ENSEMBLE PODCAST
14 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 year ago -The continuing intensity of environmental, social, political and economic crises re-interrogate our ways of sharing and of being together. In the current health context and when it’s particularly important to bring out new stories and possible futures, Maintenant festival is launching a new online format of listening. ensemble is a one-hour podcast series that allow artists to propose something else about what they are experiencing.
With ensemble, artists takes a look at the state of the world and bears witness to the changes in our contemporary society.
Produced by Maintenant Festival, FR
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Episodes
ENSEMBLE 013 - Noémi Büchi : Le réel à l'état brut
April 24, 2023 18:15 - 59 minutes - 54.9 MBArt, directly or indirectly, is the expression of a conscious or unconscious metaphysical concern, and this is what makes it both valuable and depreciable, indispensable and superfluous. Its content is in this sense unclassifiable - whereas in today's world everything is classified, evaluated and rated. We live in paradoxical societies, of anxiety, of occult forces and at the same time of ingenuity and aesthetic brilliance. In parallel with societal movements that refuse or question classica...
ENSEMBLE 012 - Emmanuelle Parrenin : La maison intérieure
March 01, 2023 18:19 - 58 minutes - 93.3 MBThe inner home is a reflection of our inner world. It’s a repository, a sanctuary, a safe place that needs neither windows, nor walls, or doors. A place to take shelter when needing to keep one’s integrity in the midst of the injunctions of this world. It’s also a space that vibrates, that resonates, and that seeks out what knows within us. The resonance of my childhood home has left a deep impact on me, and it has always been part of me. I heard my father's string quartet rehearse tireless...
ENSEMBLE 011 - Aho Ssan : Hors temps
December 15, 2022 17:43 - 59 minutes - 101 MBTemporality takes root everywhere: in our words, our feelings, everyday objects. It is all around us when we pay attention to it. Many people think time is our enemy, because we give it too much importance. I would have preferred not to give this creation a name, but I decided to call it “Hors temps” (out of time). This mix aims to move us away from the grip of time, to feel a new mental space and to question our achievements. Music is a fundamental tool to experience different states to co...
ENSEMBLE 010 - Marina Herlop : Cuando coño se dice ole
May 17, 2022 16:10 - 59 minutes - 107 MBThe nature of our current time, amplified by social media and pop culture, has generated a concept of the artist as a winner or idol. In order to legitimize themselves, musicians are exhorted to follow ‘celebrity canons’: having a flashy image or making flashy music, being charismatic, being successful. The creative process is often seen as esoteric and associated with cryptic and vague concepts such as ‘inspiration’, ’talent’, ‘expression’ or ‘freedom’, so it seems music is created magicall...
ENSEMBLE 009 - Sofie Birch : Cycle of Metamorphosis
November 29, 2021 21:50 - 59 minutes - 110 MB“It feels like certain patterns of movement exist both on big societal scales and in the smallest everyday life. Something might break or crystalize, something might force you to adapt or inspire you to change shape, morph into something new. I have always been interested in transformation. Sometimes I got caught in the thought that I had to change myself for the better. But I found that it is not about changing, but about existing in a constantly changing flow of polarities, ups and downs....
ENSEMBLE 008 - Jiska Huizing & Rudi Valdersnes
October 03, 2021 11:29 - 59 minutes - 110 MB"Outside environments suddenly came more into focus because of Covid-19, which forced us to shift our attention to our close surroundings and even as close to us as our bodies. Because of this, there has been a renewal of appreciation for the outside environments that are available to us and hopefully, this appreciation and caring attention will be remembered while the world opens up and afterwards, and extended to more and more places. The podcast focuses on a selection of tracks that show ...
