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ABOUT
Léo Collin studied applied arts in Marseille and Besançon, classical music in Lyon and electro-acoustic music composition in Geneva, Freiburg im Breisgau and Zurich with Michael Jarrell, Brice Pauset and Isabel Mundry. He stays in Zurich, next to the mountains.
His pieces are composed of field recordings, extended techniques, childhood memories, with samples of internet mixed with mainstream myths. Also, he likes to transmute the ritual of the concert by his experiences in theater to find other musical formats to listen to these contemporary musics. He uses computer music software (such as max-msp) and hijacks it for the stage and "passive" audience participation.
Also he stages pieces from the contemporary repertoire for himself and his international kollektif trio Totem- KIT - like their "le grand plongeon" - remix of the orchestral piece Atlantis by Peter Eötvös.
Some scores have been commissioned and played by ensembles such as les métaboles, Intercontemporain, soundinitiative-paris, leminiscate-basel, lucillin- luxembourg, avanti-helsinki, batida & eklekto-genève, les voix animées-Toulon, musicatreize-marseille and öx&öl-zurich.
He regularly composes electronic music for theater or dance, for the Schauspielhaus Zürich and the Deutsches Theater Berlin, or for directors and choreographers- such as Bernadette Köbele. Leo participated for shows, workshop by Alessandro Sciarroni or Sebastian Baumgartner, or
Since 2018, he has been working as an assistant for the composer and performer Jörg Köppl.
NEXT moments where you can meet Léo
18 Februar 2022 Music for gas station
@Toni areal Zürich # ensemble INVERSPACE
21 Februar 2022 Music for gas station
@Toni areal Zürich # ensemble INVERSPACE
14-18 Februar 2022 @GMEM Marseille Residence Corals with KIT
https://gmem.org/residence/leo-collin-leandro-gianini-neue-vocalsolisten/
LAST moments where you could met Léo
14+15.01.2022 tutorial @ rotefabrik Zürich
Music for Seismograph 17.01.22`
# Bern ENSEMBLE Lemniscate
Music for Seismograph 18.01.22`
# Walcheturm ENSEMBLE Lemniscate
Music for Seismograph 19.01.22`
# Gare du nord ENSEMBLE Lemniscate
18.12.2021Music for Flower @Abenboden Duo AKMI
3.12 EAR with sonic matter @tonhalle ZURICH
9.12 Kaspar König + KIT@ Walcheturm ZURICH 26.11 Werkjahr Stadt Zürich @Kunsthaus ZURICH
19.11 le grand Plongeon @gare du Nord-BALE
5.11 DER PILZ [Jörg Köppl] WABERN
13.11 DER PILZ [Jörg Köppl] BADEN
Souvenirs
MUSIC FOR
Commissions from different ensembles such ensemble Intercontemporain, les Métaboles,
United instrument of Luxembourg, Musicatreize-Marseille, Avanti, Batida & Leminiscate
amongst others
MUSICIAN
Léo is multi-instrumentist, sometime stage director and often curator
within the trio KOLLEKTIV INTERNATIONAL TOTEM
with Kay Zhang and Nuriia Khasenova
---> more info www.kollektivtotem.com
He did some nice prototypes with old friends Adrian Galeazzi, Raphaël Languillat or Cimon Finix.
TUTORIAL
Tuto
I did some prototype, kind of small piece after commission, or a workshop or an invitation to do a performance in a other country or another place which not my “home”.
Most of the time it is a reflection, an investigation to relax the clichés I had about the context I did the piece. I did it with many collaborators.
ALBUMS
I conduct sort of theater composed with different musics I compose around a thema : each album is a celebration, a translation for the stage, resultat of a process from different format and different settings - made with lots of friends such as Leandro Gianini, Dalius Singer, Mariana Grünig and also Cimon Finix, Louise Decaillet...
click on the image-cover to discover the cosmos behind it.
MEDUSEN (2017-2022)
BALEEN (2015-2021)
SONST
I work as assistant for the composer, performer and stage director
Jörg Köppl
www.audiokunst.ch
Pieces realized togetherDAS PILZ IM PATENT// MOTOR MUTTER//MONO
Ami.es
CIMON FINIX MUSICIAN_PERFORMER
KAYJU ZHANG MUSICIAN
LEANDRO GIANINI AUDIO-ENGINEER
NURIYA KHASENOVA MUSICIAN
DALIUS SINGER AUDIOCODER
MARIANA VIEIRA STAGE-COSTUME DESIGNER
COLIN LUSINCHI VISUAL ARTIST
RAPHAEL LANGUILLAT COMPOSER-VISUAL ARTIST
ADRIAN GALEAZZI ARCHITECT
ERIC LARRIEUX ENGINEER
FRANCESCA SPROCCATI PERFORMER-CHOREGRAPH
FLORENT CARRAS COMPOSER
ISANDRO OJEDA-GARCIA COMPOSER
REUBEN JELLEYMAN LARA STANIC COMPOSER
CHARLES QUEVILLON COMPOSER
DANIEL CAMPBELL ARTIST
BERNADETTE KÖBELE ARTIST
have a look to my ARCHIVES
His pratice focus on feeling the surround, invite audience to a sharing of our incomplétudes.
Il s’entraine jour après jour à la pensée
Décoloniale // Dé-polémique //Dé-compétitistes.
En devenir noir/sorcières/ queer/ animal. Il aime utiliser les codes de la musique composée, contemporaine pour les mettre dans des formes parlées- immersive.
Il compose à la place des animals, des plantes, des fantômes. Il pousse la composition aux limites de la pensée. Cette une sorte de réponse à l’extinction de la biodiversité, aux l’effondement passés et futurs. Il réponds à la sensibilité face à la souverainté, à la monoculture, au plantanocene. ( il offre une sorte de training)
En tant que musicien, il entretient un rapport nuancé avec ses instruments hors-corps qui lui permis de pouvoir s’exprimer.
En tant que compositeur, il s’entraîne à aimer les failles des instruments, de la technologie/ technique pour les combiner avec les sons d’objets et de machines, d’animaux et de plantes- pour se rapprocher d’eux-elles
Il s’entraine jour après jour à la pensée
Décoloniale // Dé-polémique //Dé-compétitistes.
En devenir noir/sorcières/ queer/ animal. Il aime utiliser les codes de la musique composée, contemporaine pour les mettre dans des formes parlées- immersive.
Il compose à la place des animals, des plantes, des fantômes. Il pousse la composition aux limites de la pensée. Cette une sorte de réponse à l’extinction de la biodiversité, aux l’effondement passés et futurs. Il réponds à la sensibilité face à la souverainté, à la monoculture, au plantanocene. ( il offre une sorte de training)
En tant que musicien, il entretient un rapport nuancé avec ses instruments hors-corps qui lui permis de pouvoir s’exprimer.
En tant que compositeur, il s’entraîne à aimer les failles des instruments, de la technologie/ technique pour les combiner avec les sons d’objets et de machines, d’animaux et de plantes- pour se rapprocher d’eux-elles
photo de raphaël languillat
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