ANNABELLE PLAYE | COMPOSITION, SOLO ÉLECTRONIQUE
GRÉGORY ROBIN | CAPTATIONS VIDÉOS
ISSUE PROJECT ROOM | New-York | Mercredi 21 avril 2021
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AD ASTRA : une force nous vient de l’univers. Brute. Inéluctable.
Peut-être nous amènera-t’elle à considérer le vivant avec douceur ?

1. Sideral : 0’00
2. Venus : 4’29
3. Tilt : 10’26
4. Virgo : 15’17
5. Aries : 17’39
6. Gold : 21’06
7. Pluto : 25’29
8. Uranus : 28’54
9. Silver : 30’07

Ad Astra teaser from Anna on Vimeo.

Merci à Alexandra Radulescu, Tzse-Man Chan, Gregory Robin, Yves Tanné.

ISSUE PROJECT ROOM : With Women’s Work commande à des artistes de créer de nouvelles œuvres inspirées par des partitions figurant dans Womens Work, un magazine édité et auto-publié par Alison Knowles et Annea Lockwood à New-York.

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With Womens Work : Annabelle Playe - Ad Astra
Wed 21 Apr, 2021, 8pm

Wednesday, April 21st, at 8pm EST, ISSUE is pleased to stream Ad Astra, a new work by French multidisciplinary artist Annabelle Playe. The piece is part of the With Womens Work series, commissioning artists to interpret and respond to scores included in Womens Work, a magazine first edited and self-published in 1975 by Alison Knowles and Annea Lockwood.

Notes from Annabelle Playe on Ad Astra :

Ad Astra is a Latin phrase meaning "towards the stars.” A force comes to us from the universe. Brute. Inevitable. Perhaps it will lead us to consider living with more gentleness ? I’m going to compose with modules, reverbs, a compressor, a MFB Synth II, and a polyphonic synthesizer. Ad Astra will consist of a series of pieces. The duration of each piece will be variable. Long or very short. This creation will take the format of an electroacoustic piece but it can also be played live from the instruments mentioned above. Each piece will be, in a general way, minimalist, born from the musical gesture. According to astrologers, the planets influence us in an invisible way. I want to express this magnetism through this music. I don’t know yet if I will choose among the planets of the solar system or if I will try to express the energies of the 12 planets, or even 13, since the discovery of Eris in the 2000s. The attacks, beginnings, and ends of these will be in the center of my attention. In the idea, I want to precisely delineate the pieces as an autonomous force that can act brutally. The instrumental gesture will be closely linked to the texture of the sound and it is from this that the piece will be formed, like the glassblower working on a breath. It is therefore the conduction of a sound that will be central to this compositional approach. The succession of the pieces will constitute the systemic elements of a whole that surpasses us but acts in an invisible, more or less direct way. In Ad Astra, music becomes the medium of our solar system, a tiny part of the universe. I would like this creation to remind us of this scale of greatness.

1. Sideral : 0’00
2. Venus : 4’29
3. Tilt : 10’26
4. Virgo : 15’17
5. Aries : 17’39
6. Gold : 21’06
7. Pluto : 25’29
8. Uranus : 28’54
9. Silver : 30’07

Thanks to Alexandra Radulescu, Tzse-Man Chan, Gregory Robin, Yves Tanné.

The piece responds to the "ZODIACAL MEDITATION" score by Julie Winter included in Womens Work Volume #1, 1975.

Photo : Image courtesy Annabelle Playe

ISSUE Project Room’s With Womens Work Series is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and a grant from The Howard Gilman Foundation for 2021 online artist commissions. ISSUE gratefully acknowledges additional 2021 Winter/Spring Season support from TD Charitable Foundation and Metabolic Studio (a direct charitable activity of the Annenberg Foundation).