October 25, 2017

Time:	10:00
Location:	Aula Bianchini
Category:	Conference

Luigi Pizzaleo

Professor at Conservatorio Santa Cecilia (Roma)

Jean-Claude Risset. Metafore e archetipi del linguaggio elettroacustico

Saranno esaminati gli aspetti più rilevanti della poetica di Jean-Claude Risset ed in particolare le connessioni profonde tra la musica e la scienza che il compositore ha esplorato. La Master class, articolata in ascolti e analisi, ospita il sassofonista Enzo Filippetti che eseguirà il brano Voilements

Jean-Claude Risset	Voilements • 14’00
	pour saxophone ténor et bande magnétique

Voilements [1987] is dedicated to saxophonist Daniel Kientzy, who developed special performance technique used in the piece.The soloist dialogues with a tape. The tape first echoes the soloist, multiplying his sound, but it also alters its way of playing, it warps it, as a wheel which does not go round (the word Voilements alludes to a veil or a sail, but is also means buckles or warps). The equal temperament tuning is eroded, the tension increases, up to a point where melodic lines get twisted into loops. Then, as if there were a zoom backwards, the pacific background for the gestures of the soloist, who uses various performance techniques.The tape was realized digitally in Marseille (Faculté des Sciences de Luminy et Laboratoire de Mecanique et d’Acoustique du CNRS). Sounds recorded by Daniel Kientzy have been transformed with the SYTER audioprocessor designed at INA-GRM by Jean-Francois Allouis. The tape also includes sounds synthesized in non real-time with the MUSIC V program, implemented on a IBM-PC compatible micro-computer: these sounds, however, have been specified in real time on MIDI keyboard; the MIDI code has been transcribed into MUSIC V code. These possibilities have been developed by Daniel Arfib, Frédéric Boyer, Pierre Dutilleux, Richard Kronland and Patrick Sanchez.