Mattanza_25
Mattanza_25, a sound work for five musicians and one female musician, one dancer and recorded sounds, is the third performance in the New Folk project, which Cie. Risonanze dedicates to Sicilian culture.
About this event
A journey into memory, representing through music, sounds, voices and movement a thousand-year-old culture condemned to oblivion.
Organisation: ENSEMBLE TELEMAQUE
Since its formation in Marseille in 1994, the Télémaque ensemble has devoted itself to creating and disseminating works of our time. Georges Boeuf, Régis Campo and Pierre-Adrien Charpy, southern composers, as well as Thierry Machuel, Jean-Luc Hervé, Tatiana Catanzaro, François Narboni, Kasia Glowicka, Bernard Cavanna, Ivan Fedele, Sarah Lianne Lewis, Bekah Simms, Richard Baker, James Callahan, Lynn Plowman… receive commissions from the ensemble, which claims the greatest aesthetic openness.
In the 2000s, under the impetus of Raoul Lay, the Télémaque musical company developed original combinations with other performing arts: Olivier Py, Bernard Kudlak (Cirque Plume), Catherine Marnas, Nathalie Pernette and Frédéric Flamand are among Télémaque’s artistic partners, serving the music of Mauricio Kagel, Steve Reich and Raoul Lay himself.
The ensemble has always also performed in concert at the most innovative music venues in France and abroad: Festival d’Ile de France, Festival Présences at Radio-France, Cité de la Musique in Paris, National Auditorium of Madrid, Gaudeamus Music Week in Amsterdam, Enescu Festival in Bucharest, Flagey Hall in Brussels, Venice Biennale, New Music Week in Shanghai, CCK in Buenos Aires, Spring Festival in Malta… Over the past ten years, Télémaque has performed in more than 15 countries.
In addition to creation, Télémaque has made it its mission to awaken curiosity and make all contemporary musical aesthetics audible, everywhere and to everyone. To this end, it has carried out specific work for young audiences, aimed at child spectators (Nokto, La mort Marraine, La revue de Cuisine) or participating singers (La jeune fille aux mains d’argent, King Kong) and/or percussionists (Nous d’ici-bas).
After serving in 2011 as the lead ensemble of the ECO project (European Contemporary Orchestra), an acoustic and electric ensemble of 33 musicians dedicated to creation, Télémaque joined the Pôle Instrumental Contemporain (PIC) in 2013 and committed to a regional project that enabled it to receive the Atelier de Fabrique artistique label, awarded by the Ministry of Culture in 2016.
In 2016, in co-production with around fifteen regional operators, the organization staged a special event entitled Grandes musiques pour petites oreilles. The success of the first two editions led in 2019 to Tous en sons, the first national youth music festival, now independent but for which Télémaque remains a supporter and valued partner.
Since 2018, Télémaque and Raoul Lay have led the October Lab project, an international platform for musical creation and exchange, through which the ensemble began performing concerts in 2019 in Shanghai and Nanning, and soon in Montreal, Winnipeg, Cardiff…
In 2021 and 2022, during the lockdown period, Télémaque created the Mondes Sonores en Territoire initiative, supported by the Centre National de la Musique. It was within this framework that “Trois Corolles”, a work by Pierre-Adrien Charpy, was created for students at eight conservatories in the Southern Region spread across three departments, involving more than 250 participants, including students, teachers and Télémaque professionals.
