Cassandra Miller, Florentin Ginot et Katharina Ernst
octoberoct 4
decemberdec 12
© Florentin Ginot et Katharina Ernst ©
© Pete Furniss ©
Metro : La Chapelle (ligne 2) Gare du Nord (lignes 4, 5, RER B, RER D)
Bus : 35, 38, 45, 48, 91, 350
Vélib’ : Station n°18040, 28 bd de la Chapelle
Sunday october 4
19h
RER A Nanterre-Ville
Bus n°157 / n°159 / n°160 arrêt rue des Anciennes-Mairies
Saturday december 12
20h
Cassandra Miller, Traveller Song for a septet and tape (2016, rev. 2018). French premiere.
Cassandra Miller, Thanksong for voice and string quartet (2020). French premiere.
L’Instant Donné.
Juliet Fraser, voice
Florentin Ginot and Katharina Ernst, GORDE (2026) for double bass, drum kit and electronics. Commissioned by the Festival d’Automne à Paris. World premiere.
Florentin Ginot double bass, composition and concept. Katharina Ernst drum kit, composition and concept. Theresa Baumgartner visuals and lighting design. Yann Bouloiseau sound design.
In partnership with La Muse en Circuit and the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord.
With the support of
Song, singing, whether part of the popular tradition, one of Beethoven’s final string quartets, or music from Galicia, permeates the three parts of this programme. Song that does not belong only to the voice, but also with which the instruments react, as well as the different works, in interaction with each other, thereby magnifying a shared collective memory.
Traveller Song stems from the songs of a Sicilian cart driver, collected in the 1950’s. With great humility, Cassandra Miller records herself alongside this archive material and adds to it several recordings of her voice. She does so in a way which is free of all lyrical convention, giving rise to a feeling of intimacy and intense emotion, a “shaman-like lamentation”, added to by an instrumental sextet.
Drawing upon Holy Song of Thanksgiving of a Convalescent to the Divinity, the third movement of Beethoven’s String Quartet op.132, Thanksong perpetuates the inaugural gentleness of pendulum-like awakening, and the expression of a form of recognition, or gratitude. The musicians reply to Miller, the voice of whom, singing the quartet parts, plays out in their headphones.
In GORDE, which mirrors and extends this diptych and its subtle workings, the double-bass of Florentin Ginot and the drums of Katharina Ernst build up the contours of cinematographic soundscapes from the post-industrial era. On the one side, we have the Spanish alalá, altered by a multitude of distortions, and void of any rhythm; on the other, the pulse of techno or the irregular, chaotic rhythms of free jazz.
At the Maison de la Musique in Nanterre, Florentin Ginot presents GORDE with Katharina Ernst, followed by Intimacy with krumper Germain Zambi.
See also
In the same place
Metro : La Chapelle (ligne 2) Gare du Nord (lignes 4, 5, RER B, RER D)
Bus : 35, 38, 45, 48, 91, 350
Vélib’ : Station n°18040, 28 bd de la Chapelle
RER A Nanterre-Ville
Bus n°157 / n°159 / n°160 arrêt rue des Anciennes-Mairies