A documentary by Philippe Langlois and Christian Bahier.
Screening of the film on Saturday, June 8 at 6:30pm followed by a meeting with the composer Jean-Luc Hervé.
© IRCAM-Centre Pompidou, 2013

Simultaneously bereavement, anarchy, and celebration, Ludus de Morte Regis is the memory of three anarchists who tried to assassinate the king Umberto 1 at the end of the 19th century. The rebellion of the anarchist Passannante against the king and the state of nature, the insanity of an impossible act, the lunacy of Nietzsche, the crucified signs a letter addressed to Umberto. A great number of extreme and burlesque movements can be found in this work that is a “state of exception”.

• Heera Kim Things We Said Today, premiere Cursus 2
• Mauro Lanza Ludus de Morte Regis, commissioned by Les Cris de Paris as a part of “Identité et Environnement Sonore”, premiere
• Jean-Luc Hervé Germination*, commissioned by the French government, premiere

Conductor Jean Deroyer, Geoffroy Jourdain
IRCAM Computer Music Design Gilbert Nouno, Manuel Poletti, Heera Kim, Serge Lemouton*
IRCAM Pedagogical Advisors Éric Daubresse
Landscape Artist, stage design consultant Astrid Verspieren*

An IRCAM-Centre Pompidou, L’Itinéraire, and Les Cris de Paris coproduction. With the support of the Sacem (scholarships for Cursus 2 composers). In collaboration with the École Du Breuil, school of landscape art and techniques, establishment managed by the City of Paris*.

6:30pm, IRCAM, Igor-Stravinsky Room

Screening of the film “Images of a work n°16: Germination, by Jean-Luc Hervé”, written and produced by Philippe Langlois and Christian Bahier. Free entry upon presentation of a ticket for the evening’s concert.

© Astrid Verspieren

Interview by Frank Madlener, February 14, 2013
In the part of ManiFeste-2013: Germination
Saturday, June 8 at 7:30pm, IRCAM
On the Spot © IRCAM, February 2013

Jean-Luc Hervé was born in 1960. He studied composition at the conservatoire de Paris with Gérard Grisey, where he received a Premier Prix in composition. In 1997 he received the “Goffredo Petrassi” prize for his composition Ciels for orchestra. He was composer-in-research at IRCAM and received a fellowship from the DAAD in Berlin (2003). The profound effect of a residence at Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto, along with a doctoral thesis in aesthetics and subsequent research at IRCAM, have helped to shape Hervé’s compositional outlook.

He founded the group Biotop(e) with Thierry Blondeau and Oliver Schneller in 2004. His works have been performed by ensembles such as Orchestre National de France, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France, Orchestra Sinfonica dell’Emilia-Romagna “Arturo Toscanini”, Instant Donné, Court-Circuit, Ensemble Intercontemporain, 2E2M, Contrechamps, Berliner Symphonie Orchester, KNM Berlin, Musik Fabrik, Orchestra della Toscana. He is currently a teacher of composition at the Conservatoire de Boulogne-Billancourt.