Geneviève Calame

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Geneviève Calame (born December 30, 1946 ; died October 8, 1993 ) was a Swiss pianist , teacher and composer .

Street sign in Geneva

biography

Geneviève Calame was born in Geneva , but was of Greek-Italian origin. She studied piano with Lottie Morel in Geneva and with Guido Agosti in Rome . Then she continued her studies in Geneva with Louis Hiltbrand and Jacques Guyonnet. She also completed composition courses in London with Pierre Boulez , in Liège with Henri Pousseur and in Paris with Jean-Claude Éloy . She then studied the technology of electronic and electroacoustic music in New York with Hubert Howe and Bill Etra.

After completing her studies, Geneviève Calame worked as a composer and musician at the Studios de musique contemporaine in Geneva. In 1971 she founded a studio for electronic music and video information with Jacques Guyonnet under the name ART (Artistic Research Team) . She started creating audiovisual installations . Between 1972 and 1983 she played several times as a soloist in the Studio de Musique Contemporaine (Geneva).

In 1972 she married Jacques Guyonnet. The couple had two children.

Geneviève Calame developed a method of teaching electronic music for children. From 1975 to 1993 she taught at the Commission for Education in Geneva and at the École Supérieure d'Art Visuel . From 1976 she presided over the Geneva section of the Society for Contemporary Music . She was a leader in video art, in which she created several hundred works, starting with fixed images. This work was shown in Cannes on MIP TV, at ART Studios Geneva, in the Art Museum Lausanne with René Berger, in Rio de Janeiro with Cecilia Meireles and in the Serpentine Gallery in London. Calame died in Tijuana (Mexico) in 1993 .

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Geneviève Calame composed for orchestras, chamber ensembles, singing, ballet, electronics, performance and multimedia. Her works are:

  • L'Oiseau du matin (1972), ballet
  • Mantiq-al-Tayr (1973) for flute, bass flute and four electronic sources
  • Différentielle verticale (1974) for soprano and symphony orchestra
  • Lude (1975) for harp
  • Iral (1975) for four trumpets and four trombones
  • Géométrie I, II, III (1975-1976) video cassette
  • Le chant remémoré (1975) video cassette
  • Alpha futur (1976) for symphony orchestra and soprano
  • Labyrinthes Fluides (1976) video cassette
  • Vidéo Tableaux (1976–1977)
  • Videocosme (1976) pour le poème électronique de Edgar Varèse. Video cassette
  • STEEPHAnE mAllArmE (1977) ou Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard ... for chamber orchestra
  • Et l'Oeil rêve ... (1977) Poème visuel
  • Les Aubes d'Onomadore (1978) for African instruments and symphony orchestra
  • Le Son-Qui-Fut-Mille (1978) for four electronic sources and percussion instruments
  • Mandala (1978) for 7 trumpets or 7 female voices
  • L'Homme-Miroir (1979) for wind orchestra, percussion and four electronic sources
  • Je lui dis ... (1980) Chamber orchestra
  • Oniria (1981) for piano and tape
  • Calligrammes (1983–1984) for harp and chamber orchestra
  • Océanides (1986) for chamber orchestra
  • Swing (1986) for piano
  • Sur la margelle du monde (1987) for chamber orchestra
  • Le Livre de Tchen (1988) for three percussionists and mime
  • Vent solaire (1989–1990) for shakuhachi and orchestra
  • Incantation (1989) for organ
  • Cantilène (1990) for violin solo
  • Dragon de lumière (1991) for three wind and five string instruments
  • Le chant des sables (1992) for cello, harp and gongs
  • Echo (1992) for flute
  • Hi Summer (1993) for voice, harp, drums and synthesizer

Honors

In 2019 , a street in Geneva was named after her as part of the 100 Elles renomée project .

literature

  • Irène Minder-Jeanneret: Geneviève Calame. In: Les Femmes dans la mémoire de Genève. You XVe au XXe siècle. Editions Susan Hurter, 2005.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Calame Geneviève. musinfo.ch,, accessed on March 15, 2020.
  2. ↑ Swiss Institute for Art Research (SIK-ISEA): Compendium of image errors in analogue video. Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich 2013, pp. 112–113, 262–263
personal data
SURNAME Calame, Genevieve
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss pianist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Geneva (Switzerland)
DATE OF DEATH October 8, 1993
Place of death Tijuana (Mexico)