Exhibition
Imaginary Landscapes
LE ROYAUME D’EN BAS (excerpts)
Le Royaume D’en Bas [Kogiki] excerpt_1
Duration: 2’56”
Le Royaume D’en Bas [Purgatoire] excerpt_2
Duration:8’11”
Author: Pierre Jodlowski
Nationality: French
Year of production: 2026
Type of Artwork: Screening_Session
Duration:20″ – 25″
These two films are excerpts from the performance “Le Royaume d’en bas”, created in 2011. In this project, I conducted several research investigations into the issue of the disappearance of knowledge, closely linked to the development of the Internet and communication networks. Drawing on various texts, the project takes the form of a descent into the underworld of generalized ignorance and into historical moments when books were burned…
All credits
Concept, composition: Pierre Jodlowski
Texts by Pierre Jodlowski freely adapted from:
“Livres en feu” by Lucien X. Polastron / “The Myth of the Cave – The Republic” by Plato
and excerpts from: “Diagram of Purgatory” – pedagogical manual based on “The Divine Comedy” by Dante / “Chant des Séries” – Breton druidic text translated by T. Hersat de Villemarqué / “Kojiki” – history of Japanese myths and genesis
Ayin, Performers’ Laboratory:
Isabelle Duthoit (clarinets, breath) / Jérémie Siot (electric violin) /
Jean Geoffroy (percussion, objects)
Actress: Manuela Agnesini
Video images: David Coste
Stage direction, set design, lighting: Christophe Bergon
Commissioned by GRAME and Césaré, National Centers for Musical Creation.
Produced by éOle, collective for active music, and GRAME, National Center for Musical Creation in Lyon.
In co-production with: Césaré, National Center for Musical Creation in Reims; TNT – Théâtre National de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées; Ayin – Performers’ Laboratory; Centre des Arts d’Enghien.
With the support of the French Ministry of Culture and Communication – Dicréam.
Pierre Jodlowski is associate composer at Odyssud – Conventioned Stage,
with the support of SACEM and DMDTS.
Artist bio
Pierre JODLOWSKI is a composer, performer and multimedia artist. His music, often marked by a high density, is at the crossroads of acoustic and electric sound and is characterized by dramatic and political anchor. His work as a composer led him to perform in France and abroad in most places dedicated to contemporary music aswell as others artistic fields, dance, theater, visual arts, electronic music. His work unfolds today in many areas : films, interactive installations, staging. He is defining his music as an “active process” on the physicall level [musical gestures, energy and space] and on the psychological level [relation to memory and visual dimension of sound]. In parallel to his compositions, he also performs on various scenes (experimental, jazz, electronic), solo or with other artists.
Since 1998 he is co-artistic director of éOle (research and production studio based in Toulouse) and since 2019, he has become Artistic Director of Musica Electronica Nova Festival, produced by the National Forum of Music in Wroclaw, Poland. He is currently the associated composer for the Composition Cursus at IRCAM.
He has been collaborating with various ensembles such as : Intercontemporain (Paris), Ictus (Belgium), KNM (Berlin), Nadar (Belgium), PHACE (Austria), the Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain (France), MusikFabrik (Germany), the new Ensemble Moderne (Montreal), Ars Nova (Sweden), Proxima Centauri (France), Court-circuit (France), Ensemble Les Éléments (France), the Berg Orchestra (Prague), Soundinitiative (France), LUX:NM (Germany) and various soloist from the international contemporary music scene. His work and stage productions led him to develop collaborations with visual artists, scenographers, dramaturge and authors.
He has received commissions from IRCAM, Ensemble Intercontemporain, the French Ministry of Culture, Akademie der Künste (Berlin), CIRM, GRM, the Donaueschingen Festival, Radio France, the Piano Competition in Orleans, GMEM, GRAME , Siemens Foundation, the Opera of Toulouse, the European project INTEGRA, the studio EMS – Stockholm, the Royaumont Foundation, Cabaret contemporain, Venice Biennale music festival, Polish Ministry of Culture…
Winner of several international competitions, he won the Prix Claude Arrieu SACEM in 2002, the Prix Hervé Dugardin SACEM in 2012, and was in residence at the Academy of the Arts of Berlin in 2003 and 2004. In 2013 he won a Prize awarded by “Academie Charles Cros” for one of his CD. In 2015 he is the winner of The Great Lyceum Prize in France for his piece “Time & Money”. From 2017 à 2019 he is resident artist in Lux – National Theater in Valence (France).
His works are performed in key places devoted to contemporary sound arts in France, Europe, Canada, China, Corea, Japan and Taiwan and the United States.
His works are partly published by Editions Jobert and are the subject of several CD and video recordings on the labels éOle Records, Radio France, Kaïros, Percussions de Strasbourg. He is living in France and Poland.