{"id":1561,"date":"2022-10-12T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nette.ca\/jeannette\/?p=1561"},"modified":"2023-08-21T16:06:50","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T16:06:50","slug":"michel-lamberts-ars-transmutatoria-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nette.ca\/jeannette\/2022\/10\/12\/michel-lamberts-ars-transmutatoria-in-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Michel Lambert&#8217;s Ars Transmutatoria in action"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsteps.com\/embed\/627949c9bd0e0d8e8a4f6114\/853\/480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Welcome to Michel&#8217;s Ars Transmutatoria virtual museum! You can enter the exhibition space and take a tour of the visual scores at the core of the upcoming music release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As well as inventing this virtual exhibition for you, Michel has created a limited edition boxed set that includes four cds and a vinyl. These are packaged in a unique handmade box, signed, embossed, numbered.  Recordings included in the boxed set are <strong>Ars Transmutatoria Bronze<\/strong> and <strong>Orange<\/strong> as well as <strong>Rouge<\/strong> and <strong>Bleu<\/strong>. You can pick up the vinyl (which isn&#8217;t available through streaming) or the entire boxed set at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/michellambert.bandcamp.com\/album\/ars-transmutatoria-orange\" target=\"_blank\">his Bandcamp page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=1307856105\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless><a href=\"https:\/\/michellambert.bandcamp.com\/album\/ars-transmutatoria-orange\">Ars Transmutatoria Orange by Michel Lambert<\/a><\/iframe>\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=990433249\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless><a href=\"https:\/\/michellambert.bandcamp.com\/album\/ars-transmutatoria-bronze\">Ars Transmutatoria Bronze by Michel Lambert<\/a><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=339225373\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michellambert.bandcamp.com\/album\/ars-transmutatoria-rouge\">Ars Transmutatoria Rouge by Michel Lambert<\/a><\/iframe><br><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2307658340\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michellambert.bandcamp.com\/album\/ars-transmutatoria-bleu\">Ars Transmutatoria Bleu by Michel Lambert<\/a><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Do we all travel to the same place when we improvise, dream or imagine? Can a visual score allow us to travel to the same imaginal space together? These are the questions at the core of Michel&#8217;s epic Ars Transmutatoria project. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"476\" src=\"https:\/\/nette.ca\/jeannette\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/5-IMG_8529-1024x476.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1752\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nette.ca\/jeannette\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/5-IMG_8529-1024x476.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nette.ca\/jeannette\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/5-IMG_8529-300x140.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nette.ca\/jeannette\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/5-IMG_8529-768x357.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nette.ca\/jeannette\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/5-IMG_8529-1536x714.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/nette.ca\/jeannette\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/5-IMG_8529-2048x952.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">limited edition compact discs include a small hand-cut booklet of reproductions of the scores<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As we travelled the world together, Michel always stops to observe nature around him closely and collected small details that caught his eye. In the same way I collect the energies of the spirits of place through song, he captures it in his visual scores, a multi-media multi-year project of art and music making. It is a logical progression of his Journal des Episodes that began back in the 1980s when he kept a daily diary of symphonic scores with a drawing each day. You can find <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/nette.ca\/jazzfromrant\/episodes\/\" target=\"_blank\">those here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/woYC15jgrT4\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>So how can we bring all this magical energy he has collected to life? His answer is to bring the scores to musicians who respond to the challenge in a series of evocative environments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are some examples of the music created with this intuitive method. For this video, Ars Transmutatoria: Os, he brought this score as well as over forty more to the world renowned <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.labuissonne.com\/Site\/fr\/ind_desktop.php\" target=\"_blank\">Studio la Buissonne<\/a> in France where we met up with our creative musical friends from Barre Phillips&#8217; <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.barrephillips-emir.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">EMIR group<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"801\" src=\"https:\/\/nette.ca\/jeannette\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/1-P_20191206_141710_vHDR_Auto-1024x801.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1566\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nette.ca\/jeannette\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/1-P_20191206_141710_vHDR_Auto-1024x801.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nette.ca\/jeannette\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/1-P_20191206_141710_vHDR_Auto-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nette.ca\/jeannette\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/1-P_20191206_141710_vHDR_Auto-768x601.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nette.ca\/jeannette\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/1-P_20191206_141710_vHDR_Auto.jpg 1156w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is the video with the music and the score blown up for full effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2CCXYJZ4xOA\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Performed by Michel Lambert, drums; Jeannette Lambert, voice; Laurent Charles, sax; Davide Barbarino, sax; Lionel Garcin sax; and Emmanuel Cremer, cello. Recorded at Studio la Buissonne, Pernes les fontaines, France by G\u00e9rard de Haro, December 6, 2019. Mixing and film by myself.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Later in Kyoto during the Gion Matsuri or Festival, Michel composed this visual score from fragments gathered at the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/air-yosuga.jp\/?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\">Artspace Yosuga<\/a> residency. And in December of the same year he brought the score to this immensely talented ensemble of free players in the only remaining Elizabethan Church in London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O3C9PS9O1E0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p><em> Michel Lambert, drums; Caroline Kraabel, saxophone; Adrian Northover, saxophone; Susanna Ferrar, violin; Hyelim Kim, taegum; Jeannette Lambert, voice; Phil Minton, voice and trumpet; Trevor Taylor, vibes; Steve Beresford, piano; Veryan Weston, organ; Steve Noble, drums; John Edwards, acoustic bass. Recorded by Ali Ward. Recorded at the Old Church in Stoke Newington, London England on December 12 2019. Mix, master and film by myself.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"466\" src=\"https:\/\/nette.ca\/jeannette\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/1-oldchurch1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1565\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nette.ca\/jeannette\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/1-oldchurch1.jpg 900w, https:\/\/nette.ca\/jeannette\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/1-oldchurch1-300x155.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nette.ca\/jeannette\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/1-oldchurch1-768x398.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Below are a few videos of other recording sessions from recent years  and these are also in production and created around the evocative scores. To be continued!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rEJV3fZ-ZDU\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eQKw5ijs3c0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>The latest Ars Transmutatoria workshops were recorded in Helsinki and Rome last summer, 2022, and the recordings are now available as well. See <a href=\"https:\/\/nette.ca\/jeannette\/2023\/03\/21\/ars-transmutatori-iku-turso\/\">https:\/\/nette.ca\/jeannette\/2023\/03\/21\/ars-transmutatori-iku-turso\/<\/a> and listen here. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=1185214777\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless><a href=\"https:\/\/michellambert.bandcamp.com\/album\/ars-transmutatoria-iku-turso\">Ars Transmutatoria Iku-Turso by Michel Lambert<\/a><\/iframe><br>\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=1157292322\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless><a href=\"https:\/\/michellambert.bandcamp.com\/album\/ars-transmutatoria-primati-primi\">Ars Transmutatoria Primati Primi by Michel Lambert<\/a><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p><em>We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the arts and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Qu\u00e9bec for awarding funding for various stages of these projects.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Michel&#8217;s Ars Transmutatoria virtual museum! 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