
Björn Eriksson
English version
A continuation of the exploratory works of the Sobralasolas! a radio opera of live, streamed and recorded sounds, a collaborative project initiated in 2007 by Jerome Joy for a dynamic group of players. Each episode brings new perspectives around the collaborative ways to work on soundart / radiophonic / electronic music / improvisation both at distance and at near, telematic and direct.
For this third episode / "Mirror works" the group are working around the concept of mirrors. Mirrors are affecting the writing and composing. Episode 3 will are resulting in a mirrored performance where players are interacting and reacting through mirror interfaces according to a score which partly will be improvised, partly reflecting the sounds and texts and harmonics, partly reflecting the physical interfaces of mirrors. The coordinator of episode 3 is Björn Eriksson, one of the players in Sobralasolas team since 2007. Players for episode 3 are: Julien Bayle, Caroline Bouissou, Björn Eriksson, Nathalie Fougeras, Emmanuelle Gibello and Jérôme Joy (with guests : André Éric Letourneau).
Mirror reflecting images to the viewer. Clear images or distorted images depending on the condition of the mirror and the mirrored. The mirror as an interface, a tool for communication with its viewer and its users. Can a mirror reflect the same image to different viewers ? Can a mirror function as a shared object for discovering something not seen otherwise ? Mirrors of sound, language, gestures. How is the interaction between the viewer and the viewed (sometimes and often the same people, but not other viewing possible) The society seen through a mirror perspective ? The private seen through a mirror perspective ? The public seen through a mirror perspective ?
Questions to research :
Why use mirrors ?
Who uses mirrors ?
When is mirrors used ?
Where is mirrors used ?
How is mirrors used ?
And then to reflect about that soundwise, radioart, soundart, experimental music ? To compose something partly improvised, but yet following a protocol. Maybe somehow a bit inspired by Cornelius Cardew scores of The Great Learning... ? Simple but yet strong in the building.
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