Electroacoustic ensemble "le chantier" creats live geometrical spaces and gradiant sound density.
Electro noises and unusual acoustic sounds are the basic material for our experimentation in our electro expanded jazz quartet instrumetarium.
Fugue & heap architecture where electronic process "listen" and react to frequencies and dynamics, improvised pieces stand-up through strange worlds in state of emergency.
"Le Chantier" lives in Lyon (France-69) since january 2008.
julienlachal
tenor & soprano saxophones, claviharp, armenian doudouk, banshuri flutes & electronics
didierklein
prepared piano, prepared harpsichord, bandoneon, bass, sanza, objects
charlesbouisson
bass, korg ms20, ev keyboards & electronics
juliengrosjean
drums, percussion & objects
28.03.2009 CONCERT
Friche RVI, 20h30, av Lacassagne, Lyon
12.12..2008 CONCERT
Lyon 3, photograph workshop, with improvised video projection
08.04.2008 CONCERT
salle Gérard Philippe - ENM de Villeurbanne, France-69
improvised music competition on live short movies
public price winner 2008
28.05.2008 CONCERT
national school of architecture, St Etienne, France-42
festival musitecture
or phone to 0033 X607 236 370
arena - classical - box - patch - piano
arena - classical - box - patch - piano
arena - classical - box - patch - piano
arena - classical - box - patch - piano
- mixing console type MIDAS VENICE 240 or equivalent :
- 1 XLR for reeds, static microphone type AKG C414
- 2 XLR for acoustic piano, statics microphones type AKG C414 or Neuman TLM103
- 1 XLR for bass, microphone type AKG C414
- minimum 4 XLR for drums including 2 overheads Neuman KM184 or equivalent
- 6 (or 12) lines-in & 6 (or 12) DI : depending of stereo or suround space
- 2 stéréo reverbs, Lexicon PCM81 & TC M-one or equivalents
- 4 EQ Klarks-Technics or equivalent; 4 wages or independant stage monitors
- 2 or 4 mains (depending of stereo or suround sound space)
- 10 stands for micophones, 2 little desks h= around 70cm, 2 little desks h= around 50cm
- 4 220V arrivals on stage
arena - classical - box - patch - piano
- piano Yamaha série C or equivalent
OR
- piano Yamaha série U or equivalent
- 1 piano chair ajustable
resist | basement | interaction | elements | space
Music, as a resistance act in a regardless society for freedom, aims reactivity and spontaneous forms inside the political fields of contemporary musical expression.
Sound space is investigated from the roots of 20th century minimalism to free jazz and noise progressive cultures, linked to urban pardoxes that are inherent in a better world quest.
resist | basement | interaction | elements | space
Every worker-musician belongs to a specific sound teritory, based on his own practice and conceptual thinking to the instrument, either electro or acoustic. Striking knowleges and classical pratices to free music, physical and architectural concepts, strategy in sound process can build a teritory of collective experiments, weaving musical energies together.
Le Chantier means a place where meet a joystick & a harpsichord, a sax key concated in a wave synthesizer, a gumy ball rubed on the harmony desk, feathers and bolts on drum's skins, 0 & 1 scupting a white noise cloud...
resist | basement | interaction | elements | space
"usine" modular computer program can "listen" and react in live to the acoustic music.
Sensitivity to dynamics, frequencies & note's height permits computer to act & react in an autonomous way with a specific abstract sound created on the acoustic base. Through "patchs", preprogrammed by the musicians, the computer is told to react in real time, depending of the color and density we want for the improvisation.
In that way, "patches" and "scripts" are the only field of of composition in our improvised music.
resist | basement | interaction | elements | space
Elements are a first aproach to sound for a 5 pieces serie about earth, metal, water, air and fire. Each element as specific density, dynamics, touch qualities we aim to transpose in sound and music.
Computer is, in that way, a very interesting tool to modelize that elements and use them in interactive and generative processes.
For exemple, in "earth" the huge scale of materials can be used to granulize sounds until a total transformation in grains or produce a sound much more compact closed to stone. On earth, we are also able to walk, contrary to water, this as an influence on the way we improvise and listen to each other during live performances.
resist | basement | interaction | elements | space
Sound projections are spatialized, that means multiple points for music diffusion.
We use to play in 4 points (in each corner of the arena) or in a classical hal stereophony. Public is invited to come closer to the musicians, walk or lay-down to be inside of the building place and feel the different speeds, colors, for traveling in a strange sound magma.
music co-composed & co-produced by le chantier (lachal-klein-grosjean-bouisson) ©2008
site designed by julien lachal
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the music on that site has been created in Lyon, France-69, in 2008 / ©SACEM