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Monday, 23 April 2007

inspiratoire/aspiratoire

Posted by jean-baptiste veyret-logerias / association la dépose at 17:17

The first idea that made this project appear was to sing on industrial sounds : sounds of motors, steam engines, office ventilators... I wanted to mix my voice with those everyday noises. I then chose to research with vacuum cleaners, but vacuum cleaners which could also blow, as a mechanical double to my own breathing. That’s where I started working more specifically on a relationship between my breathing in / out and the sucking up / blowing of the vacuum cleaners. This movement of breathing became the raw material that I had to transform, to manipulate, to make derive, to color by relating it to voice, text, dance.

That’s the point of inspiratoire/aspiratoire : crossing my inspiration / expiration with the artificial breathing of machines, until we reach – maybe – to a musical dimension.

conception and interpretation Jean-Baptiste Veyret-Logerias
sound Cristián Sotomayor
eyes on the work Anne Lenglet, Margot Videcoq
with the support of micadanses - Paris, la malterie - Lille, and Nilfisk manufacturer of professional cleaning equipment
acknowledgements cndc centre national de danse contemporaine Angers, Le Plateau / FRAC Ile-de-France, Centre national de la danse - Pantin

a work in progress was presented on April 2007, 19th at la malterie in Lille (FR) ; another experimentation of the materials happened on September 2007, 26th and 27th at the festival Le Volapük / Théâtre à cru in Tours (FR).

(c) Elise Jouvancy

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"The area of the sound is beyond the image, the radical, the first birth". The living meaning appears in a sonorous energy which acts before metaphor and before concept - and creates, from "non-figurative" roots, primitive sense. Something of a "logical anteriority to the arousing of the signified", the structuralist shrink might say. Something, says Bely, that happens "in the mouth, obscure part of the head".(...)
We have lost what was before metaphor, before concept, before predicating, before the agglutination signifier/signified. We have lost the thing itself, "underlying, obscure and silent". We have lost the meaning of the "gestures of the sounds" ; these dynamics (Bely always speaks of "flow", "speed", "movements", "fluid lines", "vibrations") generate simultaneaously, by fission, schizogenesis, differentials progressively drawn, the living diversity of the actual and of the differentiation of the words and the languages.

Christian Prigent, in "L'halluciné logogonique", 2002, NOUS,
preface to Andrei Bely, Glossolalia, 1917
translated by myself... might be some mistakes...

biography

Beside his studies in linguistics, Jean-Baptiste Veyret-Logerias practiced dance and discovered production management at the Centre chorégraphique national de Tours under artistic director Daniel Larrieu. Thereafter he worked as production manager for several dance companies and continued his dancing.

He selectively participated as a performer in works such as Robyn Orlin's Daddy, I've seen this piece… in 2001, Superamas's Digging up in 2002, and performed a collective piece, Performance rouge, in 2002. He also danced pieces by Laure Bonicel (Dressing in 2002), Roser Montlló-Guberna and Brigitte Seth (El Baile 2003, Revue et corrigée 2004, Récitatifs toxiques 2007).

Since 2000 he has been a member of the vocal ensemble Les Djinns, conducted by Brigitte Cousin, where he is both a singer and choir leader. In 2003, he was part of the vocal ensemble conducted by Pierre Calmelet which won the silver medal at the national competition of the Florilège Vocal de Tours International Choral Competition.

In 2005 he became one of the first students of the new ‘Essais’ programme at the Centre national de danse contemporaine in Angers (artistic director Emmanuelle Huynh) where he was invited to develop his own ideas on movement and staging. Here he danced in Idiotisme by Danya Hammoud, Hoplà! by Jessica Batut and My Country Music by the American choreographer Deborah Hay, of which he did a solo adaptation. He also created G.Verdi, a collective project, with three other students from the programme, and a solo piece which was the beginning of his personal research. Then he produced a project for nine people, chambre son, a choreographic and vocal piece for an a capella choir. In his work he combined skills and techniques he has encountered in dance, singing, choir conducting and theatre.

In June 2007 he directed the choreography for a short film made by FEMIS student Jonathan Desoindre.

He is now working on a project using vacuum cleaners, inspiratoire/aspiratoire, a research on breathing, and showed a work in progress at la malterie in Lille in April 2007, ending his residency there.

In August 2007 he takes part at PAF / Performing arts forum in sweet & tender collaborations, project that gathers young artists who want to share their practices and their production tools. Some fragments of experience (Fragments d'expérience) will take place in Reims on September 14 and 15.

Alexandros Markeas, Miniatures / Cécile Gilly, french radio france culture, March 2007, 22

I am always looking for alternative forms to concerts. I love concerts, and I love their rituals. I will always write pieces for string quartets facing the audience in silence - with good acoustics, this will always be magical. But I would also like to experiment with other types of interaction between musicians and the audience. The many different ways of expression through the plastic arts - performances, happenings - greatly inspire me … to come up with ways of creating a musical language using non-musical techniques. I am greatly interested by all this. To sum up, essentially, it is all about how to change the nature of a concert, how to create different ways of making the musicians and audience interact with each other.

thanks to james for his huge help in this translation

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solo adaptation of My Country Music by Deborah Hay, 30.06.06-01.07.06 at Parc de la Villette, Paris

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