Burn (Musica Vitae)

This track was initially inspired by the tranquillity of the sea on a summer night but the horrors throughout the world do not rest. Beware and be cautious because the First Wave will come On The First Monday Of The Month.

This is my first track utilising the Moog Mother-32. I used it for everything but the choirs, kick and sea samples. 

The Photograph of the Baltic sea is of course taken by Hannes Häfele

The First Wave On The First Monday Of The Month

Performance
Saturday, September 10th, 2016

ISSUE Project Room
22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn

Leila Bordreuil opens her 2016 Residency with the premiere of Piece for Cello and Double Bass Ensemble at ISSUE’s 22 Boerum Theater. A new work, the piece overly amplifies all instruments in order to make corporal micro-gestures and hushed overtones audible to the human ear. Pitches and melodies are rare, as the basic sonic capabilities of the instruments dictate the musicality and structure of the piece.

The piece features Brandon Lopez, Sean Ali, and Zachary Rowden on double bass. The premiere is followed by a second improvisational set featuring Leila Bordreuil, Joanna Mattrey (viola) and Sean Ali (bass).

Leila Bordreuil is a Brooklyn-based cellist and composer from France. Her cello playing is often improvised, and focuses on the relationship between the human body and the inherent sonic qualities of her instrument. Essential to her musical aesthetic is the expression of humans’ neuro-somatic imperfections, which she chooses to magnify through extreme amplification of very quiet playing, revealing microscopic gestures that are otherwise inaudible to the human ear. Her composed works draw from a similar aesthetic but also focus on sound through space and the distortion that arises from spatially organized sound sources. Leila’s collaborative projects include duos with Michael Foster and Tamio Shiraishi, a trio with Sean Ali and Joanna Mattrey, and the no-wave band “Signal Break” with Austin Jullian (Sediment Club) and Evin Huguenin (Sects). She has performed at the Whitney Museum, The Kitchen, The Stone, MoMA PS1, Roulette, the Performa Biennale, Ftarri (Tokyo, JP), the Heresy Series for Women in Sound (Manila, PHL), and many basements across the U.S.

Established in 2006, ISSUE's annual Artist-in-Residence program provides emerging artists each with a year-long residency in 2016, offering access to rehearsal space and facilities, equipment, documentation, pr/marketing, curatorial and technical expertise to create new works, reach the next stage in their artistic development, and gain exposure to a broad public audience.

Leila Bordreuil: Piece for Cello and Double Bass Ensemble - Live at ISSUE / September 10th, 2016

Performance
Friday, December 16th, 2016

ISSUE Project Room
22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn

Leila Bordreuil continues her ISSUE residency Friday, December 16th with an evening of spatialized music in solo and large ensemble formats. The evening opens with Bordreuil performing a solo amplified cello set using a multichannel set-up of different types of speakers and guitar amplifiers. An assemblage of microphones placed on various parts of the cello create unique sound distortion possibilities that transform the cello into a polyphonic instrument -- enhancing the instrument’s diversity of timbres.

Following, Bordreuil premieres “Memory City,” a new piece for large ensemble combining elements of standard notation, structured improvisation, chance composition, and a three dimensional narrative through sound-spatialization. Sound content is based upon each player’s personal sonic memories of urban environments, creating an immersive soundscape of abstracted personal experiences.The performance features Nate Wooley (trumpet), Anne Guthrie (French horn), Chris McIntyre (trombone), Michael Foster (saxophone), Ben Bennet (percussion) and Leila Bordreuil (cello).

Leila Bordreuil is a Brooklyn-based cellist and composer from France. Her cello playing is often improvised, and focuses on the relationship between the human body and the inherent sonic qualities of her instrument. Essential to her musical aesthetic is the expression of humans’ neuro-somatic imperfections, which she chooses to magnify through extreme amplification of very quiet playing, revealing microscopic gestures that are otherwise inaudible to the human ear. Her composed works draw from a similar aesthetic but also focus on sound through space and the distortion that arises from spatially organized sound sources. Leila’s collaborative projects include duos with Michael Foster and Tamio Shiraishi, a trio with Sean Ali and Joanna Mattrey, and the no-wave band “Signal Break” with Austin Jullian (Sediment Club) and Evin Huguenin (Sects). She has performed at the Whitney Museum, The Kitchen, The Stone, MoMA PS1, Roulette, the Performa Biennale, Ftarri (Tokyo, JP), the Heresy Series for Women in Sound (Manila, PHL), and many basements across the U.S.

Leila Bordreuil: Memory City - LIVE at ISSUE / December 16th, 2016

Like a blast of wind, lost in some forgotten place, Headflush is filled to the brim with emptiness. Recorded in a single afternoon in Brooklyn, New York Leila Bordreuil’s debut album, a collection of unprocessed amplified cello works, explore the limits of tonal perception. The hushed stereophonics of the album could leave the listener wondering if they were perhaps listening to amplified smoke; twisting, turning, and dancing in some strange light. Adrift and strikingly original, Headflush is the sound of the artist hidden in sound, absent in a bleak bliss.  

Leila Bordreuil is a Brooklyn-based cellist, composer, and sound-artist from France. She accesses concepts as diverse as jazz, contemporary classical, noise, and experimental traditions but adheres to her own vision of sound. The New York Times has described her work as “steadily scathing music, favoring long and corrosive atonalities”. Driven by a fierce interest in pure sound and inherent texture, Bordreuil challenges conventional cello practice through extreme extended techniques and amplification methods. Her composed works frequently incorporate sound-spatialization by way of site-specific pieces and multichannel installations.

Available on LP - 6/28/19 - Limited Edition Vinyl of 250

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