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Dans le cadre de la journée dédiée à Erik Satie, le film Sisters with Transistors (2020) de Lisa Rovner retraçant l’histoire des pionnières de la musique électronique sera projeté, en présence de la réalisatrice.
Le film met en avant les femmes qui ont exploré les possibilités du son en dehors des instruments traditionnels, redéfinissant le paysage sonore du XXᵉ siècle. Leur travail a permis d’inventer une nouvelle manière d’écouter, où la technologie et l’humain se rencontrent.
Cette démarche entre en résonance avec celle d’Erik Satie (1866-1925), compositeur qui a brisé les conventions de son temps pour créer un art minimaliste, ironique et libre. Dès la fin du XIXᵉ siècle, Satie a imaginé une musique qui dépasse les formes classiques, anticipant une conception de la musique comme expérience sensorielle, environnement sonore et geste conceptuel. Ses œuvres — des Gymnopédies aux Musiques d’ameublement — ont ouvert la voie à une nouvelle façon de percevoir et de vivre la musique.
This screening will weave a link between two avant-gardes: that of Satie, who brought music closer to everyday life, and that of female electronic composers, who liberated sound from the constraints of instrument and genre. Both contributed to rethinking music and the way we listen to it.
Synopsis
Sisters with Transistors is the unsung and remarkable story of the pioneering women of electronic music, composers who embraced machines and their liberating technologies to radically transform the way we produce and listen to music today. The film traces a new history of electronic music through these visionary women whose radical experiments with machines redefined the boundaries of music, including Clara Rockmore, Daphne Oram, Bebe Barron, Pauline Oliveros, Delia Derbyshire, Maryanne Amacher, Eliane Radigue, Suzanne Ciani and Laurie Spiegel.
Narrated by Laurie Anderson.
Lisa Rovner
Lisa Rovner is a London-based artist and filmmaker. All her creative projects, whether short films, music videos, commercials or art exhibitions, are bound together by her fascination with archives and sound, as well as by her profound aspiration to transform politics and philosophy into cinematic spectacle. Her films have been shown in art venues and cinemas around the world. She is currently working on a multi-episode comedy about the art world and a TV series about revolutionary architecture. Sisters with Transistors is her first feature-length documentary.
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Thursday, December 11
Salle Cinéma Michel Piccoli
8:00 pm
In the presence of director Lisa Rovner and Vittoria Bonifati, director of Villa Lontana
VO English with Italian subtitles
Free (reservation coming soon)
Vexations 840
11.12.2025
