Stones, air, axioms
- Thursday April 25, 2024 at 8pm.
- Fixed price €8, box office on-site.
- Contact: Association TRIG – contactassotrig@gmail.com
TEMPLE DE L’ORATOIRE
Place de l’Oratoire, Nîmes
The “Stones, air, axioms” project, combining sound, music and architecture, has been developed for several years by the artist duo Thomas Tilly and Jean-Luc Guionnet. Thomas Tilly is a musician who uses microphones and loudspeakers as creative instruments. Jean-Luc Guionnet, a renowned figure in improvised music, uses saxophones.
“Stones, air, axioms” is a project that has already been performed in several places of worship across France and Europe. The artists explore the space at their disposal in a sonorous and physical approach. They take measurements of reverberation and other acoustic particularities. The result is a musical material that the artists use to create a sound piece specific to the venue.
“Stones, air, axioms” thus requires a four-day preparatory and in situ work in March 2024, with the participation of students from ésban – École supérieure des beaux-arts de Nîmes where Thomas Tilly and Jean-Luc Guionnet are also teaching a masterclass.
With:
Thomas Tilly: electroacoustic device
Jean-Luc Guionnet: saxophones
The artists :
Thomas Tilly
Centered on the study of the sound environment and its confrontation with the space in which it exists, Thomas Tilly’s work borrows as much from experimental musical research as from scientific research. Listening remains central to his approach, to the detriment of all forms of representation. What happens on location must be interpreted and then transmitted to the listener in conditions of total immersion, the subjectivity of this restitution residing in the senses rather than in a complex technical implementation. Thomas Tilly has presented his work in over fifteen countries and at numerous international festivals dedicated to experimental and improvised music: Audible Festival (Paris), Météo (Mulhouse), Bruisme (Poitiers), Electricity (Reims), Avant avant garde (Krakow), Simultan (Timisoara), Magnetic Traces (Melbourne), Observatori (Valencia), Synthèse (Bourges), Bridge Festival (Bulgaria), and more. Since 2001, he has run the Fissür label and writes regularly on phonography and his own artistic practice.
Jean-Luc Guionnet
Jean-Luc Guionnet studied visual arts and electroacoustic music with Christine Groult, Michel Zbar and Iannis Xénakis. A multi-instrumentalist (alto and soprano saxophone, organ, piano), he has improvised and experimented in the field of electroacoustic music with Eric La Casa, Eric Cordier, Pascal Battus, Edward Perraud, Frédéric Blondy, Sophie Agnel, André Almuro, Olivier Benoit and the groups Schams, Synapses, Calx, Phéromones and Hubbub. Going from a very physical approach to playing, to breathing, to a work of spatializing the sound, through complex sound devices.
Active since 2007, TRIG is an ever-evolving collective of musicians, comedians and visual artists, whose aim is to promote the digital and sound arts, in the form of various creations and projects. TRIG organizes the biannual Festival DELCO, which is dedicated to the promotion of experimental music and the digital arts, with its unusual and adventurous program since 2008. DELCO likes to collaborate with Nîmes’ key actors in the emergence of original artistic forms, which is why it has built up a number of partnerships over the years, notably with Nîmes Theater, Paloma, Périscope Theater, the Carré d’Art library and museum, Le Sémaphore, ANIMA and many others.
As part of the DELCO Experimental Music Biennial, in partnership with ésban. The Festival DELCO is supported by the City of Nîmes and the Gard department.