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Points Sans Surface

Album FR 2019 on Circum-Disc label
Classical (Contemporary)

Points sans surface is a composition by Jean-Luc Guionnet for the Un Ensemble, a large ensemble created in 2012 under the direction of David Chiesa. The piece includes a sound system for 25 musicians and 8 speakers. It is also a visual experience generated by light. The general device consists of an acoustic and electroacoustic spatialization of sound. The audience is surrounded by musicians and speakers. Each instrumentalist is picked up by a microphone connected to a mixing console offering the possibility of amplifying these sources and broadcasting them again, according to the needs of the room. The sound then takes on a three-dimensional dimension: an acoustic distance (musicians), a proximity (loudspeakers), a verticality (musicians and loudspeakers are placed at different heights). Jean-Luc Guionnet indicates partition positions, and sometimes shouts them out. The musicians throw diagonals, correspondences, throws towards the walls, the floor, the ceiling. Sometimes, we perceive blocks or, on the other hand, lost solos. Beyond the autonomies of play, timbres and tempo, an indescribable feeling of sound invasion of the air settles in, disappears, returns, we hear like an orchestra that would scrap with another, elsewhere.

Musicians

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	Claude Saubole acg, acoustic guitar
	Christophe Ratier bcl, bass clarinet
	Juliette Lacroix vc, cello
	Benjamin Bondonneau cl, perc, clarinet
	Jean-Luc Guionnet as, org, *1966 FR composed by, alto saxophone, edited by, mixed by
	Bruno Laurent cb, double bass
	Jean Rougier cb, b, double bass
	Julia Robin , double bass
	Eric Camara b, key, double bass, viola da gamba
	Johann Mazé dr, FR drums
	Frédéric Roumagne eg, p, electric guitar
	Ian Saboya , electric guitar
	David Chiesa cb, FR electric piano
	Julia-Hanadi Al Abed electronics
	Johann Loiseau fl, perc, flute, percussion, theremin
	Stéphane Torre-Trueba har, voc, harmonium, voice
	Christophe Cardoen , lighting
	Mathias Pontévia dr, perc, FR percussion
	Thomas Lachaize sax, saxophone
	Didier Lasserre dr, FR snare, cymbal
	Loïc Lachaize sounds, edited by, mixed by
	Tanguy Bernard ssph, tu, sousaphone
	Guillaume Laidan synthesizer
	Jean Marc Reilla syn, synthesizer, electronics
	Patrick Charbonnier tb, trombone
	Paolo Chatet trumpet
	Julien Sellam vn, violin
	Delphine Lafon voc, voice
	Laurie Batista voc, voice

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