Residencies
The ICST regularly invites composers and artists for residencies at the Computer Music Studio. The studio hosts every year's winner of the Bourges International Competition/category "Residencies" (18 upon 25 years) as well; it offers cutting-edge technology, one-on-one assistance and contact with ICST staff. The duration of each residency is decided on a project-by-project basis and can be up to three weeks.
Current Artist in Residence:
Grégory MARTEAU (France)
Artist in Residency at the ICST from 12.July to 2010 to 31.August 2010
Prize winner of the CONCOURS INTERNATIONAUX DE BOURGES 2009 Musiques Electroacoustiques et Arts Electroniques
My composition will be a piece for Structures sonores Baschet and electroacoustic music.
I will work with the ambisonic system using differents sounds that I made in Bernard Baschet's workshop
with some of music instruments he invented : cristal Baschet and Tôle à voix in particular. My project will be several short pieces with improvisations on little structures sonores : ressort, grille et disque. There is an historical link between electroacoustic music and Structures Sonores Baschet, indeed, Pierre Schaeffer asks to Bernard Baschet to help him in order to classify complex sounds. So, we can consider that Bernard Baschet invented his own music instruments in order to make a music in the same esthetic of the concret music but without electricity. I use to record this instruments for my compositions but I also use them in my musical teaching activity with children and teenagers.
More informations about Structures Sonores Baschet : www.baschet.org