CMMR 2019 Artistic Program Overview

Ongoing artistic events

October 15th, 16th and 17th between 14h and 18h at "La Friche" (GMEM) :

• Miniature Opera Project #2: "The Messengers" a CosmOpera
  Marco Buongiorno Nardelli (music and scenography)
  Claude Vallée (Cosmophone)



The CosmOpera "The Messengers" is based on the Cosmophone and the FutureCoast project. FutureCoast has collected on the web hypothetical messages from the future associated to the Climate change, and has embodied them into "chronofact" objects. The Cosmophone is an immersive device which detects ambiant cosmic rays and instantaneously materializes their trajectories through sound. The CosmOpera restitutes the chosen chronofacts as musical sequences steered by cosmic rays, the Messengers.

October 14th to 19th (on demand) at Campus Joseph Aiguier:

• Massilia, Carnet de bord - Binaural version for headphones and sound walk
  Cécile Le Prado
  Sound space setup: Charles Bascou



Massilia, Carnet de bord is part of the Escales project, sound creations specially designed for the fitting rooms of the Galeries Lafayettes Marseille Prado department store and commissioned by GMEM.
“The stopover in Marseille began on December 15, 2018. I started recording anything around the place where I live, at the end of the wharf. I enlarged my concentric circles from St Laurent to pass in front of the pilot boat, around Fort St Jean to the Major. This part of the port is the boundary between cruise ships, shuttles to Corsica or Algeria and then the smaller trips to Frioul, Estaque or Pointe Rouge. On December 26th, departure of the J4 to follow Terminal 1, cross the Joliette market and return to the Panier area. The sound landscape gradually slips from an open space to an intimate area where voices bounce off the walls. In the following days, I leave my systematic paths to look for specific sounds and ambiences. I extend my map towards the end of the harbor and then to the south. Of all these sound recordings, I keep in mind, when I listen to them again, the impressions of the place. Some sounds evoke movement, space, others bring elements of dramaturgy. Finally, some fragments extracted from their context reveal more abstract, more musical particularities. I propose to the listener, during the conference, a binaural version of the musical composition "[Cécile Le Prado]

Monday, October 14^th

French Hand programme

La Friche, Belle de Mai, Grand Plateau:
'Celebration of the PRISM Lab and Tribute to Jean-Claude Risset'

• 17:30 - 18:00 Presentation of the PRISM lab and tribute to J.C. Risset
  Richard Kronland-Martinet, Vincent Tiffon
• 18:00 - 18:45 Keynote : John M Chowning
• 19:00 - 19:30 Short Concert


• Turenas (1972)
  John M Chowning
• 8 esquisses in duet for a pianist (1989), for piano Disklavier and computer.
  Jean-Claude Risset
  Hélène Pereira, piano


• 19:30 - 21:00 Buffet (hosted by the PRISM Lab)
• 21:00 - 22h30 Concert: Tribute to J.C. Risset


• Mutation 1 (1969)
• Voilement (1987), saxophone and electronics
  Joël Versavaud, saxophone
  Charles Bascou, electronics
• Luraï (1992), celtic harp and electronics
  Alice Belugou, celtic harp
  Charles Bascou, electronics
• Saxatile (1992), saxophone and electronics
  Yui Sakagoshi, saxophone
  Charles Bascou, electronics
• Attracteurs étranges - excerpt of 2 mvt + 5th mvt (1988), clarinet and electronics
  Ivan Solano, clarinet
  Charles Bascou, electronics
• Naka (1971), soprano, flute, clarinet, piano, percussion
  Raphaële Kennedy, soprano
  Shao-wei Chou, flûte
  Ivan Solano, clarinet
  Hélène Pereira, piano
  Damien Louis, percussion

Tuesday, October 15^th

Campus Joseph Aiguier:

• 14:00 - 14:30 Vidéomusique


• Constellations
  Julian Scordato
• Un été
  Claude Moreau & Jean-Pierre Moreau

La Friche, Belle de Mai, GMEM:

• 19:00 - 20:00 Cosmophone Concert

The Cosmophone is an immersive device which detects ambiant cosmic rays and instantaneously materializes their trajectories through sound.

