Les mercredis STMS welcome Karim Haddad, researcher in the Repmus team at Ircam (CNRS, Sorbonne University, Ministry of Culture) and Roula Safar, singer.
On the occasion of the publication of his book "L'Unité Temporelle: une approche pour l'écriture de la durée et de sa quantification" published by Éditions Hermann in the Théorie de la musique collection, Karim Haddad will present "Studie XI: Im Arm der Götter wuchs ich groß" for mezzo-soprano and tape, to be performed by Roula Safar. This will be followed by a brief analysis and presentation of his book.
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About the book:
This book proposes a new approach to the practice of writing musical time, based on a concept of notation dedicated to the writing of duration, rhythm and musical form. This new concept of temporal unity opens up a series of questions and issues along three lines: notation, operability and quantification. The aim is to develop a grammar of musical time that includes syntax, representation, a rhetorical device for rhythmic transformation, "setting in temporality" in relation to "compositional unity" and its implications in the formal domain.
This in-depth study of the structures of the "unités temporelles" is based on a series of personal works. It explores the path of the conception of a work, from its sketch to its final realisation, through a "fair"quantification that preserves the integrity of the musical discourse.
Biography
Karim Haddad
Karim Haddad is a composer and researcher. Born in Beirut in 1962, he holds six prizes and the Diplôme supérieur de composition with honours from the CNSMDP. In 2020, he was awarded a doctorate (Sorbonne University) in composition research. Alongside his work as a composer, he is in charge of research and development within the RepMus team at Ircam.
Roula Safar
Born in Lebanon, Roula Safar grew up in a literary and musical environment. She studied instrumental music, voice and musicology, first in Beirut, later in Paris.
As a singer, she has performed under the direction of D. Colemann, P. Davin, M. Foster, J.-C. Malgoire and P. Rophé. In contemporary music she created the role of the tailor’s wife in the opera GO-gol by Michaël Levinas and also premiered in Levinas’s "Les Aragon", Florence Baschet’s "Femmes et Piranhas," Betsy Jolas’s "De nuit" and Karim Haddad’s "Meditatio I & II." Roula Safar has sung in the Salle Pleyel, Théâtre du Châtelet, Cité de la musique, Ircam and the Montpellier opera house in France and in other cities in Europe, Africa and the Near East.