‘It is important artists react to the world in which we all live’: An interview with Philippe Manoury on Lab.Oratorium

Luis Velasco-Pufleau (1) , Philippe Manoury (2)

1 UNIBE - Universität Bern / University of Bern
2 Equipe Autre (hors R&D)

Lab.Oratorium (2019) is the concluding part of Philippe Manoury’s Köln Trilogy. It follows In situ (2013) and Ring (2016) in exploring the spoken voice as a musical element, the wider possibilities of the orchestra, and the use of sound spatialization and live electronics. Lab.Oratorium is also a work deeply rooted in the present. In this interview, Philippe Manoury discusses the political and poetic significance of this work, conceived as an artistic response to Europe’s responsibility in the tragic situation of migrants around the Mediterranean. He also develops his thoughts on musical form, spatialization, and creative process in music.

Mots clés: migration; Mediterranean; Manoury Philippe; music twenty-first century; Lab.Oratorium; IRCAM; Arendt Hannah; Trakl Georg; music and politics; Nietzsche Friedrich; Bachmann Ingeborg

Domaines: Musique, musicologie et arts de la scène; Histoire

Luis Velasco-Pufleau, Philippe Manoury. ‘It is important artists react to the world in which we all live’: An interview with Philippe Manoury on Lab.Oratorium. Tempo, 2020, 74 (293), pp.6-13. ⟨10.1017/S0040298220000224⟩. ⟨hal-02863819v2⟩