The Frac invites you to the launch of its new edition Joëlle Léandre versus Julien Blaine, an event celebrating ten years of sound creation and daring archives. Through performances, exchanges and archives, discover the dialogue between these two avant-garde figures, accompanied by musicologist Jean-Yves Bosseur.
Program
6:30pm: Meeting with the author and the two artists
Continuing its exploration of the temporal dimension and transdisciplinarity, embodied both in its collection and in its artistic and cultural project, in 2012 the Frac initiated the Sound Houses project, dedicated to the question of sound in art. Since then, the project has taken on a variety of forms, including an editorial collection, a concert series and a specialized archive. Since 2012, the Frac has housed the audiovisual archives of Julien Blaine, and since 2014, those of Joëlle Léandre. The activist-reviser-poet of orality and the adventurous avant-garde double-bassist-improviser met on numerous occasions during their artistic peregrinations. Musicologist Jean-Yves Bosseur spoke with these two formidable characters to trace the constellation of notions that link them and that they share, and which are so many points of access to the history of aesthetic revolutions that have marked the history of music and art in the 20th century.
An erudite musicologist with a doctorate in aesthetic philosophy, Jean-Yves Bosseur is the author of numerous works on twentieth- and twenty-first-century music and on the links between music, sound and the visual arts. Also a composer, he often collaborates with visual artists and poets.
7.15pm and 7.30pm: Performances by Joëlle Léandre and Julien Blaine
Joëlle Léandre is a world-renowned double bassist and composer whose unconventional practice is often more performance than concert. In addition to musical improvisation, her artistic approach embraces theoretical writings, poetry, painting, drawing and dance. For this evening, she will propose an improvisation linked to her instrumental practice in the field of free music.
Julien Blaine established himself as one of the most prolific poets of his generation in the 50s. And from the 60s onwards, he never ceased to embody (strip down) language. Through performance and publishing, he strives to deliver the corporeal quality of the poem. At the Frac, the artist will perform Récital sans parole with conches and horns from various continents, his own sounds and a certain kind of music. Accompanied by excerpts from his text Parodie sérieuse (La litanie).
8pm: Signing session and aperitif
All evening: Presentation of the Sound Houses sound archive. Exhibition of a selection of archives, and sound extracts to listen to in the boutique and hall.
Program
6:30pm: Meeting with the author and the two artists
Continuing its exploration of the temporal dimension and transdisciplinarity, embodied both in its collection and in its artistic and cultural project, in 2012 the Frac initiated the Sound Houses project, dedicated to the question of sound in art. Since then, the project has taken on a variety of forms, including an editorial collection, a concert series and a specialized archive. Since 2012, the Frac has housed the audiovisual archives of Julien Blaine, and since 2014, those of Joëlle Léandre. The activist-reviser-poet of orality and the adventurous avant-garde double-bassist-improviser met on numerous occasions during their artistic peregrinations. Musicologist Jean-Yves Bosseur spoke with these two formidable characters to trace the constellation of notions that link them and that they share, and which are so many points of access to the history of aesthetic revolutions that have marked the history of music and art in the 20th century.
An erudite musicologist with a doctorate in aesthetic philosophy, Jean-Yves Bosseur is the author of numerous works on twentieth- and twenty-first-century music and on the links between music, sound and the visual arts. Also a composer, he often collaborates with visual artists and poets.
7.15pm and 7.30pm: Performances by Joëlle Léandre and Julien Blaine
Joëlle Léandre is a world-renowned double bassist and composer whose unconventional practice is often more performance than concert. In addition to musical improvisation, her artistic approach embraces theoretical writings, poetry, painting, drawing and dance. For this evening, she will propose an improvisation linked to her instrumental practice in the field of free music.
Julien Blaine established himself as one of the most prolific poets of his generation in the 50s. And from the 60s onwards, he never ceased to embody (strip down) language. Through performance and publishing, he strives to deliver the corporeal quality of the poem. At the Frac, the artist will perform Récital sans parole with conches and horns from various continents, his own sounds and a certain kind of music. Accompanied by excerpts from his text Parodie sérieuse (La litanie).
8pm: Signing session and aperitif
All evening: Presentation of the Sound Houses sound archive. Exhibition of a selection of archives, and sound extracts to listen to in the boutique and hall.
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