Julie Zhu: nadir aux pommes
Short Description / Kurzbeschreibung
The title nadir aux pommes is taken from the 1974 film Céline et Julie vont en bateau: Phantom Ladies Over Paris by Jacques Rivette. The piece is about a friend who is both so alike to you and yet so different. A charming, comical at times, collaborative and combative relationship, to both assert oneself and do the dance with the other. The composition is as well about distraction and the absurdity that can arise from giving attention to specific sound objects.
nadir aux pommes was written for Heather Roche and Eva Zöllner. QLab is used to live-trigger the video components in the score, as in each cut is triggered by a pedal operated by the clarinetist. This video is a fixed version of the live performance according to a recording.
Interprets And Location / Interpreten und Ort
- Performed by Heather Roche and Eva Zöllner (https://www.zoellner-roche.com/) at Woolwich Works in London.
- Recorded by Aaron Holloway-Nahum
- Filmed by Sam Walton (https://www.samwaltonphotography.com/)
- Edited and composed by Julie Zhu
Short Biography / Kurze Biographie
Julie Zhu (b. 1990) is a composer, visual artist, carillonist, and presidential postdoctoral fellow at University of Michigan. Her current research centers on creative and ethical use of AI and machine learning in the arts. In her creative practice, Zhu’s intermedia work explores the possibilities of constraints in visual-audio-spatial translations. Her works have been exhibited at and performed in Carnegie Hall (NYC), Herbst Theatre (San Francisco), IRCAM (Paris, France), digitIZMir (Izmir, Turkey), Tetramatyka Festival (Lviv, Ukraine), Sansusī (Latvia), Chicago Home Theater Festival, Miami Design District, College Band Director’s National Association, ICMC (Shenzhen, China), among others.
