25 May 2019

GRAND SOIR FREE STYLE - ENSEMBLE INTERCONTEMPORAIN - ILAN VOLKOV - LEWIS, MITCHELL, SOREY, BOROWSKI



Here we have a donation by another anonymous with some compositions by Geroge Lewis, Roscoe Mitchell, Tyshawn Sorey and the German composer Johannes Borowski.


Vendredi 18 janvier 2019 — 20h30
Salle des concerts - Cité de la Musique, Paris

PROGRAMME

George E. Lewis
Track 1 - Emergent, pour flûte et dispositif électronique (création française) 13:22
Track 2 - The Will to Adorn, (création française) 17:45

ENTRACTE

Tyshawn Sorey
Track 3 - Sentimental Shards, (création française) 10:41

Roscoe Mitchell
Track 4 - Useful News (commande de l'Ensemble intercontemporain, création) 21:06

ENTRACTE

Johannes Boris Borowski
Track 5 – Mappe (création de la nouvelle version) 24:52

Emmanuelle Ophèle, flute
Damon Holzborn, electronics (software programming)
Ilan Volkov, conductor

6 comments:

Ernst Grgo Nebhuth said...

1fichier

Colin Green said...

Thanks, Ernst. Lewis spent a year at IRCAM in Paris and I suspect his piece is something he worked on there. Possibly Sorey too.

Emmanuelle Ophèle is a terrific flautist. She’s plays the principal “midi” flute in this performance of Boulez’ “...explosante-fixe...”:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0APfmT-mQs

Colin Green said...

Actually, now I've downloaded it, the PDF file says Lewis' piece was written in 2014 or so, but his incorporation of electronics does date back to his time in IRCAM, which specialises in such things.

Ernst Grgo Nebhuth said...

George Lewis studied at the IRCAM in the 1980s. Later he also was teaching there.
On youtube one can see / hear an excerpt of a composition by Lewis with Léandre, Ewart and Lacy plus software / pc (maybe an early version of Lewis's Voyager).
A friend of mine was at the concert by pure chance.
The year is 1984.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4bS-0tsVEg

Last year I saw the complete concert somewhere at the www - but I forgot where the video was hosted.

BT said...

Thank-you very much

Richard said...

Thanks. George Lewis was using electronics and computers back in the very early 1980s according to a recent talk by Ernest Dawkins. ED said that George had one of the first desktop PCs he (Dawkins) had ever seen and was using it on stage.