Fabrique Nomade
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All of the intimacy of traditional chamber music with a modern sensibility and leading edge technology:
Ensemble Fabrique Nomade
Recently featured on the French National Radio’s Tapage Nocturne, the acclaimed Ensemble Fabrique Nomade is comprised of violin, cello, and the state-of-the-art digital instrument Karlax*.
Combining the traditional instruments with the new, Fabrique Nomade expands the expressive possibilities and celebrates the fluid “live interplay” now possible between performers and digital sound possibilities.
The result? Listeners forget the technology and fully enter the remarkable aesthetic universes of composers such as this season’s repertoire of new works by Michele Tadini, Francis Faber, Lorenzo Bianchi, and Tom Mays.
Known for their uncanny ability to mix digital and acoustic sounds, their dazzling virtuosity, and intense expressivity, Fabrique Nomade in performance has been described as the “splendor of electronic music in the flesh.”
The group’s festival appearances and residences include the cutting-edge CitySonic Festival in Le Mans, Belgium; The National Conservatory in Dieppe; and the Blanc-Mesnil Forum in Paris. Through their commissioning, Fabrique Nomade is opening new avenues for artistic expression for the most exciting young composers in Europe.
Using their laptops and foot pedal looping, performers in the Fabrique Nomade ensemble control and manipulate all of their sound productions to perform improvised and composed concerts with all of the fluidity and nuance of the chamber music canon. Arranged onstage in a semi circle of instruments and streamlined circuitry, each performer controls her own “virtual double” through her laptop, multiplying the possibilities to create new sound worlds.
Programming for 2013-14 includes four newly commissioned works:
Le patch bien tempéré – Tom Mays (10 minutes)
Flute and Karlax Commissioned by La Grande Fabrique
Fogg – Lorenzo Bianchi (15 minutes)
Violin, cello, karkax and electronics Commissioned by INA/GRM
Frottement, Bourdon, Craquement – Francis Faber (14 minutes)
Cello, karlax and electronics Commissioned by La Grande Fabrique
Ripples never come back – Michele Tadini (15 minutes)
Violin, cello, karlax and electronics Commissioned by Studio Art Zoyd and La Grande Fabrique
* This innovative midi instrument offers a gestural range that’s incomparably rich, varied, expressive, intuitive and playful.
Ensemble members:
Etienne Graindorge – sound engineer
Sound engineer, programmer, and producer Etienne Graindorge is fascinated by the creative possibilities of sound and science, art and technology. He designed the video and sound production for "A couple of times" by Fabrizio Rat and Myriam El Haik, selected for the Councours Innovatoire 2009. Etienne has also collaborated and designed interactive digital performances for Compagnie Artefact, Quatuor Thymos, and the Compagnie Saporta.
Martina Rodriguez - cello
Hailing from Montevideo, cellist Martina Rodriguez performs regularly as a soloist and as a member of the Nomos Ensemble, whose recordings have been awarded the Apergis prix Charles Cros and 5 Stars in the Monde de la Musique. She also improvises and performs with the Sound Painting Anytia group, the Kaminia trio (tango and classical), and is an original cast member in the critically acclaimed puppet theatre Cie les Anges aux Plafond.
Szuhwa Wu – violin
Noted for the “lightness, grace, and purity” (New York Times) and the “stimulating tension” (Neue Zuercher Zeitung) of her performances, violinist Szuhwa Wu creates vibrant, multi-faceted sound worlds, holding her audience in rapt attention. Ms. Wu’s performance credits range from New York’s Lincoln Center and Miller Theatre, to the Zurich Tonhalle, the Salzburg Mozarteum, and the National Theater of Taipei. She has also designed performances for the Centre Pompidou and the Musée de la vie romantique in Paris, and the “19” Center for Contemporary Arts in Montbéliard.
Francis Faber – karlax
Inventor, composer, performer and teacher Francis Faber leads La Grande Fabrique multimedia studio, a collective that explores the boundaries between music and new digital tools such as the Meta Instruments, Wiimote, and Karlax. In all his work, Faber focuses on live multimedia interplay, developing performances and creative experiences for young audiences and concert series, as well as interactive multimedia installations in unconventional performance spaces.