ENS Paris-Saclay innovates with composition and sound art workshops
Two distinguished partners, the Philharmonie de Paris and Muse en Circuit, a national centre for composition and sound art, have joined forces with ENS Paris-Saclay so that students can begin to explore various aspects and repertoires of contemporary music and sound composition.
Sound Creation Devices and Improvisation, workshop run with Muse en Circuit, national centre for composition and sound art
The improvisation workshop focuses on experimental sound creation using a simple electronic music system that the participants help put together. Improvising as a group, participants will work towards creating a piece for a public performance.
Trainer Arnaud Rivière is a self-taught musician whose practice centres on free improvisation with noise music influences. He mainly uses a basic electroacoustic system built from simple components (customized mixing board, microphones, sensors, etc.). Rivière is also the organizer and programmer of Sonic Protest, a festival dedicated to “extreme” music with roots in jazz, industrial, punk or electronic music.
The workshop will culminate in a concert at ENS Paris-Saclay.
Electronic Music—New Tools, workshop run with the Philharmonie de Paris
This workshop is structured around the concert “Grand soir numérique” to be held on 26 January at the Philharmonie de Paris.
The concert brings together diverse artists, composers and audiovisual performers, illustrating the meeting point between contemporary art music and electronic music.
The workshop is organized as follows:
- before the concert, a session with composer Wilfried Wendling, who will present the artists and works,
- a creative studio session,
- the concert,
- a second creative studio session.
The studio sessions will be supervised by composers and technicians from the Philharmonie de Paris.