A Question of Context: A Systemic Approach to Mixed Music Practice
Pierre Alexandre Tremblay
ACTOR Speaker Series
We cordially invite you to a series of lectures organized as part of the MUL6249 seminar “Composition, Interpretation, and Analysis of Contemporary Orchestration” and the EROC project (Ensemble de recherche en orchestration contemporaine) of the SSHRC ACTOR research partnership. The event is open to all and admission is free. Please note that all lectures will be given in French.
Room B-520, Faculty of Music, Université de Montréal
Program:
- November 16, 2022: Pierre Alexandre Tremblay – A Question of Context: A Systemic Approach to Mixed Music Practice
- November 23, 2022: Emilie Girard-Charest – The importance of timbre in the perception of intonation on the cello: a performer and composer's perspective
- November 30, 2022: Alla Zagaykevych – Particularities of orchestration in instrumental works with electronic instruments
Abstract:
What happens when we consider the ecosystem of mixed music practice in all its richness and complexity? What dynamic relationships exist between ideation, performance, computer and instrumental techniques as orchestration, between their limits, affordances, and the tastes and interests of the different communities that practice these musics? In this presentation, Pierre Alexandre will present the state of his thinking in 25 years of mixed chamber music practice, ignoring once and for all the boundaries between his practices, integrating his popular and noise music techniques, his electroacoustic-influenced concepts of gestalt perception, and his collaborative political leanings of the 'free' improvised music milieu. From these aesthetic and political ideas and biases, he will expose the ramifications of rendering musical ideas into the reality of a mixed-media piece, specifically in the project of translating the electroacoustic piece unseulmotnesuffitpas1 into the piece for cello and electronics unseulmotnesuffitpas3, for (and with) Seth Parker Woods, from the preliminary sessions to the patching to the score and his orchestral thinking.
Références:
- Tremblay, Pierre Alexandre (2012) Considérations pragmatiques en musique mixtes: une approche systémique de l’inter-influence entre la composition, l'interprétation et la technique. In: Symposium: Sixty years of mixed music, 22nd - 23rd November 2012, Paris, France.
- Tremblay, Pierre Alexandre (2017) Tuning to Trust: System Calibration as Creative Enabler. In: 43rd International Computer Music Conference 2017, 15-20 October 2017, Shanghai Conservatory of Music.
Biography:
Pierre Alexandre Tremblay (Montreal, 1975) is a composer, bassist and performer of electronic devices, both solo and in groups, between electroacoustic, contemporary jazz, mixed and improvised music. He has also worked in popular music, and practices creative programming. His music is released on empreintes DIGITALes. He studied composition with Michel Tétreault, Marcelle Deschênes and Jonty Harrison; bass guitar with Jean-Guy Larin, Sylvain Bolduc and Michel Donato; analysis with Michel Longtin and Stéphane Roy; and studio techniques with Francis Dhomont, Robert Normandeau and Jean Piché. Pierre Alexandre Tremblay is a professor of composition and improvisation at the University of Huddersfield (England, UK). He enjoys spending time with his family, reading prose, and taking long walks. Founder of the no-tv collective, he does not own a working television set.