Video-music creation : "The mad shepperds of the rebellion" about the beat generation, with John Greaves
Main musicians : lionel matin,
benoît keller,
rémi gaudillat, bruno
tocanne
In association with : denis
badault,
xavier garcia, john greaves, hasse poulsen, fred roudet...
Musicians collective ? Artists' network ? Variable musical company ?
imuZZic is all that !
. Collective because it collects around aesthetics
jazz and improvised musics;
. Network because it is opened
to the sharing of experiments, to the new and fertile meetings;
.
Variable because every project requires a complementarity of
talents, to maintain at its highest level the requirement of coherence and
artistic relevance
Jazz and improvised musics have an
opening equal to the spirit of freedom which this artistic field
claims, we find in the imuZZic objectives, since its creation in 1998,
the echos of this characteristi c: meetings between confirmed artists and
emergent artists, meetings between various musical styles,meetings between
different artistic disciplines (Visual arts, multimedia, poetry), human meetings
…
A fast review of the last 4 years
prove the creative vitality of the musicians of this network, the successful bet
of the curiosity and the support of the public in an artistic comment without
concession, the capacity of the collective to articulate local anchoring,
national and international brilliance.
"Since 2004, more than 40
artists participated in imuZZic projects.
6 creations were
born: "October", " the man with a moviecamera ", "Panics", " The mad Shepherds
of the rebellion ",
5 albums among which three were coproduced
by Cristal Records:
"Global Songs"; "States of emergency"; "new
dreams nOw :" the various projects were presented in France ( more than100
concerts) and abroad (Canada, Morocco, Greece, Rumania, Ukraine, Ireland,
Germany...). These most than 100 concerts took place in very diverse contexts :
small places not dedicated to concerts, clubs, theaters, international jazz
festivals... In it are added artistic residences, actions of sensitization,
interventions in schools, master-classes.."
- Manuela Gimeno -
imuZZic support the creation of
trans-disciplinary projects, cause the emergence of national and
international musical networks, seek the passages and the division of
information, explore not the borders but what there is between, work in
the relation between the european
improvised musics
and the other cultures, practise a total musical fact rather than
an unspecified form of aesthetic integrism...
musicians - groups
"five new dreams" with fred roudet and quinsin nachoff (canada)
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