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Martin Matalon : Meeting the « other »
Free, on reservation
As part of the Festival Academy, Fête de la Musique 2024 and Parliament of Angels.
Composer Martin Matalon and the BL!NDMAN [drums] collective offer six young composers a ciné-concert workshop, to create original scores for comic silent films. Out of the Inkwell, an essential surrealist and burlesque series from 1920s silent cinema, pushes the boundaries between reality and the screen, featuring Koko the clown who comes to life and escapes his creator. In The Cook Buster Keaton as a wacky daredevil waiter juggles with the cook, Roscoe Arbuckle playing Fatty, a recurring character at the Comique Film Corporation.
BL!NDMAN [drums] : Yves Goemaere, Hannes Nieuwlaet, Ward De Ketelaere, Gideon Van Canneyt
Martin Matalon artistic director
Eric Sleichim BL!NDMAN artistic director
Serge Lemouton, João Svidzinski IRCAM educational advisor
Creations by student composers Anne Castex, Krõõt-Kärt Kaev, Natalia Laguens, Ji young Lee, Mario Moya Sánchez, Ján Števuliak, to the film The Cook by Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle featuring Buster Keaton and the short films Bubbles, Invisible Ink and Trip to Mars from the Out of the Inkwell series by Max Fleischer
Special thanks to FPA CLASSICS – (Lobster Films Collection)
Special thanks to Serge Bromberg.
Production IRCAM-Centre Pompidou in collaboration with BL!NDMAN. With the support of Maison de la Musique Contemporaine, Sacem and the ULYSSES network supported by the European Union’s Creative Europe program. IRCAM and the CENTQUATRE-PARIS are partners for experimental performance projects.