Composition
Michèle Bokanowski
season
2024-2025
length
40 minutes
place of creation
festival Musica, Strasbourg
TitLe
ELECTRO ACOUSTIC CREATION
inspired by the Big Band
Description
Michèle Bokanowskiʼs work is characterized by the use of concrete sounds and obsessive mechanisms, the consideration of space, the conscious highlighting of media used, the scripting of editing cuts and the primacy given to expressiveness. Most of her pieces are produced in her own studio through the direct creation and manipulation of sounds.
For this first piece for orchestra, Michèle Bokanowski has been inspired by the Big Bang, the origin of our universe, the primitive impulse that gives rise to an infinite resonance in which the piece will develop as a work created over the long-term. First, Michèle Bokanowski will meet the musicians separately, by family of instrument, to discover possible sounds, transformations and developments. The raw material will be recorded during these sessions and notation principles will be established. The sounds will then be manipulated and assembled according to the composer's own electro acoustic working methods and the structure of the piece will be put into place. During the final stage, the musicians will strive to recreate and orchestrate any new tones proposed by the composer and optimize the writing to establish the final score. Finally, it will be possible for the rehearsal work to begin with the entire orchestra to give body and life to this new work.
Onceim wishes to create a favourable context through this protocol for the deployment of the composerʼs ideas, while remaining as close to her usual working methods as possible. The orchestra and the musicians will aim to adapt and transform themselves into a veritable studio-laboratory for the composer and provide all the tools necessary for the transduction of her music onto their instruments.