DER LETZTE MANN (UNEARTH/Ensemble 21, Premiere 2022)
Long excerpt with musicians (Live performance) (from the middle to the end ≈ 45min)
Produced and commissioned by UNEARTH
for Ensemble & electronics
DER LETZTE MANN was premiered by Ensemble 21, Laszlo Umbreit, and Christophe Guiraud, on 21 may 2022, at Studio THOR Brussels.
Composed by Christophe Guiraud and Laszlo Umbreit.
"𝑻𝒐𝒅𝒂𝒚, 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕, 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒐𝒏𝒆, 𝒂 𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓,
𝒂 𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒍, 𝒎𝒂𝒚𝒃𝒆 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒂 𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒆 -
𝑫𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖’𝒍𝒍 𝒃𝒆 𝒕𝒐𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒐𝒘?! "
Musicians are :
Mar Sala Romagosa, Julia Wetzel : Paetzold recorders (basset / doublebass)
Laurent Houque, Inês Vilarinho, Lydie Duffau : Vl1, Vl2, Vl3
Akiko Okawa, Julie Michael : Vla1, Vla2
Cyril Simon, Pieter Lenaerts : Vcl, Doublebass
Christophe Guiraud : Realtime electronics and tapes
Direction : Marc Collet
Laszlo Umbreit : Independent electronic & field-recording parts
Christophe Guiraud composes a score for large ensemble lasting around an hour.
Laszlo Umbreit composes various electronic frames lasting around half an hour.
These two compositional blocks are cut into several sub-divisions, in order to be intertwined between them, like a mosaic, as a parallel to Murnau's expressionism.
Technomorph hauntology is the core of the whole musical piece.
It is an unusual cine-concert, the musical piece is autonomous, and nevertheless dedicated to Murnau's film.
Breaking radically with the traditional cine-concert form, where the music sticks to the narrative flow, this sound fresco interferes in a subtle way in the poetic substance of the movie.
𝑨 𝒔𝒐𝒓𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒚 𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂 𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒔 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆.
Dans les ciné-concerts produits par UNEARTH, on retrouve la citation comme formule matricielle du projet :
{ Citation / apparitions / réminiscences / hallucinations / acculturation }
(un hommage à la pensée Pasolinienne et à la musique d’apparitions de The Caretaker)
Messiaen, Ligeti, Karkowski, ainsi que Grisey, seront cités au sein de cette série de ciné-concerts.
La citation est ainsi abordée comme quelque chose qui aurait disparu, mais existe tel un mirage, une fumée aveugle et visionnaire.
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Régie/image/recording : Laszlo Umbreit
Coordination : UNEARTH and Kaja Farszky (Ensemble 21)
Mixed & mastered for ©UNEARTH by Christophe Guiraud
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{dedicated to and in memoriam 𝐒𝐞́𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐧 𝐅𝐚𝐮𝐯𝐚𝐫𝐪𝐮𝐞}
• Sébastien passed away fourteen years ago, his beautiful spirit remains •
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* avec l’aide et le soutien de la Fédération Wallonie Bruxelles
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28 сен 2024
