MANIFESTE-2024, academy – June 10 – 22 in Paris
Discoveries, discussions, and networking

ManiFeste, the IRCAM multidisciplinary festival and academy, is a gathering of creative artists in Paris, combining music with other disciplines. This year, the IRCAM team welcomed 82 participants, organizing a joyful and multifaceted edition, where young composers, instrumentalists, sound engineers met, discussed, worked together and networked!
The academy's team concocted a program that gave again a special attention to the composers whose pieces were performed in the ManiFeste festival with interventions from Matteo Francheschini, Elzbieta Sikora and Mayu Hirano and guest composers Chaya Czernowin, Daniele Ghisi, involved in the ÉLAN award competition for orchestra, Francesca Verunelli who led the composition workshop for Solo and Amplification and Martin Matalon, tutoring the Collaboratory Ciné-Concert workshop. Not mentioning, IRCAM researchers lectures and a presentation of IRCAM's Cursus by composers Pierre Jodlowski and Xue Han who is currently attending the Cursus.

This year, the ULYSSES network endorsed 4 young participants in our academy as part of their ULYSSES journey, as well as the Collaboratory Ciné-Concert Workshop and the ULYSSES ensemble.

# ULYSSES Journeys
Supporting careers of young talents on their journey to becoming mature professionals. By offering concrete working experiences – workshops and residencies with relevant tutors and always in cooperation with other young or confirmed artists – in different production contexts, among which the young artists can define their own journey. By putting them on the path leading to professional commissions with European-wide tour dates.

This year, in the academy ManiFeste, we had the pleasure to welcome four young composers endorsed by the ULYSSES network, Krõõt-Kärt Kaev, Natalia Laguens, Ján Števuliak and Matilda Seppälä.

Matilda Seppälä talking Ingrid Saldaña and Lucas Muñoz Ramires during a “coffee and chouquettes” break – © Natacha Moënne-Loccoz

Matilda Seppälä, as an auditor, attended lectures by composers, instrumentalists, IRCAM researchers, friendly moments with coffee and chouquettes, rehearsals and concerts of the academy. She also had the opportunity to access the huge collection of scores and reviews in IRCAM multimedia library.

# Collaboratory Ciné-Concert Workshop
Providing new perspectives on creative collaboration, questioning the authorship and “signature” of a work, and evolving in a situation where a collective of artists shares the responsibility for the development of an experience, a new work, or device.

Using this approach, aesthetic decisions are transformed into shared participative processes with methodologies that generate new questions and challenges. The objective is to create various creative processes for young artists, allowing them to reflect on their experiences acquired over time, in cooperation with others as well as in interaction with a specific context and audience.

Composer Martin Matalon and the BL!NDMAN collective offered six young composers a cinema-concert workshop, in which they created original scores for silent comedy films. Three young composers endorsed by the ULYSSES network, Krõõt-Kärt Kaev, Natalia Laguens, Ján Števuliak shared their sonic creations set for percussion and electronics to The Cook by Buster Keaton, and the 3 others a soundtrack for one of the short films from Max Fleischer’s series Out of the inkwell.

The Cook by Buster Keaton - percussionist Ward De Ketelaere from BL!NDMAN [drums] – © Natacha Moënne-Loccoz

On Friday, June 21, two concerts were given in CENTQUATRE-PARIS where the six pieces were performed as premieres, by Ward De Ketelaere, Yves Goemaere, Hannes Nieuwlaet, Gideon Van Canneyt from BL!NDMAN [drums]

ULYSSES journey composers Krõõt-Kärt Kaev, Natalia Laguens, Ján Števuliak and percussionist Ward De Ketelaere – © Bérénice S.

# ULYSSES Ensemble
Through the ULYSSES Ensemble, the ULYSSES network took a major step forward in 2017, directing its efforts towards young performers - while remaining focused on the music of today. A new ensemble of young musicians living in Europe is formed each year and travels through several academies and festivals affiliated with the ULYSSES network. In June 2024, the ULYSSES Ensemble stopped in Paris to be part of a masterclass led by conductor Pierre Bleuse and musicians from the Ensemble intercontemporain

ULYSSES ensemble 2024 in Centre Pompidou, Paris– © Quentin Chevrier

This year, the ULYSSES Ensemble was made up of 17 musicians: Federico Altare, flute (Italy) Patricia Pinheiro, oboe (Portugal), Takahiro Katayama, clarinet (Japan), Oleksandr Zhehalov, clarinet (Ukraine), Helena Ortuno, bassoon (France), Mari Tirkkonen, horn (Finland), Billur Ongun, trumpet (Turquey), Chloé Ryo, trombone (France), Jiayu Luo, percussion (China), Edith Josse, harp (France), Miharu Ogura, piano (Japan), Ariane Bodin, violin (France), Alexis Perraud, violin (France), Eva Garnet, viola (France), Hortense Airault, cello (France), Pietro Elia Barcellona, double bass (Italy).

ULYSSES ensemble, with conductor Pierre Bleuse – © Quentin Chevrier

In ManiFeste, French conductor Pierre Bleuse led a master class for the ULYSSES Ensemble with the complicity of soloists from the Ensemble intercontemporain who advised the young musicians and performed Michael Jarell’s La chambre aux échos with them. ULYSSES ensemble musicians also reran Feliz Anne Reyes Macahis’ piece for ensemble, Diwata, a 2021 co-commission IRCAM and Fondation Royaumont, supported by the ULYSSES network, Chambered Music by Simon Steen-Andersen and Mysteries of the Macabre by György Ligeti.

After Collaboratory Ciné-Concert– © Natacha Moënne-Loccoz

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