Stefan Maier, Ragnhild May, Stephen O’Malley, Hampus Lindwall
septembersept 30
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Tuesday september 30
20h
Stefan Maier, Ragnhild May, Bellows, for hand-made organs, feedback, and electronics (2015–2025), commissioned by the Festival d’Automne à Paris. World premiere of the new version.
Stefan Maier electronics, feedback, organ
Ragnhild May hand-made organs, organ
Ensemble Multilatérale
Stephen O’Malley, Hampus Lindwall, High & Low, for electric guitar, amplifiers, and organ (2025), commissioned by the Festival d’Automne à Paris. World premiere.
Stephen O’Malley electric guitar and amplifiers
Hampus Lindwall organ
Shantidas Reidacker lighting
Produced by the Festival d’Automne à Paris
Bellows by Stefan Maier and Ragnhild May: a Festival d’Automne à Paris commission; residency hosted by the Danish Sound Art Lab
High & Low by Stephen O’Malley and Hampus Lindwall: a Festival d’Automne à Paris commission
With the support of
The two pieces Bellows and High & Low are the combined effort of four musicians. Specially made for the Saint-Eustache church, this in situ experience of sound treats our ears to resonances of a unique kind. Waves of sound fill the playing space and acquire shapes of their own, transforming the nave, chapels and vaults into instruments, on a grand scale.
With the concert-installation Bellows, Stefan Maier and Ragnhild May follow in the footsteps not only of Guillaume Dufay, and his motet composed in accordance with the proportions of the Florence cathedral, but also those of Yves Klein and his air architecture, as well as the ephemeral sound spaces of the American composer Maryanne Amacher. On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of their work, they "play" the stones and voids of Saint-Eustache and give them shape them via the sculptural effect of May's instruments, Maier's sound electronics, an ensemble and an organ.
Hampus Lindwall and Stephen O'Malley, founder member and guitarist of the band Sunn O))), set up interplay of a radical kind between an amplified electric guitar and the grand organ of the Saint-Eustache church. High & Low is inspired by the English translation of the title of the film noir that Akira Kurosawa directed in 1963, based on Ed McBain’s novel King's Ransom: An 87th Precinct Mystery. By means of the various intonations the duo brings forth, together with its quest for spectral harmonies, the sound acquires a material-like power, aided by the lighting design of Shantidas Reidacker, who recently created the lighting design of the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral.