During the concert, 4 works for Cosmophone are proposed by

• Jean-Marc Montera : Intracables No 1
• Lucie Prod'Homme : Plus loin que l’infini
• Francis Dhomont : Metamuons
• Marco Buongiorno Nardelli: The Messengers, a CosmOpera (avant-premiere, 2019)
• Music and video by Marco Buongiorno Nardelli
• Libretto by Ken Eklund and Marco Buongiorno Nardelli after the FutureCoast Project
• Cosmophone by Claude Vallée
• Technical realization by Gaëtan Parseihian

• 20:00 - 21:00 Installation, Foyer
• Sensorium
  Rafal Zapala

• 21:00 - 22:30 'Augmented, Virtual and Mixed Reality', Le Module

Foreword: “Augmented, virtual and mixed reality: whatever the categories, the body in motion remains the obligatory passage of recognition. The body plays, it learns. The dance at the origin would be that: the body that plays in its simplest expression.” [Norbert Corsino]

• Delearn
  Atau Tanaka
• Trois Machins de la Grâce Aimante
  Rob Hamilton
• Self Patterns
  n + n Corsino

Wednesday, October 16^th

La Friche, Belle de Mai, Grand Plateau, 21h:
'Research Project - Contemporary Music'

• At and across, Genesis software and bells sheep (electroacoustics)
  Juraj Kojs
• Take your time… hurry up!, flute and electronics
  Shao-Wei Chou, flûte
  Vincze Davor Branimir
• ægo
  Scurto Hugo, Axel Chemla, Romeu-Santos
• Partitions distribuées en réseau, web score with Marseille Labo Band (Jean Marc Montera) and Mit Allen Augen.
  Jonathan Bell

Thursday, October 17^th

La Friche, Belle de Mai, Grand Plateau:
'Interactive Music'

• 19:00 - 20:30 Cinema/Game-Concert, original creation for CMMR 2019.
  Christophe Héral


Christophe Héral is a French composer and sound designer for cinema, television and video games. Renowned for his numerous compositions, he has, among others, received the Best original music award at the Festival du cinéma d’animation français de Bruz in 2011 for La douce. The short film La queue de la souris, for which he composed the music, is nominated for a César in 2012 and after working on Jean François Laguionie’s feature film L'Île de Black Mór, he receives the Jury’s special mention at the Festival d’Annecy (2010) for Kérity, la maison des contes. In parallel, he collaborates with Michel Ancel on the music of video games including Beyond Good and Evil, which won many prizes, Rayman Origins, Tintin et le secret de la Licorne, and Rayman Legends (Ubisoft) for which he won the Best original music for a video game award at the Game Paris Awards (2013). He is currently working on two AAA games Beyond Good and Evil 2 (Ubisoft) and Wild (Sony), Laguionie’s next feature Le voyage du prince and four short films. Apart from all these awards, Christophe Héral is curious and passioned by all cultures and types of music, and he enjoys collecting musical instruments.



The music for the image class of the Cinema and Audiovisual Master Programme (Aix-Marseille University), directed by Christophe Héral (UBISOFT) with Antoine Gonot and Konstantinos Alevizos (AMU) will perform their compositions facing the a projected animated film (Péripheria, directed by David Coquard-Dassault) and different musical video games with various levels of difficulty (Rhythm Game, Musical Platformer, etc.)


• 20:30 - 22:30 Gala Dinner at "Les Grandes Tables"

Friday, October 18^th

Campus Joseph Aiguier:

• 'Ubiquitous Music' workshop


• I mballakkeri for MIDI-operated piano and electronics.
  Marcello Messina
• Ntrallazzu 6 for voice, electronics and live score.
  Marcello Messina