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!!Changing the System (1972-73) {br}{br} {html} <iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/26617055?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" width="500" height="375" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe> <p><a href="http://vimeo.com/26617055">Changing the System, part 1: discovering the possibilities</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/andrewchesher">Andrew Chesher</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p> {/html} {small}This is the first segment of Changing the System (55 mins, 2007), a documentary by Andrew Chesher.{br}In 1973 Christian Wolff, erstwhile student of composer John Cage, wrote the score of Changing the System. It took its title from an interview with the Tom Hayden, a key figure of the 68 student movement. The idea of participatory democracy associated with student activism at that time, was implicit in the sort of indeterminate scores Wolff and other members of his musical milieu were writing. Following the preparations for a recent performance of the piece, this documentary observes the musicians and their discussions during rehearsals, contextualised by their comments on its significance and the process of playing it.{br}This first segment of the documentary introduces Wolff's composition, focusing on first encounters with the score.{/small} {br}{br} '''Accès à la partition :''' * http://www.wormsanderaare.com/Schplitzing/Changing%20the%20system.pdf |t [../files/articles/wolff/wolff_changing1.jpg|../files/articles/wolff/wolff_changing1b.jpg]{br}{br}[../files/articles/wolff/wolff_changing3.jpg|../files/articles/wolff/wolff_changing3b.jpg]|t |t [../files/articles/wolff/wolff_changing2.jpg|../files/articles/wolff/wolff_changing2b.jpg]{br}{br}[../files/articles/wolff/wolff_changing4.jpg|../files/articles/wolff/wolff_changing4b.jpg]|t |t |t |t |t |t {small}CHRISTIAN WOLFF, CHANGING THE SYSTEM, INSTRUCTIONS.{/small}| {br}{br} Christian Wolff can be considered to be one of the rare and small group of composers giving serious consideration to the inner politics of the ensembles wherefor he writes. There is no conductor, no hidden hierarchy in the ensemble. The score is not prescriptive in an authoritarian way, but rather tries to reveal the typical inner workings of ensembles performing chamber music. As many pieces from the same period, this piece tries to redefine the notion of composition from a linear series of prescriptions and recipes to a rather game like and rule based system.{br}Describing "Changing the System" Wolff wanted to represent a “focusing of concerted, persuasive but not coercive energy... a kind of revolutionary noise.” {br}{br} |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |tl ''« To turn the making of music into a collaborative and transforming activity (performer into composer into listener into composer into performer etc...), ^[from^] the co-operative character of the activity to be the exact source of the music. To stir up, through the production of the music, a sense of the political conditions in which we live and how these might be changed, in the direction of democratic socialism » ''{br}{small} (Christian Wolff, Logos Foundation, 2003, http://logosfoundation.org/kursus/Avero-prognotes.html ){/small}| |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |tl '' « Amener la fabrication de la musique à une activité collaborative et transformatrice (l'interprète devenant compositeur devenant auditeur devenant compositeur devenant interprète, etc.), et lui donner un caractère de coopération qui devient ainsi le fondement même de la musique. Il s'agit de réveiller par cette production particulière de la musique notre conscience des conditions sociales partagées et de suggérer comment celles-ci pourrait être changées dans notre vie, vers un socialisme démocratique. »''{br}{small} (Christian Wolff, Logos Foundation, 2003, http://logosfoundation.org/kursus/Avero-prognotes.html ){/small}| {br}{br} ''Que veut dire jouer ensemble ? Comment fonctionne un groupe de musiciens ? Que peut-on construire ensemble et inventer collectivement ? Quelle responsabilité prend-on, vis-à-vis de soi-même, des autres musiciens, du public ? Que veut dire être engagé quand on est un artiste ? L’art produit-il du politique ?{br}Christian Wolff utilise comme matériau des chansons de lutte, des poèmes engagés. Mais sa musique n’est pas uniquement militante, elle fait de la Politique : il s’agit pour le compositeur de « réveiller, par la production musicale, un sentiment de conditions sociales partagées et de suggérer comment celles-ci peuvent être changées »{br}La dimension politique de l’expérimentation ne réside pas dans l’engagement proprement dit des musiciens, ni même dans leurs déclarations d’intention et leurs critiques adressées à la société ou au monde de l’art. Elle se révèle davantage à travers les reconfigurations du sensible et les pratiques spécifiques à ce processus de création musicale.''.{br}{small}(Notes du programme du festival "Ici L'Onde", Why Not, Le Consortium Dijon, février 2013, http://www.ensa-dijon.fr/files/IO2013-PROGRAMME-web.pdf ){/small} {br}{br} '''Écoutes :''' '''[Écoutez un enregistrement de Changing the System lors d'un concert donné à Londres en 2004 / ''Listen to performance recording, London, 2004''|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pA0mX-FQMTQ]''' {br}{br} {html} <TABLE BORDER=0" WIDTH="100%" style="background-color:#CCCCCC;"> <TR> <TD> <small>ÉCOUTER UN INTERVIEW DE CHRISTIAN WOLFF — 9 janvier 2012 — source : <A HREF="http://www.goingthruvinyl.com/?artist=Christian%20Wolff" target="_blank">http://www.goingthruvinyl.com/</A></small><br> <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="webs/dewplayer-vol.swf" width="350" height="20" id="dewplayer" name="dewplayer"> <param name="wmode" value="transparent" /> <param name="movie" value="webs/dewplayer-vol.swf" /> <param name="flashvars" value="mp3=http://goingthruvinyl.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/S02-Ep06-2of-2-Slowly-turning-yourself-into-a-composer-with-Christian-Wolff.mp3&bgcolor=FFFFFF&showtime=1&autoplay=0&autoreplay=0&volume=100" /> </object> </TD> </TR> </TABLE><br><hr> {/html} {br}{br} '''Autres sources :''' * Tilbury, John, ''Christian Wolff and the Politics of Music'', http://www.newworldrecords.org/uploads/file9CQrs.pdf * http://www.soundexpanse.com/rs13-wolff/ {br}{br}{br}{br} ----
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