André Almuro

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André Almuro ( alternative spelling: André Almuró ; born June 3, 1927 in Paris ; † June 17, 2009 in Ivry-sur-Seine , Département Val-de-Marne ) was a French radio play writer , composer of electroacoustic music , operas , oratorios and film music , director of short films and founder of the sensationniste movement .

Life

Almuro founded a small literary magazine as early as 1947 at the age of twenty and began writing his first radio plays in 1948. In 1950 he founded a studio for electronic research in the Parisian literature club Maison des Lettres and since then has also worked for the Club d'Essai , founded in 1946 , a working group led by Pierre Schaeffer and Jean Tardieu to produce radio plays for the radio station RTF ( Radiodiffusion-télévision française ) .

In the following years Almuro wrote radio plays based on models by authors such as Jean Genet , André Breton , Jean Cocteau and Jules Supervielle, and worked on the Franco-German coproduction Hoffmann und seine Fantome . He also composed the music for the ballet Fièvre de marbre by Maurice Béjart . In 1958 he became a member of the group for musical experiments founded by Pierre Schaeffer (Groupe de recherches musicales) and began working with Jacques Polieri at the same time .

In the period that followed, numerous performances of his works in various capitals of Europe followed, as well as attempts to translate his almost untranslatable surrealist pieces into German as part of the radio program of Südwestfunk (SWF), such as the radio play Nadja Etoilee from 1949 based on the novel Nadja (1928) by André Breton. In it he used elements of the musique concrète in a way that goes beyond a structuring or illustrative function, so that they can exist as autonomous passages; on the other hand, the piece contains quotations from poems by Alfred Jarry and Charles Baudelaire, already used by Breton inserted here in full. In addition, the piece is formally split into 26 sequences, seven of which are assigned to a subplot that initially seems completely unrelated.

Many of his works were on vinyl records . Almuro, whose work can be compared to that of Paul Pörtner , achieved further fame with the adaptation Le Rivage des Syrtes based on the novel of the same name by Julien Gracq , which took part in 1966 as a French contribution to the Prix ​​Italia radio and television competition. In the 1960s there were also various collaborations with the songwriter and singer Colette Magny , who sang his pieces such as Buraburabura .

In 1973 Almuro accepted a professorship at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne . In 1976 he presented his first action performance with Partition with Ange Leccia and founded the group Son-Image-Corps together with his students . In addition, in 1976, Pièce de musique collaborated with Pierre Clémenti , whom he first met in 1957 as a young actor.

In 1978 his first short film Cortège was released , which was followed by more than 30 other films. In 2002 he published L'oeil Pinéal, Pour une cinégraphie .

Discography (selection)

  • 1958: Le Suicidé De La Société
  • 1963: L'Envol / Ambitus
  • 1966: Le Condamné à Mort
  • 1966: Colette Magny: Avec, poème sur structure musicale de André Almuro
  • 1999: Dépli
  • 2007: Musiques Expérimentales, 1966–1969
  • 2007: André ALMURO

Filmography (selection)

For the films he directed, all of which were short films with the exception of Hors-jeux (1980) and Chant secret (1989), he also composed the film music. He also created the music for short films by Stéphane Marti and Ange Leccia.

Director

  • 1978: Cortège
  • 1980: Hors-jeux
  • 1986: Point vélique
  • 1987: L'inopiné
  • 1988: Le lever des corps
  • 1988: Flash
  • 1989: Le troisième oeil
  • 1989: Chant secret
  • 1990: Clones
  • 1991: Continuum
  • 1992: Rumeur
  • 1994: Littérale
  • 1996: Tropes
  • 1998: Entéléchie
  • 2002: chaos

Film music

  • 1976: Lady Man
  • 1980: Stridura

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Antje Vowinckel : Collages in radio play: the development of a radiophonic art , p. 28, ISBN 3-8260-1015-9 , 1995
  2. ↑ Colette Magny - André Almuro - Buraburabura , 1967 ( YouTube )
  3. ^ Pièce de musique (Radio Rance)
  4. ↑ André Almuro - Dépli (1999) (YouTube)
  5. ^ André Almuro Musiques Expérimentales , 1966–1969 (YouTube)
personal data
SURNAME Almuro, André
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Almuró, André
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French composer, radio play author and short film director
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH June 17, 2009
Place of death Ivry-sur-Seine , Val-de-Marne department