dedicated to Henri Demarquette

performed by Henri Demarquette and Sequenza 9.3., cond. Catherine Simonpietri

Plonge tes yeux dans les yeux fixes / Des Satyresses our des Nixes                            Charles Baudelaire (L'Avertisseur, Fleurs du Mal)

1st performance: 3rd of June, 2015, Philharmonie de Paris                                       

"Plonge" (eng. "Plunge") for cello and 12 voices (2015) was commissioned by Henri Demarquette and the vocal Ensemble Sequenza 9.3  for their programme "Vocello" and premiered at a special concert at the Philharmonie de Paris on the 3rd of June.
As my previous pieces were mostly written for strings (especially cello) and voices, usually in "monochrome" ensembles, I was really curious to mix, fuse these timbres together in a very homogeneous texture, revealing the "cantabile" quality of both and exploring very different colours of different ranges of the cello which may correspond to different timbres of the choir.
When I discovered "Vocello" repertoire, I got completely taken by Dido's Lament by Henry Purcell the musicians included into their programme, which is based on a continuously descending basso continuo. In terms of baroque rethorics this figure is called catabasis, a musical symbol of the descent to the underworld. Then by a pure accident my attention had been captured by a related ecxerpt from Charles Baudelaire's poetry, creating a mystic vision of sinking into a state of stasis (Plonge tes yeux dans les yeux fixes / Des Satyresses our des Nixes from L'Avertisseur, Fleurs du Mal). So my piece is an acoustic metaphor of all these inspirations together. The musical process is an extremely gradual catabasis although with a "happier end", rather bringing to an ecstatic, hypnotic state unlike the tragic Purcell's final. The musical structure of the piece could remind of a whirling vortex that is gradually getting more and more slow, wide, profound until the cellist gets drowned and melted in the sea of voices which accumulate like increasing resonances of the cello line... Through this slowing vortex the connection between the musical time sensation and space is also being explored: the more the acoustic space is filled in with sounds, the more their spectrum becomes wider and richer, the more the time gets slow until completely freezes. Juste Janulyte

"Plonge" for cello and 12 voices (2015)

Compositeur toulousain, Lucas Sonzogni a toujours été en contact avec le piano familial. A l’âge de dix ans, il choisit le saxophone. Un saxophone, ça brille, c’est joli. Et puis, il veut jouer La Panthère Rose…

Après un bref passage au collège musical de Marciac, il s’oriente d’abord vers des études scientifiques, mais décide de se lancer dans le spectacle vivant. Aux côtés de la compagnie du Théâtre Réel dirigée par Luc Montech, Lucas est tour à tour comédien, assistant metteur en scène, speaker, backliner, sonorisateur, régisseur son ou plateau, saxophoniste, pianiste ou compositeur. Après trois années dans ce monde artistique, il reprend ses études : bel et bien dans la musique cette fois.

Il intègre donc un cursus de Musicologie à l’Université Toulouse II Jean Jaurès, et le Conservatoire de Toulouse dans la classe de Composition Electro-acoustique de Bertrand Dubedout. Avec une licence de musicologie, le prix Sacem en 2010, et un prix de composition, il poursuit ses études au Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Lyon où il obtient son diplôme de 2° cycle supérieur de composition option électro-acoustique, sous la bienveillance de Robert Pascal, Michele Tadini et François Roux.

Désireux de « mettre les mains dans le cambouis », il rentre en région toulousaine et devient enseignant. Aujourd'hui professeur de musique épanoui et investi, il reprend ses activités de compositeur et participe activement à la vie culturelle toulousaine auprès de différents ensembles (Antiphona dirigé par Rolandas Muleika, Archipel dirigé par Joël Suhubiette, Les Conférences Vocales dirigé par Lætitia Toulouse, L'Ensemble Baroque de Toulouse dirigé par Michel Brun).

Mathias D. Clain / Sound Sculptures 
Belgium

Soul and raw! 
Much inspired by early Robert Hood & Jeff Mills 

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The works of Justė Janulytė claim to build a "monochrome music" collection: they explore time-space perception through large-scale multilayered textures and extremely gradual metamorphoses. Justė Janulytė's catalogue, balancing between the aesthetics of minimalism, spectralism and acoustic electronica, has become one of the most fascinating focal points in the contemporary musical world. (Universal Music Publishing Classical) 

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