One month ago "In the Shadow of Alexander. He learned from the Master..." by Makis Aperghis was published
One month ago “In the Shadow of Alexander. He learned from the Master…” by Makis Aperghis was published
Good day and good Sunday everyone, I’m Elena and thanks to be here on Alessandro III di Macedonia- Alexander the Great and Hellenism! Today I’d like to point out the release dating back to a month ago of a novel written by an academic:
In the Shadow of Alexander. He learned from the Master…
(In the Shadow of Alexander #1)
by Makis Aperghis
Publisher: Publishing Push
Out on: October 30,…
02.08.24 Broken Frames Syndicate from Frankfurt play Within The Hadal & Epi by Anahita Abbasi at Roulette Intermedium NYC.
"Anahita Abbasi (world citizen-1985) was born and raised in Iran. In 2005 she moved to Austria and pursued her undergrad at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, where she studied music theory with Clemens Gadenstätter and Christian Utz & composition with Beat Furrer and Pierluigi Billone; while working closely with Georges Aperghis, Franck Bedrossian, and Philippe Leroux. In 2014 she moved to the US to pursue her Ph.D. degree in Composition with Rand Steiger at UC San Diego.
Currently, Abbasi is residing in New York and in Paris, where she has been awarded a three-year-long residency with Fondation Singer Polignac and Ensemble Le Balcon (Paris, France). Her upcoming projects are commissions from ensemble “der gelbe Klang”, Kommas and New Babylon, Podium Esslingen, and Ensemble Modern for Darmstadt 2023."
Xenakis révolution. Le bâtisseur du son, (documentary/biography, 2022, 56', in French w/ French, Italian, English, Spanish, and Polish sub, and German dubbed), Directed by Stéphane Ghez, Arte / Cinétévé, 2022. Feat. Mâkhi Xenakis, Pascal Dusapin, George Aperghis, Jean-Michel Jarre, Trio Xenakis/Collectif Xenakis [Adélaïde Ferrière, Emmanuel Jacquet, Rodolphe Théry, and Jean-Baptiste Bonnard, Othman Louati, Emmanuel Curt]
Roman Philharmonic, two centuries of life in the celebratory concert
Roman Philharmonic, two centuries of life in the celebratory concert
(ANSA) – ROME, DEC 05 – The early nineteenth century with Rossini, The Short Century with Stravinskij, the contemporaneity with the first performance of the composition specially commissioned to Georges Aperghis and, finally, the homage to timeless Mozart with the Jupiter symphony . The Roman Philharmonic celebrated its 200th anniversary yesterday with applause with a great concert at the Olympic…
PIERRE BASTIEN & MÉCANIUM, Musiques machinales (1993)
Parent des sculptures sonores et des machines musicales de Joe Jones et Frédéric Le Junter, l’orchestre mécanique de Pierre Bastien (son Mécanium comme il l’appelle) est peuplé d’automates générant des cycles mélodiques embryonnaires et des polyrythmies répétitives plus ou moins bancales, les unes jouées et les autres frappées sur des instruments souvent issus de traditions millénaires propres aux musiques ethniques – des percussions javanaises en bambou, un luth chinois ou un bendir marocain par exemple. Des poulies, des engrenages, des moteurs de pick-up usagés et des structures héritées des Meccano mettent en mouvement de faux doigts, des baguettes ou des archets – leur inventeur, véritable artisan-horloger des sons, préférant définitivement la bonne vieille mécanique aux technologies sophistiquées. De ce travail amorcé avec Nu Creative Methods (un duo qu’il formait avec Bernard Pruvost) nait une musique délicate et hypnotique aux allures de songe éveillé, sur laquelle Pierre Bastien improvise à la trompette, au trombone ou au violon. Profondément marqué par Don Cherry, l’Art Ensemble Of Chicago (Pierre Bastien reprend sur Musiques machinales leur « People In Sorrow ») et Bernard Vitet (notamment en raison des instruments construits par ce dernier pour Georges Aperghis), cet univers singulier possède un coté « oulipien » et pataphysique évident – Pierre Bastien a d’ailleurs participé à une compilation intitulée Ubu et la Merdre. Dans ce qu’il donne à entendre – c’est-a-dire son processus même de gestation, aussi sonore qu’un vieux 78 tours qui gratte – il y a quelque chose des inventions de Jules Verne, du piano-cocktail de Boris Vian dans L’Écume des jours, comme des merveilles décrites par Raymond Roussel dans Locus Solus. Depuis la première ébauche de Mécanium présentée en 1976 au cours d’une nuit de solos organisée par Jac Berrocal au Théâtre Mouffetard à Paris, Pierre Bastien n’a jamais cessé d’offrir à entendre et à voir ses trouvailles faites de bric et de broc, dignes du concours Lépine et a l’origine d’un folklore imaginaire sans équivalent. Le charme naturel et sans afféterie de ces disques, mais aussi des performances dont ils représentent l’écho, milite pour une certaine conscience artisanale de la fabrication du son. Soit une plongée dans les rouages de l’imaginaire et des cheminements hasardeux qu’emprunte l’inspiration.
Édith Scob, the French actor best known for her first starring role in the creepy 1960 Georges Franju horror film Eyes Without a Face, has died aged 81. Her agent confirmed the news to AFP, saying she had died on Wednesday in Paris. No cause of death was disclosed.
Scob’s role in Eyes Without a Face is one of the great breakout performances in French cinema. Playing the daughter of a surgeon who undergoes extensive skin grafts after her face is disfigured, she spends much of the film swathed in bandages or wearing a mask, only her eyes visible. Scob’s ethereal, expressive qualities made a stunning impact and the film has remained a cult favourite.
Modern audiences are more likely to know her for her appearance in Leos Carax’s 2012 film Holy Motors, where she played a limousine driver taking Denis Lavant’s mysterious Oscar to his “appointments”. At the end of the film she dons a mask in homage to her iconic role.
Born Édith Scobeltzine in Paris in 1937 into a family of Russian immigrants, Scob studied at the Sorbonne and embarked on a stage career in the late 1950s. She quickly made headway in cinema, and was cast in a small role in Georges Franju’s Head Against the Wall in 1959, before securing her first leading role in Eyes Without a Face. Scob would go on to make three more features with the director, including the 1963 revenge thriller Judex.
On screen, Scob worked steadily, with roles in films such as Luis Buñuel’s 1969 film The Milky Way (in which she played the Virgin Mary), Jacques Rivette’s 1994 Jeanne la Pucelle (as Jeanne de Béthune). A resurgence in the late 90s saw her cast in the popular French hit Venus Beauty and Raúl Ruiz’s Proust adaptation Time Regained, both released in 1999. Since the turn of the century she has been nominated for César awards for best supporting actress for Olivier Assayas’ family chamber piece Summer Hours in 2008 and Holy Motors in 2012.
Scob maintained a high-profile stage career alongside her film work, with a string of roles in French drama, including Racine, Molière and Anouilh. In 1976 in collaboration with her partner, the composer George Aperghis, she founded the avant garde theatre group Atem (Atelier Théâtre et Musique), designed to involve the disadvantaged in the deprived suburbs of Paris.
Jack Adler-McKean lavora per promuovere la famiglia della tuba attraverso collaborazioni con ensemble di fama internazionale, compositori e istituzioni accademiche.Progetti recenti includono esibizioni con il Klangforum Wien, produzioni di teatro musicale sul palco della Deutsche Oper Berlin, collaborazioni su nuove opere solistiche con Georges Aperghis e Michael Finnissy, première ai BBC Proms e…
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