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Ways music

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This weekend, a small tower for the new Pompidou Metz, but also for a concert experience very promising: the diffusion of the composition Gaku-no-Michi ( Ways music ) by John -Claude Eloy, assisted by Eric Cordier. This "movie without images for electronic and concrete sounds" will be distributed in its entirety, 4 hours in the dark, lying to an audience with sound preparation for a half hour and sounds an extension until the room is empty. I am very happy to go immerse myself in this sonic material because, last year, the reissue of Gaku-no-Michi (Off by Territories), as a boxed set of 4 discs, m has really captivated.
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French composer Jean-Claude Eloy has been taught by Olivier Messiaen, Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen ... His works have been performed or broadcast worldwide. Gaku-no-Michi was produced (see photos of Mae Rieko above) to Tokyo in 1977-78 in the electronic music studio of Radio NHK (Nippon Hoso Kyokai). This composition is made particularly compelling from sounds picked up in Japan: street sounds from Tokyo, Hiroshima Annual Memorial ... The aim of the composer is of course no documentary, these sounds are manipulated, stretched, mounted to construct a mural with varied textures and colors. With this length and the Far Eastern influence, no doubt that the work induces in the viewer a particular relationship to time. Immersion contemplation (...), we are delighted to live it. The concert is organized by the association Fragment , whose programming is very exciting.

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Here you will find various news articles related to the first concert and disc edition Gaku-no-Michi , including an interview with Jean-Claude Eloy by filmmaker Chris Marker in published interviews World music in December 1979.

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