Born in Epinal, on October 5, 1974, and now living in Nice, Patrice Colet has been self-taught in electric guitar since the age of fifteen, and three years later took jazz lessons at CEDAC in Cimiez and then at the conservatory in Nice.
He studied electroacoustic composition at the International Center for Musical Research (CIRM) between 1998 and 2004 and started a collaborative project to pay tribute to Frank Zappa to practice orchestration and interpretation of pieces difficult to play.
He has also composed music for various circus and contemporary dance shows such as “Les Quartolets,” “Laps” with the AOC collective, and is currently working on various projects like “Les Sixtolets” with the company La Rue Luberlu, “Pas Au Point” with the company Jonglometric …) and “L’étiquette qui Gratte” by Nedjma Benchaib Laure Saupique Bertrand Landhauser, as well as a project for public electronic music broadcast called “Nykto.”
This Wednesday, November 7, Patrice Colet will present the fruit of his work on the stage of the Salle des Variétés in Monaco from 12:30 pm:
” When the opportunity came to write for this orchestra, I was curious to hear how music played by electrified, or amplified instruments might sound, how to achieve sound effects as interesting as with effect processors, synthesizers. “
During this experience, we will hear the following pieces:
- UNCLE MEAT (arr. yellow shark)
In 1969 F. Zappa made “UNCLE MEAT,” a film that would not be released until 1987 because at the time of filming he couldn’t raise the funds to produce the film, and an album that marks one of his first steps towards classical music. With the contemporary ensemble “The Yellow Shark,” they re-recorded in September 1992 “Dog Breath Variation” and “UNCLE MEAT,” two rearranged excerpts from the film’s soundtrack.
– MOMENTS IN LOVE
The eighties were musically marked by an avant-garde synthpop group “Art Of Noise” formed in 1983 by producer Trevor Horn, music journalist Paul Morley, and musician Anne Dudley. The group’s name alludes to the manifesto “L’Arte dei Rumori” (The Art of Noises) by futurist Luigi Russolo.
In 2002, Anne Dudley rearranged “MOMENTS IN LOVE” for her second album and conducted a spectacular concert of “Chill Out” music for the Royal Festival Hall and Brixton Academy orchestra.
– RÉGLISSE
The word RÉGLISSE (liquorice) comes from the morphology of this confectionery formed of a roll of two strands.
This serves to describe a series of contemporary dance figures, and illustrated by music I wrote for the show “De Sable Et De Vent” produced by Natya Dance Compagnie and the circus As Pa De Maioun, choreographed by Brigitte Faragou in 2005.
This form also evokes, to my eyes, a layer of electrons and a layer of protons that self-organize into an intertwined form when matter is subjected to an electric field, like the plasma around the incandescent filament of an arc lamp (ref. Irvin Langmuir), a spiral like a galaxy (ref. Anthony Peratt), or a DNA molecule.
RÉGLISSE represents an iterative form of unequal dimensions that flows around an invisible force, an ancestral petroglyph symbolizing the sun.
– SINISTER FOOTWEAR Mvt 2
“SINISTER FOOTWEAR Mvt 2” is a typical work of Frank Zappa’s musical universe, both complex and burlesque, this composition was first improvised during a concert in NYC, The Palladium, on October 27, 1978, and transcribed for orchestra.
The three-movement orchestral piece was performed as a ballet by the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra conducted by Kent Nagano in 1984, but Zappa could not fund a troupe of dancers and replaced the pantomimes with life-sized marionettes.
