Schopfung

Published on May 15, 2013 RADIOKLOW·85 videos

"Schopfung is a collective work of electroacoustic music and video I conceived with the students of Philosophy and Electronic Music Workshop I created and have been supervising for two years in Lycée Edouard Herriot of Lyon. This work explores the question of natural and artistic beauty through music and image ans is based on a famous meditation of Hegel about this problem in his Aesthetics."

Some additional details including the synths used throughout the piece via Marc-Henri:

"As it vas programed, the students and I presented our work during a performance monday evening at 17h30 at the theatre of our High School (Lycée Edouard Herriot, in the city of Lyon).

We divided the performance in various pats : a first piece of music and video you will find here, a first live improvised set, a second video and music piece (Hadikat Raja XXI you already know because the students thought it fitted with our theme) and a last short improvised set. The live sets will be presented apart un a single video.

Here is the collective work of music and video by which we began.

Is is called Schopfung (Creation) un reference to Haydn's oratorio, Die Schopfung,(The Creation). Our them was the question of natural and artistic beauty after the mediations of Hegel about it in his Aesthetics. The idea of a link between this philosophical program and the concept of creation was suggested to us by fabulous recordings of electromagnetic waves from the solar system planets achieved by Voyager I and II during the seventies.

We used natural recorded sounds, various synths, and voices of two student girls members of the group.

Here is the approximative timetable of our various sound and music tracks. (All sounds except the natural sounds and the girls voices and the Bulgarian voices of Voices of Passion by Eastwest ,are original creations of the various instruments - when a sound, natural of coming out a synth or a natural voice is treated by the GRM Tools, I always give this precision)

I send you my best friendly regards,
Marc-Henri

0:30-4:50 : A deep bass group of sounds which are recordings of electromagnetic waves by Voyager I and II

Little Phatty : 01:28-01:50, 03:53-04:20 : ring like sounds

01-31-2:20 and 3:49-04:00 : PPG Wave 2V software of the Waldorf suite

02:26-03:48 : Filtatron of Moog various sounds including sparkle and rings like sounds

04:50-08:34 : all sounds by the Virus TI

08:35-09:00 : fire natural sound

08:55-09:42 Virus TI sounds

09:42-10:34 : Rock sounds and various other objects sounds treated by the GRM Tools

10:00-10:17 and 10:42-11:20 : Sounds by the Virus TI suggesting waters

10:50-11:16 : Filtatron suggesting waters

10:50-11:00 : Little Phatty suggesting drops

11:08-11:15 : Natural sounds of water

11:22-11:40 : Recording of bees

11:40-12:27 : Virus TI sounds

12:213:14 : recording of deer cry

12:45-13:27 : Virus TI sounds

13:27-15:10 : Night recording of insects in a meadow

13:42-14:10 and 14:23-15:32 : Virus TI sounds

15:14-15:32 : Owl calls

11:19-16:00 : Voices of two female students doubled by another track of them and various synths additions (see just below), the voices of the girls being here natural

15:39-15:54 : Bulgarian voices from Voices of Passion by Eastwest

15:59-16-08 : Short choir of children voices created on the Virus TI

16:09-16:18 : Bulgarian voices from Voices of Passion by Eastwest

16:18-16:57 : Solo voices of two female students in several tracks, each one transformed by different tools of the GRM Tools, and after 16:57, they go on until 18:05 with other instruments or alone (see just below)

16:517:00 : Bulgarian voices from Voices of Passion by Eastwest

17:01-17:16 : Solo voices of two female students in several tracks each, one transformed by different tools of the GRM Tools

17:16-17:38 : Voices of Passion by Eastwest

17:38-18:05 : Solo voices of two female students in several tracks each, one transformed by different tools of the GRM Tools

17:06-18:11 : Voices of Passion by Eastwest

18:12-18:21 : Last chord on Virus TI"