Vue panoramique sur les musiques curieuses pour violon seul
Written by composer Baudouin De Jaer from 2008 to 2013, the Sonates curieuses pour violon seul avec sourdine, for Sonic City, in an exhibition of dozens of graphic scores, the musician’s violin suspended from the ceiling and also a sound environment with the compositions both dense and intimate interpreted by itself.
In addition,Topographie imaginaire , a radio creation performed by Gauthier Keyaerts (with the support of the Commission for the radio creation of the Ministry of the Federation Wallonia-Brussels) which gives a personal aspect to Baudouin de Jaer’s words.
Production : Transcultures, Baudouin De Jaer
Partage d'écoute
The “partages d’écoute” (shared listening sessions) launched by City Sonic, consists of meetings with music lovers personalities (musicians, critics, artists, cultural leaders …) who will, for about an hour, share their passion on subjects related to sound practices illustrated by audio commentary extracts.
Baudouin De Jaer (composer, violonist, organiser/teacher) explains his composition-improvisation approach and comment his personal play list.
Jean-Marc Boucher presents is micro label Taâlem, which has released ambiant/field recording/experimental mini CDs by internationa artists.
Baudouin De Jaer
Baudouin de Jaer : Composer, violinist, Baudouin de Jaer (Be) studied composition with Philippe Boesmans, Henri Pousseur, Frederic Rzewski also with Bruce Mather at Mc Gill University of Montreal.
His path connects him permanently to the fire of Earth and cosmos motion. Fascinated by the huge antennas which keeps on probing the sounds of the universe, he draws his music, before writing it, on vast plans where planets line up and rotate, while searching the ground, turning it upside down like a real farmer or surveying it looking for instruments echoing in unison.