L’AUTRE RIVE
60′ – 2009
for choir
L’Autre rive
Under the bombings, the child asks, “What if I was born on the other side? This question overflows and obsesses. Two twin worlds live closed to each other, drunk with hatred and violence. L’Autre Rive experiences the footprints of separation and even older fractures. The piece unfolds simultaneously in two spaces.
Creating a kind of ritual, the singers leave one after another the first place to go to the second one. They pass on the “other side” where the same coin is rolled upside down. In mirror, false mirror, since the instruments and the languages differ. The music follows the form of the text: from the bellicose energy of the group to the extreme loneliness and the disappearance of the individual. A catharsis. From exhortation to war, to sacrifice and its excesses, to the feeling of self-destruction and obliteration … or the opposite.
During the intermission, the audience changes rooms and lives again the opposite experience. The same ? In any case strangely close and disturbing.
L’Autre Rive ends the cycle of a three-year residency (2007-2009) at the Royaumont Foundation. Zad Moultaka was able to question oriental and western musical cultures, specific tensions, energy, friction between writing and orality throughout the Mezwej ensemble bringing together musicians, singers and dancers from both shores.
L’Autre Rive is the result of an exemplary co-production between the Royaumont Foundation, the vocal ensemble Musicatreize, the National Center for Scripture in the Chartreuse de Villeneuve-Lez-Avignon, and the Noirlac Abbey (Centres culturels de rencontre). with the support of the Art Moderne Artistic Development Agency.
Twice twelve movements, two parts and two spaces
Texts: Zad Moultaka
Premiere: July 8 & 10, 2009
Location: Festival d’Avignon, Chartreuse Villeneuve-lez Avignon
By: Musicatreize et l’ensemble Mezwej, direction Roland Hayrabedian
September 16, 2009 The Docks of Joliette. Cancelled
September 19, 2009 Toulon Opera by the Mezwej ensemble and the Musicatreize Ensemble, direction Roland Hayrabedian,
September 20, 2009 Chappelle du Méjan, Arles by the ensemble Mezwej and Musicatreize ensemble, direction Roland Hanyrabedian,
September 26, 2009 Royaumont Foundation, Asnieres sur Oise by the Mezwej ensemble and Musicatreize ensemble, direction Roland Hayrabedian,
November 26, 2009 Festival 38e Rugissants, MC2 Grenoble by the Mezwej ensemble and Musicatreize Ensemble, direction Roland Hayrabedian,
February 1, 2010 Les lundis de la contemporaine by Arnaud Merlin. Diffusion of L’Autre rive by Musicatreize Ensemble, direction Roland Hanyrabedian and Mezwej, recording on November 26, 2009 in Grenoble, Festival 38e Rugissants. France Music
September 26, 2010 Le Méjan Arles by l’ensemble Musicatreize, direction Roland Hayrabedian and Mezwej Ensemble
June 4, 2011 Marseille (Vieille Charité) by Musicatreize Ensemble, direction Roland Hayrabedian and Mezwej Ensemble
June 6, 2010 Théâtre de Thouars by Musicatreize Ensemble, direction Roland Hayrabedianand Mezwej Ensemble
June 19, 2010 Festival Les Traversées, Noirlac Abbey by Musicatreize Ensemble, direction Roland Hayrabedian and Mezwej Ensemble
July 21, 2011 Abbaye de Silvacane (Festival d’Aix) by l’ensemble Musicatreize, direction Roland Hayrabedian et l’ensemble Mezwej
July 6-16, 2012 L’Autre rive, extended concert – sound installation – realized by GMEA Albi – Festival Les Lumières de Sorèze
June 6, 2015 Silvacane Abbey, extended concert, Musicatreize / GMEA d’Albi
Commissioned and co-produced by Royaumont Foundation, Musicatreize, Art Moderne, Centre National des écritures du spectacle La Chartreuse de Villeneuve Lez Avignon, Abbaye de Noirlac (Centres culturels de rencontre), as part of the Mezwej residence in Royaumont
© ŠamaŠ éditions musicales 2009
