Jacques Demierre and Vincent Barras in Mar del Plata
- Date
- 18 October 2016
Prohelvetia République et canton de Genève Schweizerische Interpretengenossenschaft Negra40 Teatro Auditorium Mundo Dios Círculo Colombiano de Música Contemporánea Club del Dibujo Matik-Matik
Present Jacques Demierre and Vincent Barras in Mar del Plata Interpreting BarDem Interpreting
Tuesday, October 18 8:30 pm. Matik-Matik, Bogotá (Colombia)
IBDI Interpreting BarDem Interpreting (2016) bh n (a) from the triptych Voicing Through Saussure (2006)
Interpreters collaborating in Bogotá Laura Cubides (German) Beatriz Elena Martinez (English) Rodolfo Acosta (French) Benjamin Calais (Spanish)
Performers and composition: Jacques Demierre and Vincent Barras.
Saturday, October 22, 10:00 pm. Mundo Dios, Mar del Plata John Cage’s four-voice lecture “Where Are We Going? And What Are We Doing?” (1961) Performers: Vincent Barras, Jacques Demierre, Mariano Losi, Martín Virgili.
RE A poetic-instrumental session
Luciana Caamaño – reading Mariana Pellejero – bass Emiliano Aldegani – cello and bass
Sunday, October 23, 9:30 pm. Foyer of the Teatro Auditorium, Mar del Plata IBDI Interpreting BarDem Interpreting (2016) bh n (a) from the triptych Voicing Through Saussure (2006)
Performers and composition: Jacques Demierre and Vincent Barras.
Interpreters collaborating in Mar del Plata Josefina Domecq Chantry (Spanish) Lili Gelman (Hebrew) Leandro Zuberman (French) Pamela Guruciaga (English)
Sound engineer: Thierry Simonot
Saturday, October 29, 9:30 pm. Sala Negra40, Buenos Aires IBDI Interpreting BarDem Interpreting (2016) bh n (a) from the triptych Voicing Through Saussure (2006)
Performers and composition: Jacques Demierre and Vincent Barras.
Interpreters collaborating in Buenos Aires Guillermo Lema (French) Hana Sinderalova (Czech) Victoria Maréchal (Spanish) María Rosa Hourbeigt (German)
Sound engineer: Thierry Simonot
The Swiss duo formed by Vincent Barras and Jacques Demierre will present Interpreting BarDem Interpreting (IBDI), their latest work, created in Zurich (Switzerland) in 2016 as part of the celebrations marking the centenary of the DADA movement. Their visit is part of a tour that includes presentations in Argentina, Uruguay, Colombia, the United States, Canada, France, and Switzerland across 2016–2017. IBDI extends the experimental tradition of sound and poetry beyond the boundaries established by literature, the performing arts, and music. Interpreting BarDem Interpreting takes the form of a duo reading a text-sound piece — in this case a composition based on the French language — orchestrated through a speaker system designed by sound engineer Thierry Simonot. In addition, four local interpreters simultaneously translate the text-sound into different languages.
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Vincent Barras is a professor of the History of Medicine and Science at the University of Lausanne, and is also a specialist in sound art, experimental literature, and sound poetry, practices he pursues as an author, performer, and programming director (at the Festival de la Bâtie, from 1985 to 2003, and with the Association Roaratorio since 2003). He has also worked as a translator, bringing contemporary poetry, music, and literature to wider audiences: he is co-founder of Éditions Contrechamps, together with Philippe Albèra and Jacques Demierre. With the publisher Héros-Limite, he has published a French version of John Cage’s “Silence,” a volume of the concrete-poetry pioneer Eugen Gomringer, an anthology of the American poet and thinker Robert Lax titled “1 2 3,” and a book of poems, “Journal de bord,” by the Greek poet Georges Seferis.
Jacques Demierre is a pianist, composer, and improviser. His experiments range across music — acoustic or electroacoustic, whether traditionally notated or freely improvised — as well as sound poetry and site-specific sound interventions. All of them are driven by the same pursuit: an awareness of sound. Author of numerous works for ensemble or voices, pianist Demierre also readily explores the evocative power of the most everyday noises. While expanding the sonic possibilities the piano offers, Demierre explores the ways it approaches the field of language. His critical thinking develops a highly “interdisciplinary” and cross-cutting conception of music, which has led him to work with a great many artists of the most diverse backgrounds.
Thierry Simonot is a sound engineer and musician. He has specialized in spatial sound distribution and electroacoustic music, principally with the loudspeaker orchestra of AMEG (the Geneva Electroacoustic Music Association). He has collaborated with Ensemble Vortex, Contrechamps, and Eklekto, and with the Archipel Festival, the Lucerne Festival, les Amplitudes, Présences Électroniques, Elefanten Mixtur Parade, Synthèse in Bourges, Arsis Thesis, and Musiques & Recherches in Belgium, the Donaueschingen Musiktage, and Ulrichsberg Kaleidophon.