Concerts de Christine Groult · Camel Zekri et Serge Teyssot Gay · Philippe Ollivier

A three-part concert presented by Athénor, the national centre for musical creation in Saint-Nazaire, in partnership with Superforma as part of Le Mans Sonore.

Les eaux s'accordent, coda - Christine Groult
This piece is the final movement of "Les eaux s'accordent", an electroacoustic symphony composed in Saint-Nazaire. It concludes a vast project in which five female composers each wrote a movement inspired by four emblematic landscapes of this watery territory: Saint-Nazaire and its industrial and maritime coastline, Montoir-de-Bretagne and its port terminals, Donges and its reed beds on the edge of the refineries, and the Brière marshes, now a biosphere reserve. In this fifth movement, the atmospheres are superimposed and intertwined, reflecting the immensity, contrasts and vitality of an area in perpetual transformation.
Christine Groult, a major figure in French electroacoustic music, has for several decades been sculpting a sensitive body of work nourished by acousmatics, soundscapes and collective memories. Trained at the GRM, Ircam and the Sorbonne, she has developed a style in which listening becomes dramaturgy, combining documentary, poetry and sonic emotion. As a composer, teacher and creator of site-specific installations, she pursues demanding research into the poetic potential of sound and new forms of interpretation.

Fils conducteurs - Camel Zekri & Serge Teyssot-Gay
Camel Zekri and Serge Teyssot-Gay form a duo in which the guitar becomes both compass and storm. From the ancestral to the contemporary, they weave electric trances: Saharan pulsations, sculpted feedbacks, inhabited silences. Zekri unfolds modes and rhythms like stellar maps; Teyssot-Gay cuts urgent, vibrant lines of flight. Together, they open up passages: a music of encounters, of the moment, that plays with space, time and the present in games of non-zero sums...

Toco La Toccata - Philippe Ollivier
Toco la Toccata is an immersive work for bandoneon and real-time sound transformations, generated by Logelloop software designed by Philippe Ollivier. Somewhere between writing, oral tradition, improvisation and programming, the composer creates a singular musical language, nourished by modes, minimalism and contemporary repetitions.
At the centre of an enveloping device, the spectator plunges into a moving dialogue between the musician and the machine, where sound becomes material to be sculpted - sometimes even thanks to a tool that analyses hand gestures, like a Theremin.
Always evolving, Toco la Toccata reinvents itself with each performance, its pieces being continually transformed and renewed.