To hear on Sunday 1 and 8 January 2012, 14 - 21 Uhr
Un souffle de vie (A Blow of Life)
Video und elektroakustische Musik (2006, German Premiere)
by Mario Mary
Piece in three parts (Inconsciente electroacústico, Sombras de tango, Malambo sensual)
Commission: INA-GRM. Premiered in Olivier Messiaen hall of Radio France, Paris.
The presentation at ohrenhoch of "Un souffle de vie" is split up in two independent rooms. This means that the soundtrack of "Un souffle de vie" is played, without image, in the gallery's listening space over the legendary loudspeaker installation, and at the same time in the basement the video "Un souffle de vie" is presented with image and sound. I arranged this idea with Mario Mary, because I think that this form of presentation is very interesting, and the spaces of ohrenhoch are as if they were built for this experiment.
Knut Remond
ohrenhoch - the Noise Shop
Mario Mary about "Un souffle de vie" [16']:
The visual materials had been utilised in the same way as the sound materials in the electroacoustic music composition. The work is impregnate of sensuality and a certain erotism integrating the musical and visual discourse. Each movement of this piece touch a different topic, where the sound-image relationship had been speciality created. The music it's not an accompaniment of image, she's also an autonomous music work. The image had been, in general, conceived as a painting alive, which move and transform incessantly. Abstract wefts are "visited" sporadically for figurative sequences, creating a dream world, principal topic of the first movement. The second and third movement evoke the sonorities of two argentine's dances: Tango and Malambo respectively.
Mario Mary is a Doctor of “Aesthetic, Science and Technology of Arts” (University Paris VIII), actually he teaches "Electroacoustic Composition" at Prince Rainier III Music Academy of Monaco, and is the artistic director of Monaco/Electroacoustique – International Meeting of Electroacustic Music.
Between 1996 and 2010, he teaches at the University Paris VIII and is the artistic director of the Computer Music Series of Concerts.
Mario Mary begins his musical studies in Argentine, where he’s graduated as Composition Professor at the National University of La Plata. Simultaneously, he studied Orchestral Conducting and Computer Music. Since 1992 he has continued his studies in Paris, at GRM, National Conservatory of Music, IRCAM and University Paris VIII. He worked as a composer in research at the IRCAM, where he realised "AudioSculpt Cross-Synthesis Handbook" in 1995, and "Control editors" (interfaces Open Music for AudioSculpt) in 2003.
Teacher, researcher and composer, Mario MARY has been invited by numerous institutions to make compositions and to give conferences. His compositions have been played at various important international events of contemporary music.
His aesthetic interests are directed toward the creation of music whose search generates emergent signs of the new century aesthetic tendencies. Since he was fifteen years old, he has been developing the technique of Electroacoustic Orchestration and the concept of Polyphony of the Space. Recently, he has begun to incorporate in his musical work experimental video images devised by him.