ARSENAL RESIDENCE
2016
2016
The opportunity to repeat several great pieces of his repertoire, to initiate ambitious projects, to experiment with new forms with his ensemble Mezwej, to combine the tempi of the composer and the visual artist … Around the question of the sacred and the modernity haunts the Arab creator.
To put an end to Orientalism while finding a path towards a demanding contemporaneity which would not deny anything of the past and would find a new spiritual impulse in resonance with very old energies. This research in the heart of Lorraine will stress the rich cultural and artistic fabric of the greater region.
The reception of artists in residence is at the heart of the project of Arsenal-Metz in Scenes. Forging links with composers living in and outside our region is a way of supporting creation, questioning our relationship to art and shaking it up a priori.
The artist, the composer is part of a political, economic and social reality while being in an artistic and aesthetic research.
Fostering dialogue and exchange with the public is also one of our missions and the artists are there to animate them. Residences are also the moment when an artist, a composer, can give himself the time to experiment, to look for new ways of working.
The reception of a composer is based on solid partnerships with the National Orchestra of Lorraine, the Cefedem, the Regional Conservatory of Metz, the Esal and a rich and active associative fabric. The residency allows the composer to present several works from his catalog, to create new ones and to share his research with students and amateur musicians.
Zad Moultaka is one of those singular composers who open up a different field in today’s music. All his work aims to seek a synthesis between the Arab musical tradition and modern Western writing. If he tends towards a certain abstraction, his language draws on poetry, sound research and emotion. He wonders what could be a contemporary Arab music. The relationship to music is complex in the Arab world and Zad Moultaka works to bring these two worlds together.
Artist, painter, composer and great lover of poetry, Zad Moultaka is a man of his time, marked by the years of violence in Lebanon and his exile in Paris. Faced with this fragmentation of time and space, he responds with music imbued with spirituality.
MICHÈLE PARADON,
Artistic delegate of Arsenal
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SEASON BROCHURE 2018-2019
2017-2018 SEASON BROCHURE
PREMIERE AND REPRISES
November 29, 2016 Artificiale
February 28, 2017 Lamentazioni (creation)
4-23 april 2017 exhibition Astres fruitiers
April 7, 2017 Noujoum
May 10, 2017 UM
October 5, 2017 Combattimento II
April 5, 2018 The Passion according to Mary
May 17, 2018 Myths and heroes of the ancient Orient
June 14 and 15, 2018 Sinfonietta IX with the ONL
June 19, 2018 Arabic rhymes and other coins
PRESS RELEASE CULTURAL ACTIONS 19/06/2018
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CULTURAL ACTIONS
LAUNCH OF SEASON, June 2016
PRESS RELEASE 2016-2017 season
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