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Variations, Legowelt & Etienne Jaumet play Manu Dibango
directed by Nathan Benisty; produced by Sourdoreille Production, France Télévisions, Radio France and Théâtre du Châtelet; performed by Legowelt and Étienne Jaumet, 1970-, in Variations (Paris, Ile-de-France: Qwest TV, 2021), 33 mins
The French television series Variations focused on bringing together electronic players in a duo setting to compose new music inspired by a variety of artists. It stated: “The tone is set with a timeless recipe where four duos from different musical worlds—between electronic and scholarly music—offer a creat...
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directed by Nathan Benisty; produced by Sourdoreille Production, France Télévisions, Radio France and Théâtre du Châtelet; performed by Legowelt and Étienne Jaumet, 1970-, in Variations (Paris, Ile-de-France: Qwest TV, 2021), 33 mins
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The French television series Variations focused on bringing together electronic players in a duo setting to compose new music inspired by a variety of artists. It stated: “The tone is set with a timeless recipe where four duos from different musical worlds—between electronic and scholarly music—offer a creation around a common repertoire.” In this episode, recorded on Septembre 30, 2021, the West Coast Dutch technofunk producer Legowelt m...
The French television series Variations focused on bringing together electronic players in a duo setting to compose new music inspired by a variety of artists. It stated: “The tone is set with a timeless recipe where four duos from different musical worlds—between electronic and scholarly music—offer a creation around a common repertoire.” In this episode, recorded on Septembre 30, 2021, the West Coast Dutch technofunk producer Legowelt meets up with French alto saxophonist and electronics player Etienne Jaumet to perform a grooved and mysteriously spacey show inspired by the renowned France-based saxophonist/vibraphonist Manu Dibango (who passed away at 86 from Covid-19 on 24 March 2020). Dibango’s music is a groundbreaking fusion of jazz, funk and his native Cameroon traditional sound. He broke onto the worldwide scene in 1972 with his best-known hit song “Soul Makossa,” that was illicitly sampled later on pop songs by both Michael Jackson and Rihanna. Legowelt, who grooved to the funk-fueled music behind his electronic setup, had posted a preview online that the show at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris was “a great honor as I have been enchanted by his magical music.” The sentiment was no doubt shared by Jaumet, best known in France for his legendary electronics group Zombie Zombie. He played electronics and dynamically blew his alto, playing the themes but then launching into long jazzy improvisations. He and Legowelt often played call-and-response lines in the beat. Both also sang with the use of vocoders, again engaging in energetic conversations. The large Covid-masked crowd in the theater rewarded the pair with a well-deserved, enthusiastic standing ovation. Dan Ouellette
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Date Written / Recorded
2021-09-30
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Popular Music
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Legowelt, Étienne Jaumet, 1970-
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Sourdoreille Production, France Télévisions, Radio France, Théâtre du Châtelet
Author / Creator
Nathan Benisty, Legowelt, Étienne Jaumet, 1970-
Date Published / Released
2021
Publisher
Qwest TV
Series
Variations
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Variations, Season 6, Vitalic & Emel play Ghada al-Samman
directed by Nathan Benisty; produced by Sourdoreille Production, Théâtre du Châtelet and Radio France; performed by Vitalic, 1976- and Emel Mathlouthi, 1982-, in Variations, Season 6 (Paris, Ile-de-France: Qwest TV, 2021), 33 mins
For its sixth season, the Variations team brings together Pascal Arbez-Nicolas, aka Vitalic, the master of the French electronic scene, and the composer-activist Emel Mathlouthi, whose first album released in 2011, Ma parole est libre, has become an emblem of the Tunisian Jasmine Revolution. Filmed on September 30...
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directed by Nathan Benisty; produced by Sourdoreille Production, Théâtre du Châtelet and Radio France; performed by Vitalic, 1976- and Emel Mathlouthi, 1982-, in Variations, Season 6 (Paris, Ile-de-France: Qwest TV, 2021), 33 mins
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For its sixth season, the Variations team brings together Pascal Arbez-Nicolas, aka Vitalic, the master of the French electronic scene, and the composer-activist Emel Mathlouthi, whose first album released in 2011, Ma parole est libre, has become an emblem of the Tunisian Jasmine Revolution. Filmed on September 30, 2021, this recording is a rare moment of symbiosis between two artists who normally have very different viewpoints, exchanging a few...
