16th June 2023

"Lieu de le Dire"

Jean-Luc Guionnet-composition

Cyprien Bussolin-viola

6pm (duration 2 to 3 hours)

Free/Donations

vorbereitungen

Lindenstrasse 91, 10969

We are in the big building in front of the Jewish Museum.

On the east side of the building facing the museum, is a bicycle shop called ROSE Bikes. If you are standing in front of it, go to your right (north), and you will find a Korean restaurant called NaNum, continue on the alley; we are on the 7th studio to your left.

In 2015 or 16, Cyprien Bussolini asked me to compose a piece for him. Cyprien is playing viola, and we met when in 2013 I composed another piece - "Distances Ouies Dites" (Hearsay Distances) - for the Dedalus ensemble in which he is playing.

I proposed several directions to him, he chose that one: imagining that some months ago, I listened to a concert and that the concert was a viola solo one, I try to describe what happened as precisely as possible through a text that I write in French.

I did it. And it is something like a novel.

There are 14th cycles, and each of them has 7 parts.

The idea is that he finally plays the concert that I imagined.

A second thing he asked me to do is: I'd like the piece to be long…

The title of the piece is "Lieu de le Dire", and the duration in between 2 and 3 hours…

"Lieu de le Dire" is a strange title: it suggests some other way of saying it, like "Au Lieu de le Dire" or "Le Lieu du Dire" or …

"Au Lieu de le Dire" would be something like "Instead of saying it".

"Le Lieu du Dire" would be something like "The place of the saying".

It seems that stead means place... a possible solution would be "Stead of the saying".

Anyway: instead of saying it again, Cyprien will transform the writing, the saying, the words into the concert that will happen, and that's all it is about.

Jean-Luc Guionnet

Cyprien Busolini bio:

Starting his musical studies on the viola with classical repertoire, Cyprien

Busolini moved on towards a new music territory after the Conservatory, as he

dedicated himself to contemporary music and improvisation since then.

As an improviser, he searches for new directions in his own music playing. He

mostly focuses on sound, spaces and silences, and directions that he also explores

now in his own solo compositions. He is currently a member of Dedalus ensemble and Onceim.

Jean-Luc Guionnet bio:

Jean-Luc Guionnet studied philosophy of art and visual arts at the Sorbonne (Paris 1). He then got committed to music and sound art through sound installations ("reflected waves" or "Stones, Air, Axioms : Fèn te ko ro, nka kow bè ro kolo ntè"), electroacoustic compositions and tape music ("non organic bias", "tournures cessent"), instrumental pieces ("distances ouïes dites") and musical improvisations (organ solos, sax solos, "hubbub", "ames room"). He also did several programs for the French national radio (France Culture - ACR) about sound and listening. These works are published on many musical labels worldwide (ground fault, Potlatch, hibari, Ftarri, Empty Editions, Thin Wrist ...). Along with this sonic activity, he develops a theoretical work through a series of texts about metaphysics, sound and art that he uses to give lectures in French and English (Transmedial, Glasgow University, EHESS, etc.).