Fragments of the future

The ideal conservatory is not a place of conservative renunciation but rather one of exploratory dynamics. Before the What’s New ? festival, the Saint-Cloud Conservatory of Music and Dance will join TM+ in this work of awareness, training and transmission of the music of today’s times. Live with the actors of the times to come. Slipping into the group of apprentice musicians and their teachers, the members of TM+ – specialists in a repertoire in permanent revolution – bet on curiosity by deploying their instrumental tactics and their strategy for the future.

At the center of the program is Partiels (1975), a piece for 18 musicians that is itself at the heart of the Espaces acoustiques that Gérard Grisey composed over a decade. Acoustic, they nevertheless resonate with the recent contributions of electronics, both those that produce sound and those that scrutinize its components within the École spectrale, of which Grisey is a founder. Fragment of a hieratic and poetic whole, Partiels sucks us into a space and a time that go beyond us. Not that they are not ours, we are fully there, only they are increased by unheard of colors and multiple rhythms, deformed, inaccessible sometimes, which are those of geology, particles, and the living which palpitates and upsets us.