Cornelia Geiser double bill + PARTIAL WAVE CHILD

We will start the evening with ‘Above Fire Below the Lake’ - an improvised electroacoustic performance for augmented flute by Partial Wave Child. Jockel Liess and Geoixos use a purpose-built software environment to extend the flute's capabilities, creating a seamless tapestry of live-processed, manipulated, and sampled sounds.

The performance explores a wide range of flute techniques, from breath tones to high pitch partials, blending them with live sampled electronic textures. Guided by a score outlining 12 modal areas, this piece is an indeterminate journey through a dynamic musical terrain, weaving rhythms and tonalities fluidly into an ever-evolving soundscape. Take a moment to exist alongside this piece of performance art that fuses musical concepts in seeming opposition, transforming the space into one of unpredictable beauty and tension.

After a short break, we will premiere two films by Cornelia Geiser. A cine-poem from her homeland and her monumental staging of Medea (1635) by Pierre Corneille:

In my veins flowed suddenly a blood of ice
(Dans mes veines coulait soudain sang de glace, 2020, 20 min)

“Between 2017 and 2020, I filmed the landscape of my childhood, the shores of a lake in Upper Bavaria that had been the centre of our existence throughout the year. It was the place where we met with characters from fairy tales and comic strips, but also with aliens on reconnaissance missions. Today, as a result of climate change and the gentrification of the village, this landscape is disappearing.”

Ah! that thou hast eyes to read into my soul
(Des yeux à lire dans mon âme, 2011, 38 min)

“La dalle Beaugrenelle is a Paris district built in the 1970s near the Eiffel Tower on the Left Bank of the Seine. Its layout is inspired by the Greek city built around a large agora, and many of its architectural features are reminiscent of ancient buildings. Today, this district is inhabited by people from other continents. As I walked through it, I often thought of the story of Medea, which resonates with all its violence in Corneille's verses. Perhaps it was the story of some of the women who crossed my path there.”

ABOUT

Cornelia Geiser was born in Germany; she lives and works in Paris as an actress, theatre director and film-maker. Geiser writes: “Meeting Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet was decisive for my film work. Watching Danièle and Jean-Marie edit, I came to understand the principles of editing based on the contrast created by the transition from one shot to another, on respect for the intrinsic duration of a shot and the concept of what she called ‘Schnitt knapp’, (‘tight editing’ to the nearest photogram). My work with Jean-Marie (on Corneille-Brecht and Dialogue d'ombres) was like studying a score. The letters of the words were like musical notes with their own duration, weight and tonality, a sentence had to find its own tempo, a line had to contrast with the one before or after it.”

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