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Grand Soir Numérique 

Pierre Jodlowski / Yang Song / Edgard Varèse / Tryphème and Ulysse Lefort / Tatsuru Arai / with the Ensemble Intercontemporain and Ircam

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Friday 8 December 2023 from 20h to 23h

  • Philharmonie de Paris
    221 avenue Jean Jaurès
    75019 Paris

Duration: 2 hours with interval
Price: from 10 to 26€

The show is preceded by a round table discussion on “Digital technology and sound creation” at 6.30pm (Free admission)

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Since its inception in 2015, Grand Soir Numérique has become one of the highlights at Biennale Némo, fusing contemporary music (Ensemble Intercontemporain and Ircam) with audiovisual performances (staged by Biennale Némo) and, of course, audiences under their spell for one spectacular evening.

© Tatsuru Arai

Edgard Varèse was already exploring the relationship between science and music in 1924, in Intégrales, a cult work that still sounds just as modern today. In Re-Solarization and Thermo-Ton, Japanese composer and videographer Tatsuru Arai attempts to convey musical expression through sight and other senses.

In LAVA, by the French duo Tryphème and Ulysse Lefort, the music modulates the projected video in real time through an impressive use of artificial intelligence. Pierre Jodlowski, an artist well-versed in combining electronics with multimedia, will perform Time & Money, a work for percussion, electronics and video. Yang Song, who perpetually reinvents her music using technology, has created a new instrumental “vocality” through digital hybridization.

Roundtable: Digital technology and sound creation: Friday 8 December 2023 at 6.30pm
Amphitheatre of the Cité de la musique
Duration: 1 hour
Free admission

On the program

Pierre Jodlowski: Time & Money, for percussion and electronics
Yang Song: new work for ensemble and electronics (premiere)
Edgard Varèse: Intégrales, for eleven wind instruments and percussions
Tryphème and Ulysse Lefort: LAVA (short version)
Tatsuru Arai: Thermo-ton (excerpts) – Re-Solarization (excerpts)


Cover © LAVA, Tryphème et Ulysse Lefort

Co-produced with CENTQUATRE-PARIS and Philharmonie de Paris, in partnership with Ircam-Centre Pompidou