Music
Stefano Gervasoni
De Tinieblas
18 Jun 2022
The event is over
De Tinieblas is Stefano Gervasoni's magnum opus, his lessons of darkness inspired by Spanish poet José Angel Valente. The poetry and music are infused with the history of this genre of liturgical music that developed in France in the 17th century.
Gervasoni's electronics add a virtual choir to the real choir in a surreptitious or invasive manner. Either in the same space as the real choir or in virtual spaces, playing with response and masking effects, creating acoustic illusions. Pachini's video contributes an added light to these contemporary lessons of darkness. "I think of composition from a dual point of view: the creation of musical objects and the creation of conditions for listening to them." Stefano Gervasoni relates intimately to the musical thinking of Helmut Lachenmann, an encounter that was decisive in every way. In the first part, Lachenmann's new string trio, sought after by the research ensemble for several decades.
Encounter
Saturday 18 June, 7.00 pm / Ircam, Stravinsky room
Projection of Images d’une œuvre n°26: De Tinieblas (Images of a Work no. 26: De Tinieblas) by Stefano Gervasoni. A film by Véronique Caye, with the collaboration of Philippe Langlois.
Free admission, subject to availability.
Part of the ManiFeste-2022 festival presented by the Ircam
Part 1
The research ensemble string trio
Melise Mellinger: violin
Geneviève Strosser: alto
Åsa Åkerberg: cello
Helmut Lachenmann, œuvre nouvelle (new work), French creation
Stefano Gervasoni, Abri (Shelter), French creation
Part 2
SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart
Yuval Weinberg: direction
Benoit Meudic: Ircam electronics
Paolo Pachini: video (production SWR)
Stefano Gervasoni, De Tinieblas, French creation
Ircam/Live Shows-Centre Pompidou coproduction
When
8:30pm - 9:30pm
Where
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