Grand Soir Numérique - New horizons for creation

Back in 1924, Edgard Varèse explored the relationship between science and music in his cult and still modern Intégrales. The Intégrales were conceived for spatial projection," writes the composer. I built them for certain acoustic means that did not yet exist, but which I knew could be realized and would be used sooner or later." Today, to say that technology, in all its forms, irrigates musical creation would be an understatement. The program for this new Grand Soir, presented as part of the Nemo Biennale Internationale des Arts Numériques, bears witness to this once again this year. With Re-Solarization, Japanese composer and video artist Tatsuru Arai attempts to make musical expression perceptible via other senses, principally vision. In LAVA, by French duo Tryphème and Ulysse Lefort, live music modulates projected images. Pierre Jodlowski is no stranger to the use of electronics and multimedia in his creations, as demonstrated by Time & Money, a work for percussion, electronics and video premiered in 2003 at the Donaueschingen Festival. As for Yang Song, she tirelessly reinvents her music through technology, this time creating a new instrumental "vocality" through computer hybridization.