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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 …

The symposium will be held on Tuesday 2 and Wednesday 3 July 2025 at the ENS, in the Jean Jaurès amphitheatre (entrance via 28 rue Lhomond, 75005 Paris). Program Pre-Islamic Late Antiquity (200 - 750 CE) 9.00am - 9.30am: "Preliminary Results of the Study …

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 Sharp structures can occur as minimizers of very regular problems. This means symmetry can lead us badly astray and the resultant symmetry breaking may lead to highly counter-intuitive structures. I will illustrate in a discrete example and then …

The symposium will be held on Tuesday 2 and Wednesday 3 July 2025 at the ENS, in the Jean Jaurès amphitheatre (entrance via 28 rue Lhomond, 75005 Paris). Program Final Bronze - Earliest Iron Age 9.00am - 9.30am: "Connecting the Dots: the site of …

Abstract The control of irrigation by a bureaucratic apparatus linked to religious and/or state power is at the heart of social theories that have marked the history of ideas over the last one hundred and fifty years. Although largely discredited, they …

Documents and media Download support Abstract The humanities and social sciences provide a means of examining the political, semiological, functional and representational implications of the perception and management of biological invasions. Whether in …

Abstract This lecture series ends with a more positive conclusion, highlighting a successful example of the fight against biological invasions and the rescue of a species unique to a small Pacific archipelago, a dwarf fox whose numbers were decimated in a …