Программа многоканальной музыки
29 сентября, 19:00
Музей нонконформистского искусства, Большой зал
Todor Todoroff
В 1987 в Брюссельском свободном университете получил диплом инженера электроники, специализирующегося в области телекоммуникации. Занял первое место на конкурсе электроакустической композиции в Королевской Консерватории (Брюссель, 1993), получил диплом аспиранта в Монсе (1996). Сооснователь и президент FeBeME-BEFEM - Бельгийской Федерации Электроакустической Музыки, и ARTeM - “Искусство, исследования, технология и музыка” (Брюссель), сооснователь Форума композиторов (Forum des Compositeurs).
Исследовал обработку речи в лаборатории экспериментальной фонетики в Брюссельском свободном университете (1987-1988), затем был начальником отдела исследований в области компьютерной музыки на Политехническом факультете Королевской Консерватории в Монсе (1992-1997), где разработанные им инструменты использовались такими композиторами как Leo Kupper и Robert Normandeau. В рамках различных проектов сотрудничал с IRCAM - там его программными инструментами пользовались Joshua Fineberg, Emmanuel Nunes, Luca Francesconi и другие.
Представлял Бельгию в рамках European COST (Европейское сотрудничество в области науки и техники) на конференциях "Цифровые аудио-эффекты" (DAFX, 1997-2001) и “Управление аудио-системами с помощью жестов” (CONGAS, 2003-2007).
В 2008 - 2013 занимался исследованиями в Институте нового медиа-искусства в составе Университета Монса; в 2008 - 2015 преподавал в рамках программы цифрового искусства в Школе Искусств Монса.
Параллельно с другими проектами, начиная с 1993 в ARTeM разрабатывал интерактивные системы для студий, концертов, звуковых инсталляций и танцевальных перформансов, исследуя возможности широкого спектра сенсоров, включая системы сенсоров собственной разработки для виолончелиста Stevie Wishart и разработки для интерактивных аудио-визуальных инсталляций FoAM в Брюсселе.
В электроакустической музыке он демонстрирует особый интерес к многоканальной композиции и использованию пространства, к экспериментам в поиске новых методов звуковых преобразований и интерактивности, где большую роль играют жесты. Он транспонирует концепцию séquence-jeu (игра с объектами и микрофоном, имеющая целью получение звуковых объектов) в цифровую среду для достижения максимальной выразительности.
Параллельно созданию “зафиксированной” акусматической музыки, занимается разработкой управляемых жестами виртуальных инструментов для живых перформансов в диапазоне от импровизации с такими музыкантами как Jean-Paul Dessy, Eric Sleichim и Stevie Wishart до концертов с ансамблем и сольных концертов, в ходе которых он часто использует пространственные алгоритмы, разработанные им для Zirkonium в период резиденции в ZKM. В его аудио-визуальной работе «eVanescens», созданной совместно с видео-художницей Laura Colmenares Guerra, на виолончелистке Sigrid Vandenbogaerde надеты сенсоры авторской конструкции, благодаря чему своими движениями она трансформирует как акустику собственного инструмента, так и интерактивное видео.
Приверженец диалога между различными формами искусства, он сочиняет музыку для кино, видео, танца, театра, создает звуковые инсталляции. Его длящееся по сей день сотрудничество с бельгийским хореографом Michèle Noiret началось в 1988, на данный момент выпущено 16 постановок. Он создает серии интерактивных инсталляций, часто в тандеме с художниками, как то с Marie-Jo Lafontaine, Fred Vaillant, Mario Benjamin, и Laura Colmenares Guerra.
Получил приз зрительских симпатий на Noroit Competition (Франция, 1991); удостоился упоминания (2002, 2005 и 2009), много раз был финалистом, а в 2007 занял первое место на Буржском фестивале. Сочиняет музыку по заказу Парижской Оперы, Института Электроакустической Музыки (Бурж, Франция), Musiques Nouvelles (Бельгия), Art Zoyd (Франция), Ars Musica (Бельгия), Musée des Beaux-Arts d’Angers (Франция), Festivaal van Vlaanderen (Бельгия) and Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM, Германия). Его музыка регулярно исполняется на международных фестивалях.
(translation Anton Iakhontov)
http://todoroff.be/
Réminiscences (Octophonic tape version, June 2005) 16’09
Traces, transformations, fluctuations, rhythms and spatial architectures are the essential elements of this composition. Different sonic materials are analysed according to psycho-acoustical criteria and processed using transpositions and sequential shifts, time quantisation and distortion and application of various selection criteria. This creates a transfigured reality through digital synthesis and the live instruments. This reality explores various sonic universes whilst keeping traces of some of the energetic and morphological characteristics of the original sound sources. For example, the particular rhythm and prosody of a voice will be transposed into instrumental phrases. A granulation algorithm controlled in real time by the Theremin player manipulates another voice and submits it to temporal, timbral and spatial changes. This voice is heard again reciting the verses of the Danish poet J. P. Jacobsen “Evig og uden forandring”. The phenomena of instability and balance running through the entire score are closely linked with the analysis methods. This can be heard in the strings, the Theremin, and the keyboard parts. In a paradoxical way, these unstable elements when juxtaposed, repeated, permuted and transformed, create rhythms that are emphasized by the percussion. Various techniques of sound-projection place the listener in virtual architectures that are alternatively smooth and metric, static and dynamic.