ENSEMBLE 008 - Jiska Huizing & Rudi Valdersnes : Voicing a Landscape
October 03, 2021 11:29 - 59 minutes - 110 MB"Outside environments suddenly came more into focus because of Covid-19, which forced us to shift our attention to our close surroundings and even as close to us as our bodies. Because of this, there has been a renewal of appreciation for the outside environments that are available to us and hopefully, this appreciation and caring attention will be remembered while the world opens up and afterwards, and extended to more and more places. The podcast focuses on a selection of tracks that show ...
ENSEMBLE 007 - Morita Vargas : Trovadora
September 28, 2021 08:34 - 59 minutes - 104 MB"The music of silence, nap time, what appears when there is no sound, the active listening of nature. The step between being awake and attentive when entering a deep sleep. Everything begins on earth, at the time when night begins to fall, we are alone and our only connection is the toads, the song of the toads immerse us in a dream, they are mantras that detach us from reality to undertake an adventure within ourselves. The landscapes of that dream, the islands of the states, on each island...
ENSEMBLE 006 - Simo Cell : Rave Lucide
August 24, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 137 MB"I dream a lot. Or rather, I remember a lot of my dreams, since we all dream. It is there, in me, very strong and very present since my early childhood. Nested, lucid or premonitory dreams, they are a mode of perception in their own right. Unfortunately, they are often seen as pure fabrication of the mind or a mirage. However, to dream is to set a course, to forge a vision. The dream is a power, a meaning that we can work on and develop. Beyond my personal experiences, I question the role a...
ENSEMBLE 005 - KMRU : Resonant Links
July 15, 2021 17:26 - 57 minutes - 113 MB"Within the complex sound spectre of our environments and surroundings, sounds are always immersive, proximal, and constantly pushing through our bodies. There is a temporal flux with the sounds of our habitus and daily lives which most often goes unnoticed and ignored. My practice with field recording and engagement with the environment, heightened my awareness of my surroundings and sounds that inhibit this place- learning from them and using the environment as an instrument. There is an ...
ENSEMBLE 004 - upsammy : Multi-Membrance Park
July 15, 2021 17:20 - 59 minutes - 107 MB"In this mix we find ourselves at a construction site yet inside a ruin: it is a place representing a transitional state. 5 vocal artifacts will guide you into a process of re-modeling, exploring and discovering. The music molds a new terrain ment for healing. Where we become miniature versions of ourselves. Where we are a particle, yet a star, traversing through textures. Where destruction becomes fertile, things are taken apart and examined. It is a constant dive through membranes both syn...
ENSEMBLE 003 - Rojin Sharafi : Point Shard
July 15, 2021 17:13 - 58 minutes - 107 MB"Point Shard is about different social issues that have concerned me recently, such as representation of marginalized communities in multicultural societies and white institutional space, racialized emotional labor, gender binaries and ethnocide within the music ecosystem and in musical language. For this podcast Rojin Sharafi asked some artists from her community to record their stories, thoughts and experiences related to these topics. These interviews talks about gender, sexuality, repre...
ENSEMBLE 002 - Maria Teriaeva : Shift in Perception
July 15, 2021 17:06 - 56 minutes - 103 MB"With "Shift in Perception", Maria Teriaeva shares a personal, sensitive and emotional experience of the whole world lockdown last March. In just a few weeks, she switches from her last performance in Paris to a COVID hospital, with an album release in progress and a cancelled tour. As on a TV series, she experiences in a short time, serious changes that can only affect her mood and her general state of mind. She thus invites us to take distance from all these events." ENSEMBLE, a new podca...
ENSEMBLE 001 - Crystallmess : Innerview
July 15, 2021 16:45 - 59 minutes - 108 MB"Innerview is a radio episode, designed as a collage that mixes both the interview and the musical piece. Innerview can be listened to like a generous and unfiltered sound adventure. With a mix of musical improvisation rather in an ambient / synth-based style, and less club than usual, Crystallmess offers original compositions with excerpts from her favourite interviews. American rappers like 2Pac, Damon Dash, Azealia Banks or Sister Souljah... in their most eminently political moments, radi...