Since end 2009, Linea is working in cooperation with Scènes 2 and music schools of the Senones region (eastern France) on a project devoted to John Cage. During several workshops, directed by our pianist Reto Staub, students could work on different Cage works.
Conclusion tomorrow by a concert of the students followed by a programme performed by Linea. Details in the agenda
Linea continues to introduce the audience to the works of great composers who marked the new music landscape. Beside Eötvös ans Stockhausen, both present during this year, we are happy to open our programmes to a new witness of the new music diversity : John Cage.
The american composer is well known for his way of challenging the limits of art and music, crossing over the disciplines (art, dance, litterature, spirituality...) He opened a lot of new directions, using silence, natural elements, tools, in the process of creation and enlarged his influence to rock and jazz music, philosophy, history of art.
Several musical rendez vous invite to (re)discover Cage's world and creativity :
Since end 2009, we are engaged in a cooperation with Scenes 2, a cultural promoter from the neighbouring Vosges district : in that frame, we organise several workshops with students from several music schools of the area in which they work and rehearse John Cage pieces. A concert, including performances by the students and completed by a Linea Cage show, gonna concluse this cooperation.
Closer in time, Linea plays the "sonates and interludes for prepared piano" at the Würth Museum in Erstein (Alsace) on sunday 21st march 2010. Other projects devoted to John Cage are on the way... Follow it on this website.
Champs libres comes back : before party on 2nd february 2010
vendredi, 22 janvier 2010
Our festival "Champs Libres " comes back in june 2010 with a special focus on Korea, a country from which we follow the musical activity for a long time already.
From 5th to 19th june 2010, Champs Libres offers a complete immersion in Korean culture : concerts, films, food, video, traditionnal artworks, DJ’s… The festival explores Korea to 360°!
Coming up at the festival, the great and impressive Kim Duk Soo, living master of the Samulnori, traditionnal drum performances you can usually see on villages celebrations. The wonderful art of Pansori, considered as the korean opera, is in the programme, which is also opened to pop and electronic with Sorea (our photo), a charming female pop group playing pop/rock/rap music with traditionnal korean instruments (!), and both DJane Flamenco and DJ Rainjacket, some of the leading Seoul clubbing actors.
Concerning new music : Linea gonna perform several korean works from today, by Sungji Hong, Younghi Pagh Paan, and many other and a tribute to korean pionneer Isang Yun is programmed. In that frame, the festival will present 2 world premieres and 6 french premieres. Last but not least, famous korean ensemble TIMF is the guest of the festival. A common concert Linea/TIMF is one of the highlights of the event.
So, Champs Libres gonna be the "place to be" for those who wants to know more about Korea.
Actually, thanks to TIMF artistic director Snkgn Kim (pronounce :« Sungun Kim »), currently in Europe, we have the pleasure to organise a Festival Before Party in Strasbourg, on tuesday 2nd february 2010, at the Friche Laiterie. After a presentation of the festival, you could discover korean traditional music with the Korean Music Project and new music by Isang Yun, performed by Linea.
Complete programme of this evening in the agenda .
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Beau début pour Stockhausen raconté aux enfants, avec une première à Gonesse, le 30 novembre dernier, qui a bien tenu ses promesses.
Une ribambelle d'enfants venus des écoles primaires environnantes, accompagnés de leur professeurs, ont pu plonger dans l'univers magique du maître. Il y avait quelque chose de fort touchant, à voir ces "jeunes pousses" cosmopolites de la France d'aujourd'hui débouler dans la bonne humeur dans la salle, pour découvrir de la musique contemporaine. Surtout qu'avec le jeune public, on est loin des habitudes policées qui sont supposées seoir au genre. Dès le début de l'action, la salle est prise d'une sorte d'agitation hypnotique : les "Wouahhh" succèdent aux "regarde !", On chuchote, on se montre des détails, on réagit, on écoute, et on rit surtout, car "Stockhausen raconté aux enfants" n'est pas dépourvu d'humour.
