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Patricia BOSSHARD
“Sillons – Reflets”
Two Patricia Bosshard's compositions performed by ONCEIM and string ensemble CoÔ
Recorded on June 2018 at Saint-Merry church (Paris)
To interpret her two compositions, Sillons and Reflets, Patricia Bosshard could not have hoped for better than the ONCEIM and the CoÔ ensemble, two groups of which she is also a member as a violinist.
These two ensembles bring together instrumentalists of a very high level, from very diverse musical backgrounds: improvised music, jazz, free jazz, classical and contemporary music, experimental music. The collaboration between the musicians and the composer is organized around playing modes that favor minimalist and innovative forms. The scores allow the musicians to experiment with the proposed material, and to appropriate the form, while highlighting the sound potential of the collective.
"I composed Sillon, a repetitive, bewitching piece, which, in its form, evolves from the individual to the large orchestra, passing by groups and sub-groups gathered by affinities of material, timbre, sound. The composition Reflets is based on harmonics. I redistributed these harmonics within the ensemble, played at different octaves, as notes, as harmonics or as ponticello (bow near the bridge), thus generating new harmonics." Patricia Bosshard
Born in Switzerland, Patricia Bosshard is a violinist and composer who studied classical music in Montreal, composition and electroacoustics in Geneva, and jazz in Lausanne. She has developed her own language of experimental and improvised music, which she uses in numerous collaborations with musicians, directors and choreographers.
Founded in 2011 at the instigation of pianist Frédéric Blondy, ONCEIM is an orchestra of 34 musicians. ONCEIM is dedicated to contemporary creation. Well known for his interpretations of the most recent works of Éliane Radigue, ONCEIM also played compositions by Stephen O'Malley, Martin Tétreault, Carsten Nicolai, John Tilbury, Peter Ablinger, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Frédéric Blondy, Sébastien Beliah, Bertrand Denzler, Pierre-Antoine Badaroux, Jean-Sébastien Mariage, Jérome Noetinger, Arnaud Rivière. ONCEIM has been in residency since 2011 at the Saint Merry Church (Paris). ONCEIM has played in Europe at the Venice Biennale, at several festivals (Krakow, Utrecht, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Geneva), as well as at festivals in France such as Météo, Densités, Extension, Macval, and the Fondation Cartier.
Created by Félicie Bazelaire, CoÔ is a string ensemble bringing together string players of ONCEIM. CoÔ aims to build new directions in instrumental research, and create a new repertoire based on specific techniques for bowed strings. In 2019, Potlatch has already released a recording of CoÔ: Arc (compositions by Bertrand Denzler).
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Patricia BOSSHARD
“Temps suspendu”
“In 2011, the Association Eustache gave me carte blanche to compose a piece on the occasion of Le Grand Eustache’s annual concert in Lausanne, Switzerland.
I composed a work for my favourite sonorities, dear to my universe: the infinite register of strings. Starting with a quartet formation, I added the double bass for
its palette of low sounds, and percussion for its resonances.
The compositional work was put together as rehearsals progressed, with experimentations and improvisations guiding the writing of the score. This quintet explores the full richness of the strings, from the most extreme sounds to the most unknown. It is a bruitist piece, which offers us great refinement and considerable inventiveness.
Disconcerting, dreamlike moments… suspended moments.”
Annik Rody, violin. Patricia Bosshard, violin, composition. Marie Schwab, alto. Sara Oswald, cello. Jocelyne Rudasigwa, doublebass. Luc Müller, percussion.
“Patricia had to stand on tiptoes to reach the gilt handle that only yielded with difficulty under her weight. With both hands, she pushed open the rosewood door and long remained motionless on the threshold. Lining the four walls of the room were maple shelves on which stood hundreds of unknown objects.
After having climbed a pair of steps in ebony, Patricia delicately picked up an object and set it on the long spruce table that occupied the middle of the room.
She made it spin delicately on the table, looking at it from all different angles until
a particular alignment of its elements made a new object suddenly appear
out of the object. Her eyes slowly screwed up, and a smile played in her pupils.
After a few minutes, she went to look for another object and placed it next to the first. This was a fine rectangular plate in metal, flexible, cold and shiny.
A third object, a small, silky ball of black horse hair, soon joined the others.
She had fun putting them together, exploring all possible combinations,
making worlds suddenly appear.
By thus exploring new arrangements of materials, forms, colours, the time passed so quickly that the light was already fading. She pushed the heavy door, resisting the temptation to turn around and without knowing that she was feeling nostalgia for the first time, when she noticed, all about her, that the landscape had changed.” Antonio Albanese
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