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BOUGE-TREMBLÉ is a summit meeting orchestrated by conductor and artistic director of the Op.Cit ensemble, Guillaume Bourgogne, with the mixed universe of composer, pianist and improviser Eve Risser. Eve Risser, a leading figure on the new French and European improvised music scene. Both navigating between jazz and written music, both contemporary and classical, they have joined forces to create a work that is particularly interested in timbre and space.
Eve Risser's piece, a creation for prepared upright piano and 8 instruments, was co-commissioned by Grame, Lyon's Centre National de Création Musicale, and Paysages Humains, and premiered on March 21, 2022 in Lyon as part of the BIME Biennial.
"I always start writing from my piano solo when writing for a large ensemble. Indeed, "Des pas sur la neige" inspired me with timbres, pitches and intensities, resulting in the White Desert Orchestra. Then, in my latest solo, "Après un rêve", I restored the place of rhythm and pulsation, which I had left more to one side during my solo "timbral meditations". This gave rise to the Red Desert Orchestra, which draws its inspiration from West African music, with musicians such as Nainy Diabate (Mali) and Les sœurs Hié and Oumarou Bambara (France/Burkina).
To move from the piano to the ensemble, I create singular materials that all fit together and present themselves in the form of a puzzle that gives rise to possible collective arrangements. The world of dreams and emotions remains the playground from which I draw all my musical intentions. Then it's upstream meetings with the musicians that the writing takes shape. Indeed, I always proceed in situ when writing for groups that are not my own." Eve Risser
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Eve Risser is a flutist, pianist and composer. She was a member of Daniel Yvinec's Orchestre National de Jazz from 2008 to 2013.
A founding member of the Franco-German-Swedish collective and label Umlaut, she is involved in a variety of groups ranging from small to large, such as White Desert Orchestra, a tentet that brings together the cream of the Parisian creative scene and a Norwegian.
In December 2018, she founded the Red Desert Orchestra, an ensemble made up of nine European musicians, with "Kogoba Basigui" on one side, which is the meeting of seven Malian musicians living in Bamako (Kaladjula Band), and "Eurythmia" on the other, which brings together the Red Desert Orchestra and three traditional Burkinabe percussionists.
For the past ten years, she has been carving out a personal musical language with the piano, using its keys as well as its innards, which she prepares with various materials for percussive purposes. She has released two albums Des pas sur la neige (timbral meditation on extended grand piano, Clean Feed label, 2015), Après un rêve (rhythmic trance on prepared upright piano, Clean Feed, 2019).
Guillaume Bourgogne is a conductor and artistic and musical director.
He was the founder and artistic director of the Op.Cit ensemble, whose atypical artistic line brings together composed music and improvisation.
Since September 2022, he has been professor at the Haute école de musique Vaud Valais Fribourg (HEMU) in Lausanne, and artistic and musical director of the HEMU's Ensemble contemporain.
He is musical director of the Ensemble Cairn (Paris), alongside composer Jérôme Combier, with whom he has recorded a number of critically acclaimed CDs: Jérôme Combier's Pays de vent (Motus) and Vies silencieuses (æon), Thierry Blondeau's Lieu & Non-Lieux (æon) and Raphaël Cendo's Furia (æon).
Ensemble Op.Cit
Op.Cit, Orchestre pour la Cité, is a protean ensemble that ventures onto fertile ground at the crossroads of traditional classical repertoire and improvised music.
Its musicians are grouped around two centers of gravity: the string quartet, and a trio formed by piano, double bass and drums.
With : Pierre Horksman, clarinets - Clélia Bobichon, clarinets - Jean-Philippe Cochenet, horn - Eric Le Chartier, trombone - Gaël Rassaert, violin - Nicolas Cerveau, cello - Brice Berred, double bass - Guilhem Meier, drums - Eve Risser, upright piano - Guillaume Bourgogne, direction.
