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Cornet de route #1 : New York (US) —april 2019

1 May 2019Moving Sound Librarywebmaster

Cornet de route #1 : New York (US) —april 2019

La sonothèque nomade / New York 2019

30 seconds in NYC subway GRAND CENTRAL station. Crowd noise punctuated by a traffic flow manager speaking in his megaphone and the cover of a Soul music hit.

Localisation : 40°45’07.6″N 73°58’37.8″W

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Our hosts : Festival des cinq continents, April 4 to 6, 2019 / New York University
http://as.nyu.edu/frenchcenter.html

Students of ENSIP take over the work of the ENSIM’s students

1 April 2015Scientific encounterswebmaster

We had the opportunity and the pleasure to involve this year again a team of teachers-researchers and two students in the project with our instruments.

While the first works of François Gautier and his students in Le Mans were focused on the “Bridge – bascule bridge – membrane” system, Jean-Christophe Valière and his students of ENSIP were working on the transfer function of the Stroh instruments’ horns. A digital modelling has been realised to compare the theoretical principle and the measurements. The results were very similar!

This work also enables to compare the versions 1 and 2 of the “resonator – horn” system of the Stroh-bass. We could hear the result was audible to the human ears, but we have now a benchmark in anechoic chamber: the intensity level gain of the second version of the Stroh-bass is from 5 to 7 dB in the playing frequencies and a significant increase of nearly one octave in low frequency.

A big hand for Laurent Cadilhac, Robert Kieffer and Christophe Boutin for their work on this new Stroh-bass version,
and many thanks to all the PPrime Laboratory and ENSIP team members and students that took part to this project.

Sylvain Lafortune, dancer-choreographer-teacher and…

1 April 2015Artistic encounterswebmaster

Jérôme Bouvet told us about Sylvain Lafortune, this meeting was one of the first one that we imagined as part of the Stroh Project. That has now been allowed. In March, the Strohband spent two wonderful moments in the streets of Poitiers together with Sylvain Lafortune. This dancer/choreographer/teacher was invited by the CESMD (Centre for Advanced Study of Music and Dance) of Poitiers for a two-day training course about « porté » in dance. He has been developing a technique, which enable every dancer to lift or to be lifted smoothly. More details on his website.

After his workshops, Sylvain joined us for an unexpected moment with Le Chant des Pavillons. The night after was full of exchanges about the Stroh project. The idea of a possible collaboration with Sylvain started to rise in our mind…
The day after, Sylvain met us again with some members of his trainee-team that experienced with us (and our instruments) a walk in the streets of Poitiers. Occasionally, they let themselves dancing to the sound of our Stroh instruments. Many thanks to them and Sylvain for having shared these moments with us…

Well done Shaun Tan…

4 February 2015Artistic encounterswebmaster

The illustration doesn’t need any comments, we are just very proud and happy to count Shaun Tan amongst our collaborators.

All rights – Shaun Tan/La Fausse Compagnie

If you want to receive this musical postcard-45 rpm record, send us a message via the contact page…

Video of the Stroh project-Ogier #5, concert of the 2nd October 2014

12 November 2014Artistic encounterswebmaster

Here is a video of this somewhat experimental meeting of artists.

Wishing it luck for the future!

Video : Stroh Project – LAUM #6 at the “Expressifs” Festival in Poitiers

12 November 2014Scientific encounterswebmaster

Here is a look at this installation/meeting/performance about the story of sound recording.

It gives you an idea of how we want to share this Stroh Project with multiple dimension with the public (here with the public of the media library of Poitiers and of the “Expressifs” Festival)

Visit of the Charles Cros Collection of the B.N.F. (French National Library)

26 September 2014Scientific encounterswebmaster

It was with obvious emotion that we discovered the Charles Cros collection. This collection is focused on sound recording and its first range of machines.

As soon as you enter the collection’s exposition room (17^th floor of one of the 4 big tours of the BNF), you are welcomed by numerous horns of many different sizes, shapes and colours. And guess what was placed in the middle, in a display cabinet: a Horn-violin!

We asked Xavier Loyant, curator of the collection, about the probability that this violin is a Stroh-violin or a Tiebel-violin (same type of instrument of the same period).
He explained that after our request for a visit, he carried out some research and noticed that the BNF owns many instruments of this type: another Stroh-violin – which looks like the Stroh instruments of the Musée de la Musique – and a phono-fiddle which certainly predated the Stoh patent.

In the end, we both left the meeting totally delighted. For me because I found another place in Paris where the Stroh Project could have a particular relevance (from a scientific and historical perspective). For Xavier Loyant because he (re-)discovered a beautiful phono-fiddle!

Our talks will undoubtedly continue in the next months.

Here are some pictures taken during this meeting and the link to an article of the IRMA (Information and resource centre for contemporary music) that enabled us to discover the collection

From the Paléo Festival to Lowlands

4 September 2014Songs of the Hornwebmaster

The Paléo Festival is situated in Nyon, Switzerland, beside Lake Geneva. Lowlands is situated in the Netherlands, in a land that emerged from the water very recently…

These two festivals are similar in size, programming and public. Between 40,000 and 65,000 participants a day, almost 20 different concerts, huge stages… and a street performing arts programme for curious onlookers or people who are fed up with BIG sound.

At the Paléo, the Hive is the area dedicated to street performing arts. We met some friends and did new encounters (the Aquamens, Cie Acquacoustique, Collectif BIB, 2 rien Merci, ect.). This year, the Hive team chose to dedicate the scenography to Shaun Tan’s world (you know, the Australian illustrator we met in Australia…). With an efficient and warm team of volunteers, it was an absolute pleasure! In Lowlands, we did fascinating encounters too (for example De Stilh Want) and above all had really great quality listening, making for some unforgettable moments.

Crédits photos : Peter Venema

Concert walk Ni vu, ni connu at Music Museum

2 March 2014Eventswebmaster

The Music Museum in Paris organizes every season concert tours. It proposes to musicians to sound the instruments of its collection; visitors can hear from one room to the other usually preserved behind glass instruments. On 11 November 2012, the Museum offers to Thomas Le Saulnier and Samuel Tailliez to participate to the concert walk “Ni vu, ni connu” playing the cello–Stroh and Stroh–violin. A big thank you to them !

Recording with Milord

20 February 2014Artistic encounterswebmaster

The Strohband participated in the upcoming album of Milord. Two tracks were recorded in the studio of Freddy Boisliveau in Rochefort sur Loire: « Dériver sous la lune » and « La lune dans l’eau ».

Many thanks to Coline Linder who took the pictures and made a musical contribution to the work with her saw…

Discover this production Stroh Project-Milord on stage on 5th April 2014 in Indre (44)

Perhaps we saw you there!