Pierre Jodlowski
Pierre Jodlowski
Genres: contemporary classical, composer, electro-acoustic, Avant-Garde, acousmatique
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About Pierre Jodlowski
Pierre Jodlowski (b. 9 March 1971, Toulouse) is a French composer of mixed music. He works in particular on intermediality, music informatics, staging, image and interactive arts. Pierre Jodlowski began his musical studies at the Conservatoire de Toulouse where he got the First Prize in music theory in 1991. His instrumental training included piano, saxophone and electric bass. He realized several projects in jazz and rock and achieved the course of composition in Scientific and Technical Studies (DEUST) at the University of Toulouse. He began composing in 1993 with Cinq poèmes by Jacques Dupin, an electronic piece fixed on a magnetic tape. In 1995, he got his degree in Music and Musicology from the University of Lyon and in 1996, his Music National Diploma of Higher Studies (DNESM) in electroacoustic composition at the Conservatoire National de Lyon. He then moved on to the Institute for Research and Acoustic / Music Coordination, where he studied composition and computer music. He completed his training by obtaining the certificate of proficiency as professor of electroacoustic composition in 1998. All the works composed by Jodlowski during this period move towards mixed music in real time as in his piece Dialog / No dialog (1997) where a flutist on stage is accompanied by a virtual voice. After this period of study, Jodlowski continued to produce mixed music works and tried to establish multiple relationships between the instruments on stage and the sounds projected by loud speakers. He very quickly identified the question of gesture as essential in the development of his writing, and in several works he gave it an important role: De Front (1999) (Prix de Bourges / Mixed Music category), Mixtion (2002), Barbarismes (2001) and Mecano 1 (2004), a piece for percussion opposing a musician to a small automaton, a kind of metronome, an essential tool for the musician. In the same period, the Cinémathèque de Toulouse commissioned him for an electronic creation of Eisenstein's first film, La Grève. After its creation in 2000, he presented this project on various European stages. It has become internationally well known since. Between 2001 and 2003, he stayed in residence at the Berlin Academy of Arts and worked on a first cycle of works leading to a stage show: the three pieces were linked under the title "Berlin Random Memories" and included new media: in N, N, N (2002) for a solo dancer, he explored the possibilities of motion sensors and in Is it This ?, real time video. Between 2004 and 2006, he composed Time & Money, a piece for percussion and electronics, for which he got the High School Prize for Composers in 2015. This creation highlights the major themes of Jodlowski's work: questioning about the world, political commitment, the question of theatricality in musical creation, how to write the gesture, integration of visual and scenic media in the process of composition. All these points were developed in an article published in the Inouï review of the Institute for Research and Acoustic Coordination / Music (IRCAM) in 2016 " : The gesture, a question in composition".
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