Commissioned by: Musiques Nouvelles / Art Zoyd
String instruments: Musiques Nouvelles (4 Violins, 2 Violas, 2 Cellos, 1 double bass)
Electronic instruments: Art Zoyd (Theremin, MIDI Keyboard and MIDI percussions)
Voice: Birgitte Odgaard Nielsen
MAX/MSP virtual instruments: ARTeM (1 computer for the Theremin, 1 for the transformations and 1 for the spatialisation)
Musical assistant at Art Zoyd: Carl Faia
Mixing: ARTeM
Live premiere: Brussels, 30/11/03
Premiere of the octophonic tape version: Bourges, 11/06/05
Instrumental version edited on: EXP-01 In-possible Records (2005)
VOICES Part II - Distant Voices (October 1999) 11'43
This is the second movement of an on-going project, exploring different ways of using voices. Each movement may be played independently. The CD is a stereo reduction that doesn't allow the full spatial organisation of sounds to come forward. The 8-tracks ADAT version should be preferred for concert.
"Distant Voices" is a very personal piece. I sometimes think that the reason I came to electroacoustic music composition has its roots in an often repeated child experience. Around the age of seven I started making small radios with a handful of components. Those radios had no amplifier and could only be listened to with a small crystal earphone. I spent hours listening to many different short-wave radio programs at night. As the tuning was far from perfect, I usually picked up two or three programs at the same time, focusing on one or the other, most often foreign languages I didn't understand.
Those distant, unknown and mysterious voices were fascinating. And so were the coincidences that arose from time to time between different programs, like if they were answering to each other even though they were probably thousands of miles away from each other and spoke different languages.
"Voices Part II - Distant voices" recreates an imaginary world of sounds reminiscent of those feelings of floating and endless spaces, of unlikely communication and mystery. Telephone voices are probably the perfect metaphor of this paradoxical situation of being both very close and absent at the same time. The space is illuminated by voices that appear, flicker, disappear, a bit like stars or lighthouses in a night full of beeps and long high-pitched frequency sweeps, modulated by slow changes in timbers, resonances and amplitudes.
"Voices Part II - Distant Voices" was commissioned by IMEB (Institut de Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges) and was premiered at the International Festival "Synthèse/00" in Bourges on the 13th of June 2000.
BACK TO REASON (November 1995) 2'34
This music was composed in 1995 on the silent film "Back to reason" realised by Man Ray in France in 1923. It was commissioned by the Société Philharmonique de Bruxelles and by the Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique for a concert celebrating the one hundred anniversary of Cinema at the Luna Theater in Brussels. A dedicated hardware was developed in order to synchronise the 35 mm silent film, restored by the Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique, with an ADAT tape playing the music.
The music was composed in hexaphonic format and most of the sound materials where generated by a real-time multichannel granular morphing algorithm developed at the Polytechnic Faculty in Mons, Belgium, and running on the IRCAM Sound Processing Workstation. Some other sound materials were generated with the help of a program simulating the behaviour of a pendulum and triggering sounds according to its position and speed.
Almost no effects were applied to the sounds to match with the nature of the images evolving from grainy textures to a naked woman body, with many unexpected abrupt cuts. I wanted to transpose this constant use of apparently non-related pictures and to stress the impression of non-sense present all along this dadaist movie.
This work was composed with the help of the "Communauté française de Belgique - Direction générale de la Culture".
REFLETS / VITESSE (November 1995) 7'20
This music was composed in 1995 for the one hundred anniversary of cinema on the silent film "Jeux des reflets et de la vitesse" realised by Henry Chomette in France in 1925. It was commissioned by the Société Philharmonique de Bruxelles and by the Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique for a concert celebrating the one hundred anniversary of Cinema at the Luna Theater in Brussels. A dedicated hardware was developed in order to synchronise the 35 mm silent film, restored by the Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique, with an ADAT tape playing the music.
The music was composed in hexaphonic format and most of the sound materials where generated by a real-time multichannel granular morphing algorithm developed at the Polytechnic Faculty in Mons, Belgium, and running on the IRCAM Sound Processing Workstation.
The older brother of René Clair, Henry Chomette made some experimental movies. This one is made out of retrieved fragments of pictures celebrating Paris as a town in perpetual movement. Most of the film is a long hypnotising run through Paris by train and by boat. The music accentuates the impression of speed and the constantly moving rhythmical and hexaphonic spatial sound textures surround the audience, creating spinning movements as well as a sort of musical travelling. Passing through tunnels and under bridges becomes almost a physical experience...
This work was composed with the help of the "Communauté française de Belgique - Direction générale de la Culture".
Beyond the Divide 9’36 (2010)
Laura Colmenares Guerra (video), Todor Todoroff (music)
Those water leaks remember their old paths. Every drop that falls begins a track and ends up in the same well. Is there autonomy in the quest for truth?
…She believed fate belonged to her, but she cannot help submerging in those labyrinths as they continue to darken.
Beyond the Divide forces the spectator through a visceral state of mind, as if climbing a steep cliff of the human psyche.
Featuring: Christina Vantzou and Valeria Garre.
The music was composed with the help of the "Communauté française de Belgique - Direction générale de la Culture".
The video was made with the help of the « Vlaamse Overheid ».
Dystopian Patterns 9’36 (2019)
Isabelle Nouzha (Film), Todor Todoroff (music)
Something happened to that city. Could be Beirut.
The movie received the help of the "Communauté française de Belgique - Direction générale de la Culture".
