MUSIQUE CONCRÈTE
(2015)
Cycle of pieces for sound objects and tape
(visuals are optional)
ca. 26´
Musique concrete makes music with second-hand objects, mostly bought in the markets or rescued from the trash. Two performers manipulate sound-objects and slide-projectors in different spots of a dark room, producing performative-installations in dialogue with the architecture of the space. Music, sound, and space-design are organized in a score creating complete audiovisual scenes with simple means.
Flexible in format, “Musique concrète” could be played as a whole cycle, or in individual scenes.
A concert version (without visuals) is also possible.
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PIECE BY PIECE
Machine à coudre (sewing machine) for sewing machine, scissors, nails, tape and optional crank-hand projector. Recorded objects are in counterpoint with the ones played live. A 5mm movie made with dots punched in the film by the same sewing machine follow the music.
Ventilateurs (electric fans) for 2 ventilators and 2 flash lights: small flash lights convert turning fans into home-made projectors. Different speeds on the fans modify the movement of the shadows on space.
La radio…cette chambre des merveilles (The radio… that chambre of wonders) for live radio, tape and hand-crank projector. The tape is based on excerpts of Pierre Schaeffer’s voice from Solfège de l’objet sonore (1967). A home made movie comments Schaeffer´s texts.
Electricité (electricity) for string telephone, tape and 2 optional slide projectors: is the story of a cable projected into a light circus circle. The sound possibilities of a simple string telephone are wide and surprising. Buzzing, shortcuts, statics, clicks and humming sounds conform the sound track accompanying the live string-telephone.
Music and visuals composed by Cecilia Arditto
Video links
Trailer Musique Concrète
https://vimeo.com/1037344469
0. Musique Concrète – FULL CYCLE
https://vimeo.com/278743997
Links individual pieces
1. Machine a coudre (sewing machine)
https://vimeo.com/278743997#t=4m45s
2. Ventilateurs (fans) – Motors
https://vimeo.com/278743997#t=23m12s
3. La radio
https://vimeo.com/278743997#t=10m16s
4. Electricité (electricity)
https://vimeo.com/278743997#t=0m13s
5. Le plateau tournant (pickup player)
https://vimeo.com/278743997#t=20m13s
6. Machine à écrire (typewriter)
https://vimeo.com/278743997#t=15m24s
Audio links (tapes + props)
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Press
Performance story
2023
• 3 June -Trio Feedback – Mostra Sonora 2023, Sueca, Valencia, Spain
Sound arguments symposium.
https://www.loosdenhaag.com/agenda/musique-concrte-but-differently-by-cecilia-arditto?fbclid=IwAR2EdZIeTids-eTvfW–eC1yR5UgEgVfOnflozvq1nmnjMEyosULvpTLmp0
Sound arguments symposium.
https://cobussen.com/category/conference/
2022
• July 2022 ISCM World New Music Days 2022; Q Theatre, New Zealand. Musique concréte guest artists: Eric Renick
2021
• 24 September 3r Cycle “El Generador” AMEBA A.A.G.G. Girona Spain
• 17-10-21 Neue Musik in St. Ruprecht, Vienna – Included in the program “The attic”
2020
• 23 January, Musique Concrète, Splendor, Amsterdam
2019
• 3 November Musique Concrète November Music Den Bosch – Netherlands
• 18 July Musique Concrète selected by Nieuwe Geneco to represent The Netherlands in ISCM 2020 in New Zeeland
• 22 September – Musique Concrète by Isak Goldschneider, clarinet
Cecilia Arditto, magic lanterns
Naada Yoga Montreal
https://innovationsenconcert.ca/event/lancement
2018
• 20 September –Musique concrète by Neo-percusión
Festival Vertixe Sonora
Pazo da Cultura de Pontevedra, Spain
Festival mAdrid aCTUAL
Teatro Galileo, calle Galileo 39 – Madrid, Spain
#5. Electricity and #7. The typewriter
Actual Festival Àgora Percussió
Conservatory of Music Xàbia, Spain
2017
• December 2017 Musique Concrete video shooting Amsterdam – Edu Hernández Pérez, video; Daniel Nicolas aditional camera
2015
• May 2015 Musique Concrète grant by Storsignal (call for scores), Lubeck, Germany
2013
• December 2013 – Musique Concrete NFPK – werkbeurs granted