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Michel CHION
“Musiques concrètes 1988-91”
Brocoli continues to unearth Michel Chion’s unreleased gems, after the concrete melodrama Tu and the collection of early works Musiques Concrètes 1970-71. This time it focuses on the period from 1988 to 1991, starting with 10 études de musique concrète, a series of obsessive pieces, sounding in turns dry and liquid. While Variations smashes a waltz theme to pieces, Crayonnés Ferroviaires is a work and manifesto, an ode to the tape recorder and to the possibilities offered by the microphone and magnetic tape.
A bright, lively and bold experimental music.
Michel Chion, born 1947, is a writer, historian, independent researcher and teacher, director and composer. He was a member of the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM) between 1971 and 1976 and has been composing a diverse and rich set of works since 1970: melodramas, suites of short pieces, technical and formal studies, and religious music. Michel Chion is recognized worldwide as one of the most influential composers of musique concrète.
A bright, lively and bold experimental music.
Michel Chion, born 1947, is a writer, historian, independent researcher and teacher, director and composer. He was a member of the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM) between 1971 and 1976 and has been composing a diverse and rich set of works since 1970: melodramas, suites of short pieces, technical and formal studies, and religious music. Michel Chion is recognized worldwide as one of the most influential composers of musique concrète.
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Michel CHION
“Musiques concrètes 1970-71”
Brocoli is pleased to announce the release of seven early works by Michel Chion, the celebrated musique concrète composer. Composed before he joined the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM) in 1971 his characteristic style and sounds are already present. The abrasive electronics and sanctity in Blanche prefigure 1973’s Requiem; Sonatine and Train de pianos are based on prepared piano improvisations; Habanera and L’Oiseau en Cage evoke La Ronde, and Le Ciel Tremble is the composer’s first melodrama. Essential listening for lovers of the composer and genre, and for anyone interested in the history of electronic and experimental music.
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Michel CHION
“La Tentation de saint Antoine”
Another master piece from Michel Chion reissued by Nuun in this serie directed by Lionel Marchetti. “Concrète series by Lionel Marchetti. A concrete melodrama consisting of a prologue and nine tableaux adapted from Flaubert. With Pierre Schaeffer (as St Anthony), Michèle Bokanowski Ennoïa, the Narrator), Art Leroi-Bibbs (the Preacher), Korinna Rahls-Frisius (the Queen of Sheba), Michel Chion (the Announcer). Jointly commissioned by the French Ministry of Culture, the INA.GRM and radio France-Culture. Produced at the INA.GRM studios between 1981 and 1984.”
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Michel CHION
“La vie en prose”
A concrete symphony composed between 2006 and 2011. Four parts : “Le chant des heures”, “Le souffle court”, “Dans la chambre”, “Salut au jour”.
“Thanks to musique concrète ways and means, La vie en prose fulfils my childhood dream of composing a Symphony of Energy in four movements of sharp contrasts. The title of the work was inspired by Flaubert, in a sentence explaining how as the era of rhyming poetry ended the age of prose began. There’s no narrative in this one hour and a half long Symphony, but a cast of characters, some vocal instrumental theme and sounds that circulate, disappear, pop up, stretch, decline and lose themselves in time." MC.
Michel Chion is a French composer, director, writer and theoretician. La vie en prose is his first musical work composed in the 2000s. Thanks to musique concrète ways and means, it fulfills his childhood dream of composing a Symphony of Energy in four movements of sharp contrasts. There’s no narrative in this one hour and a half long Symphony, but a cast of characters, some vocal, instrumental themes and sounds that circulate, disappear, pop up, stretch, decline and lose themselves in time. This work features analog and digital sounds that have been carefully collected for 40 years.
“Thanks to musique concrète ways and means, La vie en prose fulfils my childhood dream of composing a Symphony of Energy in four movements of sharp contrasts. The title of the work was inspired by Flaubert, in a sentence explaining how as the era of rhyming poetry ended the age of prose began. There’s no narrative in this one hour and a half long Symphony, but a cast of characters, some vocal instrumental theme and sounds that circulate, disappear, pop up, stretch, decline and lose themselves in time." MC.
Michel Chion is a French composer, director, writer and theoretician. La vie en prose is his first musical work composed in the 2000s. Thanks to musique concrète ways and means, it fulfills his childhood dream of composing a Symphony of Energy in four movements of sharp contrasts. There’s no narrative in this one hour and a half long Symphony, but a cast of characters, some vocal, instrumental themes and sounds that circulate, disappear, pop up, stretch, decline and lose themselves in time. This work features analog and digital sounds that have been carefully collected for 40 years.
20,00€