Kontakte
Les 6 toits
Laboratoire des arts vivants
Genève
Programme
Julie Semoroz
HAI (Human-Animal
Interaction) (création)
pour deux voix
et ensemble
Matteo Gualandi
Nouvelle oeuvre (création)
pour voix et ensemble
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Kontakte (1958-1960)
pour piano, percussion
et bande
Distribution
Borbala Szuromi
Voix (Prix Contrechamps)
Maximilian Haft
Violon
Hans Egidi
Alto
Martina Brodbeck
Violoncelle
Antoine Françoise
Piano
Thierry Debons
Percussion
David Poissonnier
Réalisateur en
informatique musicale
Partenaires
Haute école de musique
de Genève-Neuchâtel
Ville de Genève
In a fjord in northern Norway, a contact microphone placed against the artist’s vocal chords captures her voice before it becomes underwater sound. A hydrophone records human/animal interaction in the form of sound waves that can’t be heard at the surface. Julie Semoroz captures this nascent contact music, further elaborating it by virtue of the common ground she shares with scientists on the NCCR evolving language program. Stockhausen’s Kontakte is on the opposite end of the spectrum, culminating in explosions of sound and fury emitted by a three-pronged entity amplified by four rotating loudspeakers surrounding the audience for an immersive sonic roller-coaster.