Composition
Patricia Bosshard
CrEation
26.06.2018
PLACE
Les Rendez-vous contemporains, Paris (FR)
LENGTH
30 minutes approx.
staff
27 to 33 musicians
titLE
SILLONS
*member of Onceim
Description
“Composing for a large orchestra is a challenge. Composing for Onceim is an honour. Composing for this orchestra, which brings together excellent musicians, both those working from a score and improvisers, is something that opens up the field of sonic possibilities. Imagining, hearing, seeing... all these musicians, all these sounds, everything that everyone produces and can produce on their instrument... For this piece I'm going to meet each musician and seek out what each of them has in their heart by asking them to play me one of their favourite sessions in the form of a short "cell". I will ask them, “Play me one of the sounds that you like the most, that you can repeat, that lasts between 1 and 10 seconds” and discuss and detail with them the sound parameters that each of them most likes (pitch, grain, attack, fluting, noise, volume etc.). After collecting this material, I will define each sound, sculpt, transform, knead it with the idea of retaining its elan and its main characteristic while changing parameters of the spectrum, just as you would be able to do in electronic music (changes in frequency, intensity and temporality). Using these various “cells” and their variations, I will compose a repetitive piece which, in its form, will go from being played by individuals to being played by the whole orchestra, with an intermediary stage of groups and sub-groups of the orchestra with affinities in terms of material, timbre, sound or volume, areas where they meet, overlap, diverge, the essence of each brought together, juxtaposed, annihilated or shared within a large whole. Although working within a major constraint (repetition of the same cell), there are an infinite number of tiny variations.”
Patricia Bosshard
concerts
19.10.2020 LA MARBRERIE
18.04.2021 FESTIVAL ARCHIPEL (SUISSE)
23.03.2022 FHILHARMONIE DE BERLIN, MAERZMUZIK (ALLEMAGNE)
VIDEO
https://mediathek.berlinerfestspiele.de/en/bfs-mediathek/maerzmusik/2022/occam-ocean
album
SPLIT ALBUM AVEC COÔ (LABEL POTLACH – 2021)