De superbes éclairages, de belles couleurs, des trouvailles de mise scène séduisantes installent le spectateur dans une ambiance magnétique et décalée qui fait mouche. L'intrigue, une porte d'entrée vers le compositeur plus qu'un fil conducteur strict, finit elle-même par s'évanouir pour laisser libre cours à la musique et au voyage qu'elle procure.Des paysages rencontrés lors de ce voyage sonore, il fut précisément question dans le très raffraichissant débat qui suivit le spectacle. L'un des jeunes spectateurs confia en effet qu'il "[vit] des paysages dans [sa] tête" en écoutant les pièces de Stockhausen, et nombre de ses camarades partagèrent de la même façon leurs émotions. Ils purent poser leurs questions, donner leur avis, émettre des critiques, dans un échange vivant et attachant, parfois drôle ("Monsieur, pourquoi tu t'habilles en ours ?"). un vrai régal !
Mais le plus grand plaisir, la plus belle récompense, pour Linea et Flash Marionettes (qui coréalise le spectacle), ce fut cette absence de réticence et la sensibilité de la majorité de nos jeunes spectateurs (de nombreux "ouiiiiiiii" fusèrent lorsqu'on leur demanda si la musique leur avait plu), face à une musique jugée difficile par certains de leurs aînés. Ces derniers eurent droit à leur séance le lendemain, et là aussi la magie opéra. Un pari réussi que cette rencontre entre musique contemporaine et jeune public, qui tournera - nous l'espérons, et nous y travaillons - abondamment en 2010 et 2011. un grand merci à Keiko Murakami, Antoine Pecqueur, Ismaïl Safwan, l'équipe de Flash Marionettes, Jean-Philippe Wurtz, Mathieu Sautel, pour leurs efforts et leur motivation dans le long et exigeant processus de création de ce spectacle.
"New music doesn't interest the audience, it's boring and complicated"...How many time did we ear that ? Actually, that was not the opinion of the numerous spectators who came in both concerts we gave in two small town of our homeregion Alsace, during the last week-end of november : around hundred persons, in both cases, ignored cold wintertime to discover our new programme focused on the oboe/harp duet.
This programme has indeed a good way to open new music to an audience who is unused to it, by mixing current works with music from the Renaissance or Barocco period. Point is to connect the different streams rather than dividing them...Our both soloists, - Heidi caillet at the oboe, Geneviève Létang at the harp - had also the clever idea to offer a few litterature intermezzos, with a few texts from french writers, to illustrate music with words and vice-versa.
A good time out, and a good success, which proves that new music can touch a wide audience. It depends on the content and the "packaging", and on the motivation of the promoters who wants to defend this repertoire. Though they are not so numerous, Linea can count on a good network in our region, like the library and the small cultural center where we played this programme, which will be surely presented in other places.
Budapest, new CD and the last highlights of the year
mardi, 03 novembre 2009
We are back from Budapest where we performed at the Autumn Festival
a monographic programme devoted to Peter Eötvös. In the same time, we
recorded the upcoming new Linea's CD, in the Budapest Music Center
Recordings studio. This CD gonna be released next year, probably at the
end of the first semester. We'll keep you informed...
Peter Eötvös attended to all
concert rehearsals as well as to the studio sessions. It was a big
pleasure and privilege to work with him : his advises, recommandations,
patience and kindness was the best encouragement in this long time
project.
The concert, in the great venue of the alternative
cultural center Trafo, was successfull. Actually, as it celebrated the
national cultural personality that Peter Eötvös is, the Linea's concert
was an event and a lot of persons came to it. Several concert promoters
or festival directors from Hungary and central Europe attended to the
show and we can already say that we gonna come back in the region in
the future...
We're now back to France.
Coming up soon : two concerts in our home region Alsace at the end of
the month, featuring how the oboe/harp combination evolved through time
and space. And right after those both concerts in Cernay and
Ingersheim, we go to the northern suburb of Paris, in Gonesse, to
"launch" officially our programme "Stockhausen for kids" in frame of
our Residence in Royaumont. Directed by Ismaïl Safwan, from the famous
french "Flash Marionnettes" theatrical company, "Stockhausen for kids"
is our first programme of contemporary music for children and
youngsters. A great challenge for us!
