[This post will stay at the top until February 13, 2009. Scroll down for other stuff]

UPDATE (Feb 11):

Radio producer Sarah Elzas has produced a piece for Network Europe about the Saxophones en fête festival, featuring an interview with me

On February 13, Omie Speaks will be premiered, along with other works for classical saxophone and electronic means. It’s a very varied concert: my classmates Pierre Berndt and Marie Reynauld will sing some popier stuff - Pierre has an epic rock tune and Marie some chanson francaise, but there’s also a bunch of “contemporary classical” music, from my piece to an In C inspired score by Jonathan Pontier, political music by Jean-Luc Degioanni, and also pieces by Jean-Yves Bernhard and Gregoire Lorieux. The performers are students of Ronan Baudry.

Omie Speaks is for saxophone quartet and quadraphonic tape. The tape part is based on the voice of my great-grandmother, as recorded by my cousin in the midlate-70’s*. She’s talking about her (our) family history, and I’ve taken three location words from the tape, disguised them, and turned them into the bed for a 10-minute sax quartet. I’m hoping to take some more of her voice and make a whole “Omie Suite” for several ensembles and tape, but that’s not for a while.

The concert will be on Friday, February 13, 2009, at l’Espace Renaudie, 30 rue Lopez et Jules Martin in Aubervilliers, at 8pm. It’s near the Fort d’Aubervilliers Metro station. Here’s a map:

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The concert is part of the 3rd edition of Saxophones en fete, a classical saxophone festival throughout the Paris region run by the incomparable Nicolas Prost.

The show costs 10 euros / 5 euros reduced

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*thanks for cousinly correction on this…