GMEM
Groupe de Musique expérimentale de Marseille



CONCERT I
LUCIEN BERTOLINA - PATRICK PORTELLA

"ALLER SIMPLE" by Lucien Bertolina, with Norbert Bodetti, violoncello, and the composer at the mixer deck.
"VORTICOSAMENTE" by Lucien Bertolina with Norbert Bordetti, violoncello, and the composer at the mixer deck.
"LE VOYAGE D'HIVER" by Patrick Portella with Brigitte Balian, voice and the composer at the Synclavier II.

LUCIEN BERTOLINA
ALLER SIMPLE
Norbert Bordetti, cello
Lucien Bertolina, mixer

ALLER SIMPLE is an invitation to travel. Musical flashlights illumine the many levels of memory, withdrawing levels, intersections of images, scattered fragments, mirrors reflecting questions and answers, white sheets of absence.

LUCIEN BERTOLINA
VORTICOSAMENTE
Norbert Bordetti, cello
Lucien Bertolina, mixer

VORTICOSAMENTE
"This work tries to investigate the planes of friction between the synthetic sound and the "natural" sound of an instrument and to show the areas of transition and merger. It plays on notation as if it were a scenographic fact, a reacting score. It is, undoubtedly, one of the first works in the sphere of music and sound tape allowing the specific energy of the improviser, his qualities of hearing and responding, his speed of expression to assert themselves." (Christian Tarting)

PATRICK PORTELLA
LE VOYAGE D'HIVER
based on Franz Schubert's "Die Winterreise", texts by Wilhelm Müller

12 select songs:
Gute Nacht—good night
Wasserflut—water floods
Auf dem Flusse—on the river
Rast—rest
Frühlingstraum—dream of spring
Die Post—the post
Die Krähe—the crow
Täuschung—deception
Der Wegweiser—the signpost
Das Wirthaus—the inn
Die Nebensonnen—parhelions
Der Leiermann—the organ-grinder

CONCERT II
JACQUES DIENNET

"LA PAIX DES ETOILES"—"Star Peace"
Pierre-Yves Artaud, flutes
Jacques Diennet, Synclavier II

"I am dreaming of a sound, dreaming of an original sound, of an extremely heavy frequency, out of which the universe emerges gradually and periodically. This music is to range from noise to pure sound, from silence to silence." (J. Diennet)

CONCERT III
GEORGES BOEUF

"TROIS PRELUDES" by Georges Boeuf (10 minutes) for piano (first performance), Jean-Claude Pennetier, piano

"ABYSSI SYMPHONIA" by Georges Boeuf (25 minutes) for tape, Georges Boeuf, mixer
"NOCTURNE" by Georges Boeuf (25 minutes) for piano and tape, Jean-Claude Pennetier, piano, Georges Boeuf, mixer

GEORGES BOEUF
NOCTURNE
Jean-Claude Permetier, piano Georges Boeuf, mixer

Reversal of roles. The nocturnal inspiration of this work is undoubtedly responsible for the wish to reverse the areas of application, of exchanging the masks. One takes the other's place. The tape overhears nature as if a prepared score existed that is being played on an

instrument everyone living in the night knows well; it is made up of the sounds of insects, the cries of animals, of unidentified distant voices.

This is to be only the background. The piano, whose sound is used so exquisitely in the romantic form of the nocturn, has the task of a laboratory. It picks up and responds, filters, mixes the sounds it produces. The performer manipulates an accurate and perfected machine.

GEORGES BOEUF
TROIS PRELUDES
first performance, Jean-Claude Pennetier, piano solo

• Espaces (Spaces)


• Harmoniques (Harmonics)


• Boucles (Knots)

• Prelude


• Océan 1


• Intérieur 1/vivace


• Océan 2


• Intérieur 2/adagio


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