Sonus ex machina

In the 1980s, during research carried out at IRCAM in collaboration with the scientist Miller Puckette, Manoury imagined the concept of "virtual scores", i.e., the detection and monitoring of the performer's playing by the machine, in order to be able to integrate certain data from the performance into the composition. A revolution for computer composition, for composition as such, carried out with the complicity of the soloists of the Ensemble intercontemporain. Sonus ex machina is also the story of successive interpretations and the constantly evolving state of technology. Forty years after its creation, Sonus retains the exciting feeling of a "first time".

Solistes de l’Ensemble intercontemporain
Gilles Durot, Aurélien Gignoux, Samuel Favre: percussion
Sophie Cherrier: flute
Dimitri Vassilakis: piano
Étienne Démoulin, Serge Lemouton: IRCAM electronics

Philippe Manoury, Jupiter ; Pluton ; Neptune

Coproduction: IRCAM-Centre Pompidou, Philharmonie de Paris, Ensemble intercontemporain.