THIRTEEN ORGANA
Musique contemporaineCreation : Arnaud Petit's music
At the Palais du Tau, 2, Place du Cardinal Luçon 51100 Reims
Thirteen Organa is a real vocal composition nugget.
The Organa designed in medieval latin language a kind of vocal polyphony. Arnaud Petit has imagined a cycle of thirteen around Novarina writings. "His writing make me thinking at composition methods which was used in Middle-Ages, something enough old, at the beginning of polyphony idea. I wanted playing with some expressions of his Ajour text to work on the grammar sense of words", the compositor explains who recognize a mystic linguist in Novarina, which words go into details, open and light the language field. Arnaud Petit created odd polyphonies which only appeal to one soprano voice. However, he increases with a computer and loudspeakers and overlay the singer's split voices pre-registered. "This false polyphony requires finest adjustments allows a multi-levels listening from voice in space, says the compositor, with thinking that synchron voices change between themselves."
COPRODUCTIONS | Le Grain Théâtre de la Voix | Grand Théâtre de Reims | centre national de création musicale La Muse en Circuit 2007 - Cesaré 2009 | EN PARTENARIAT AVEC Musik der Jahrhundert Stuttgart, Institut Français de Berlin | AVEC LE SOUTIEN DE | Stiftung Genshagen | Opéra national de Bordeaux | Institut Français à Berlin | Festival Scènes d'Europe Reims |Culturesfrance |Fond Franco allemand pour la musique contemporaine 2009 |LA COMPAGNIE LE GRAIN EST CONVENTIONNÉE PAR : Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication / DRAC Aquitaine, ET SUBVENTIONNEE | par le Conseil Régional d'Aquitaine| Conseil Général de Gironde | Ville de Bordeaux |
Music, libretto, and musical direction Arnaud Petit Texts by Valère Novarina taken from LUMIÈRES DU CORPS , édition P.o.l. Traduction Leopold von Verschuer Artistic direction Christine Dormoy Musical Computing Laurent Sellier et Samuel Allain Artistics collaborations Philippe Marioge, Cidalia Da Costa , Paul Beaureilles General production Emmanuel Bassibé |With Guillermo Anzorena baritone [Neue Vocalsolisten] Martin Nagy tenor [Neue Vocalsolisten] Géraldine Keller voices Léopold von Verschuer narrator And vocal presence from : Daniel Gloger contre-ténor et Andreas Fischer basse [Neue Vocalsolisten]