VORTEX TEMPORUM
Gérard Grisey and Zeynep Toraman
Gérard Grisey and Zeynep Toraman
Festival Archipel
Salle communale de Plainpalais, Geneva
Rue de Carouge 52, 1205 Geneva
Subscription concert
PROGRAM
Gérard Grisey
Vortex Temporum I, II, III
(1994-1996)
for instrumental ensemble
Zeynep Toraman
Sometimes at Night the Far Away Stars
(Creation)
for instrumental ensemble
and electronics
Co-commission Ircam-Centre Pompidou,
Archipel and Contrechamps
CAST
ENSEMBLE CONTRECHAMPS
Susanne Peters, flute
Laurent Bruttin, clarinet
Antoine Françoise, piano
Simon Aeschimann, guitar
Maximilian Haft, violin
Hans Egidi, viola
Martina Brodbeck, cello
Matthieu Baumann, lighting management
Yann Brecy, electronics Ircam
Luca Bagnoli, sound diffusion Ircam
PARTNERS
Festival Archipel
Ircam-Centre Pompidou
Ville de Genève
Canton de Genève
Festival Archipel
Fondation Philanthropique Famille Sandoz
Ernst Göhner Stiftung
Pro Helvetia
Loterie Romande
How do you perform songs without a vocalist ? For this co-com- mission, Zeynep Toraman has joined forces with the teams at Ircam in Paris to develop a synthetic voice – disembodied and uncanny – that interacts with the instrumental ensemble. In response, Gérard Grisey’s Vortex Temporum offers a kind of “desynthesis”, revealing the full richness of instrumental timbre.
Concert followed by an aperitif-vernissage for the release of Zeynep Toraman's vinyl Castle Terraces in Barry Lyndon on Contrechamps | Speckled-Toshe's label