For its sixth season, the Variations team brings together Pascal Arbez-Nicolas, aka Vitalic, the master of the French electronic scene, and the composer-activist Emel Mathlouthi, whose first album released in 2011, Ma parole est libre, has become an emblem of the Tunisian Jasmine Revolution. Filmed on September 30, 2021, this recording is a rare moment of symbiosis between two artists who normally have very different viewpoints, exchanging a few smiles between harmonic progressions. The first interpretation of poetic texts in the history of Variations, this concert updates the repertoire of the Syrian writer and journalist Ghada al-Samman who, inspired by the notions of freedom and self-expression, has made herself known as a lyricist of the civil war that broke out in Lebanon in 1975. Audacious, creative, and disturbing, the set transcribes the surrealist dimension on the border between plausibility and nightmare that characterizes the writings of al-Samman. Similar to a ritual officiated between Arabic and French, the concert alternates powerfully hypnotizing passages and more rhythmic sections. The public is captive, as if bewitched by this “hungry harmony” born from the beats of the producer accustomed to dancefloors and charismatic singers. Between voice loops and electronic dissonances, the lights oscillate in the Théâtre du Châtelet for a futuristic set ending with a well-deserved standing ovation. Laure Marlot
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2021-09-30
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Popular Music
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Vitalic, 1976-, Emel Mathlouthi, 1982-
Contributor
Sourdoreille Production, Théâtre du Châtelet, Radio France
Author / Creator
Nathan Benisty, Vitalic, 1976-, Emel Mathlouthi, 1982-
Date Published / Released
2021
Publisher
Qwest TV
Series
Variations
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Delia Derbyshire Appreciation Society
performed by Delia Derbyshire Appreciation Society (Six Degrees Records, 2017), 47 mins
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performed by Delia Derbyshire Appreciation Society (Six Degrees Records, 2017), 47 mins
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Popular Music
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Music recording
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Delia Derbyshire Appreciation Society
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Delia Derbyshire Appreciation Society
Date Published / Released
2017
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Six Degrees Records
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(Diatribe Records, 2016), 36 mins, 7 page(s)
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Popular Music
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Music recording
Date Published / Released
2016
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Diatribe Records
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Copyright © 2016 by Diatribe Recordings Ltd.
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(Diatribe Records, 2016), 14 page(s)
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Popular Music
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Music recording
Date Published / Released
2016
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Diatribe Records
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(Diatribe Records, 2016), 36 mins, 8 page(s)
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Popular Music
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Music recording
Date Published / Released
2016
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Diatribe Records
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performed by TeaTroniK (Diatribe Records, 2016), 34 mins, 8 page(s)
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Popular Music
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Music recording
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TeaTroniK
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TeaTroniK
Date Published / Released
2016
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Diatribe Records
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MVA Collection, Sounds Unbound: Being an Independent Musician in the Digital Age
directed by Jiaqi Yu, fl. 2016; produced by Jiaqi Yu, fl. 2016, in MVA Collection (Los Angeles, CA: University of Southern California, MVA Collection, 2016), 25 mins
In the last four decades, the Digital Revolution has exerted tremendous impact on the music industry—the transition from analog to digital technology and the increasing availability of digital tools have liberated the creative process, allowing an increasing number of indie musicians to work out of the mainstrea...
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directed by Jiaqi Yu, fl. 2016; produced by Jiaqi Yu, fl. 2016, in MVA Collection (Los Angeles, CA: University of Southern California, MVA Collection, 2016), 25 mins
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In the last four decades, the Digital Revolution has exerted tremendous impact on the music industry—the transition from analog to digital technology and the increasing availability of digital tools have liberated the creative process, allowing an increasing number of indie musicians to work out of the mainstream framework and create their own products without the interference of major record companies. Indie musicians are becoming their own en...
In the last four decades, the Digital Revolution has exerted tremendous impact on the music industry—the transition from analog to digital technology and the increasing availability of digital tools have liberated the creative process, allowing an increasing number of indie musicians to work out of the mainstream framework and create their own products without the interference of major record companies. Indie musicians are becoming their own engineers, technicians and distributors, creating large quantities of work on their own terms. With the proliferation of composing software and digital systems, more and more artists are turning towards digitally generated synthetic sounds, while at the same time, strong voices of lament express the loss of “authenticity”, “humanity” and “performativity” among artists who are nostalgic for traditional instrumental performance. The film follows the threads of narratives given by various indie musicians to understand how digital technology has affected their artistic and personal identities while revealing, at the same time, what the digital age really offers despite its promises.
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Documentary
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Jiaqi Yu, fl. 2016
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Jiaqi Yu, fl. 2016
Date Published / Released
2016
Publisher
University of Southern California, MVA Collection
Series
MVA Collection
Topic / Theme
Musicians, Technology, Revolutions, Music
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Variations, Dubfire & Mari Samuelsen play Arvo Part
composed by Arvo Pärt, 1935-; produced by Sourdoreille Production and East India Company; performed by Dubfire, 1971- and Mari Samuelsen, 1984-, in Variations (Paris, Ile-de-France: Qwest TV, 2016), 26 mins
When the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt composed "Fratres" in 1977, he deliberately did not specify the instrumentation, which has resulted in numerous interpretations by string quartets, piano and violin or cello, with or without percussion. But Mari Samuelsen and Dubfire have gone beyond the “classic-contemporar...
