A Journey of Artistic Discovery Across Europe
ULYSSES CO-COMMISSION: ANNE CASTEX
Organised by IRCAM, Divertimento Ensemble, Mixtur, Gaudeamus, Italy - France - Netherlands - Germany
Anne Castex’s Vif-creux is a new 10' work for ensemble and electronics, co-commissioned by Ircam-Centre Pompidou, Gaudeamus Festival, and IEMA (International Ensemble Modern Academy). After performances by the Ulysses Ensemble and stops in June 2026 in Milan and Paris, the IEMA-Ensemble 2025/26 will present it in Utrecht and Frankfurt. The fifth performance will be in Barcelona, again by the Ulysses Ensemble.
Vif-creux ou l’empreinte figée d’un mouvement.
Ce qui reste après avoir été.
Dans cette pièce, notre intérêt se porte moins sur le geste qu’à ce qu’il laisse derrière lui. Un frottement, une impulsion, qui après leur passage ouvrent un espace ou inscrivent un sillage dans la matière. Absence du mouvement qui a déjà existé. Présence du mouvement dans ce qu’il laisse derrière lui.
- Anne Castex
Translation: Vif-creux, or the frozen imprint of a movement. What remains after having been. In this piece, our focus is less on the gesture itself than on what it leaves behind. A friction, an impulse—which, after passing through, open up a space or leave a trail in the material. The absence of movement that once existed. The presence of movement in what it leaves behind.
Anne Castex is a composer of instrumental, electroacoustic, and mixed music. She develops a language attuned to social realities, drawing on personal experience and everyday life to nourish her musical thinking.
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