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Abstract Long before 1977 marked the inauguration of Ircam and the start of his lectures at the Collège de France, Pierre Boulez had laid the foundations for his public activities. He had even done so by stirring up resounding polemics that left little …

Conference in English. Abstract Pierre Boulez reminds us that one of the sources of the form of Anthèmes 1 is the plainchant Lamentations of Jeremiah , which he sang in his youth during the First Nocturne service on Holy Thursday. The most striking …

Abstract "Music doesn't need a laboratory". With these words, the famous physicist and Nobel Prize winner Werner Heisenberg at the Max Planck Institute rejected Pierre Boulez's project for collaboration between science and music in 1970. Did Werner …

Abstract Faced with the growing success of discourses that make climate change the driving force behind the successes and (above all) the failures of ancient societies, we need to give a voice to the actors -   humans and non-humans alike   - of …

Abstract In November 1970, at the request of President Georges Pompidou, Pierre Boulez began work on a project to integrate a music research institute into the future Beaubourg Plateau art center. Over the next three years, Boulez consulted and assembled …

This event is not broadcast online. Program Presentation by Nicolas Donin and Jonathan Goldman Pierre Boulez Dérive  1 , for six   instruments (the work will be performed twice) Répons , for six   soloists, ensemble and electronics (excerpt) Tristan …

Abstract The main part of Boulez's last lecture at the Collège de France - "L'œuvre: tout ou fragment" (The work: whole or fragment) - deals with the different types of relationship that the fragment and the whole can have within the work , depending on …

Abstract Pierre Boulez has a unique relationship with archives and libraries. The composer, who wanted to "burn libraries" and made them the site of the tension between memory and creation, was himself interested in the archives of others, and took care …

Abstract A landmark work, Pierre Boulez's Répons (1980-82) was written to showcase the technological potential of IRCAM, the Parisian Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music that Boulez founded in 1977. This piece, like many others, was …

Abstract In 1986, Pierre Boulez signed a contract to donate his musical manuscripts to the Swiss conductor and patron Paul Sacher, a friend of many years. The collection was the cornerstone of the musical holdings that have since been preserved and …

Abstract Pierre Boulez has written and spoken surprisingly little about composers active in the second half of the twentieth century. A prolific author and passionate commentator on composers such as Webern, Schoenberg and Debussy, whom he integrated into …

Abstract The topic of musical material features prominently throughout Boulez's College de France lectures, and in this paper I set out to establish some of the principal elements of its elaboration. Boulez spoke of the dissatisfaction experienced by …

Abstract Pierre Boulez was not only the composer of thirty-three works (and their revisions), but also the author of books of various kinds: compositional techniques, interviews, correspondence and three volumes containing one hundred and fifty articles …

Abstract In this talk, I will explore how the diachronic and synchronic variation documented by Romance languages, and in particular by their dialectal varieties, offers us an unparalleled harvest of linguistic data (often of a typologically exotic …

Abstract Focus on the current situation regarding the safeguarding of Ebla textual data. Discussion of the isolation of the texts in the Eblaite archives, so ancient in the Semitic context and so original in their writing compared with the Mesopotamian …

Abstract Compartmentalization is generally regarded as one of the key prerequisites for life. To better understand its role, there is a clear need for model systems in which life-like properties can be installed. In this lecture I will discuss a synthetic …

Abstract While linguistic representations are unlimited, some fundamental structural relations are local  : they must be satisfied within a very limited portion of structure. For example, grammatical agreement phenomena must typically be satisfied …

Abstract Should we say personal the daimōn of each because a distinct daimōn is assigned to each ? The expression οἰκεῖος δαίμων exists, but it is late. And how does the idea of a daimōn assigned to each person, or chosen by each person, if we take into …

Abstract In this talk, I will employ an ADM deparametrization strategy to discuss the radial canonical formalism for asymptotically AdS gravity in three dimensions. It leads to the identification of a radial 'time' before quantization, namely the volume …