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composed by Arvo Pärt, 1935-; produced by Sourdoreille Production and East India Company; performed by Dubfire, 1971- and Mari Samuelsen, 1984-, in Variations (Paris, Ile-de-France: Qwest TV, 2016), 26 mins
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When the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt composed "Fratres" in 1977, he deliberately did not specify the instrumentation, which has resulted in numerous interpretations by string quartets, piano and violin or cello, with or without percussion. But Mari Samuelsen and Dubfire have gone beyond the “classic-contemporary” framework to bring the work to another dimension. The Norwegian violin star, adored by Max Richter and for whom film composer Jame...
When the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt composed "Fratres" in 1977, he deliberately did not specify the instrumentation, which has resulted in numerous interpretations by string quartets, piano and violin or cello, with or without percussion. But Mari Samuelsen and Dubfire have gone beyond the “classic-contemporary” framework to bring the work to another dimension. The Norwegian violin star, adored by Max Richter and for whom film composer James Horner (Titanic, Braveheart ...) composed the concerto for her first album, has teamed up with Ali Shirazinia aka Dubfire, an American-Iranian DJ capable of igniting the dancefloors of Ibiza or winning a Grammy Award (for the remix of Dido "Thank You" with his duo Deep Dish) but also of attacking one of the most fascinating minimalist composers! And that is the beauty of this unprecedented encounter, initiated by the Sourdoreille collective and La Compagnie des Indes at the Cabaret Sauvage, as part of the Variations collection. The opportunity for the duo to deliver an electro-acoustic version of "Fratres", progressive and powerful, which starts with the original motive but moves more and more towards a minimal techno dance, and which does not fail to expose the true value of Mari Samuelsen’s virtuosity. A fascinating and innovative ritornello that honors the work of Arvo Pärt. Etienne Geremia
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Dubfire, 1971-, Mari Samuelsen, 1984-
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Sourdoreille Production, East India Company
Author / Creator
Arvo Pärt, 1935-, Dubfire, 1971-, Mari Samuelsen, 1984-
Date Published / Released
2016
Publisher
Qwest TV
Series
Variations
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Variations, Electric Rescue & Gaspar Claus play JS Bach
composed by Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750; performed by Electric Rescue and Gaspar Claus, 1983-, in Variations (Paris, Ile-de-France: Qwest TV, 2016), 28 mins
A grandiose overture on the famous notes of the Toccata. Gaspar Claus' cello acts like an organ under his effects pedals, and Electric Rescue’s machines enter the scene to give the strings a beautiful electric setting. The duo tackles the masterpiece of Johann Sebastian Bach, a monument that they will deconstruc...
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composed by Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750; performed by Electric Rescue and Gaspar Claus, 1983-, in Variations (Paris, Ile-de-France: Qwest TV, 2016), 28 mins
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A grandiose overture on the famous notes of the Toccata. Gaspar Claus' cello acts like an organ under his effects pedals, and Electric Rescue’s machines enter the scene to give the strings a beautiful electric setting. The duo tackles the masterpiece of Johann Sebastian Bach, a monument that they will deconstruct, rearrange, and shake up without restraint for half an hour. With great blows of distortions, electronic layers and techno inflection...
A grandiose overture on the famous notes of the Toccata. Gaspar Claus' cello acts like an organ under his effects pedals, and Electric Rescue’s machines enter the scene to give the strings a beautiful electric setting. The duo tackles the masterpiece of Johann Sebastian Bach, a monument that they will deconstruct, rearrange, and shake up without restraint for half an hour. With great blows of distortions, electronic layers and techno inflections, the two accomplices revisit Bach in an unexpected and highly enjoyable way. Gaspar Claus, who started playing the cello at the age of 5, masters his instrument and knows his classics, even if he has oriented his career towards other musical horizons. Here he takes a perverse pleasure in "trashing," to use his own word, the work of the master who has written so much for his instrument. Accustomed to electro-acoustic encounters, this is the first time that he has collaborated with Electric Rescue, a pillar of rave and French techno, as part of the Variations collection. This series brings together, at each concert, an electronic music producer and an instrumentalist who are challenged to reinterpret the work of an emblematic composer, and in the ranking of emblematic composers Bach certainly holds a choice place! It is therefore a daring but frankly successful challenge for Gaspar Claus and Electric Rescue, who offer a new reading by the German composer, resolutely modern and very elegant, ending with a devilish version of the Prelude of the Cello Suite No. 1 in G major as a finishing touch. A magisterial and emotional bow. Etienne Geremia
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Electric Rescue, Gaspar Claus, 1983-
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Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750, Electric Rescue, Gaspar Claus, 1983-
Date Published / Released
2016
Publisher
Qwest TV
Series
Variations
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