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2022 - 2023
Musical composition
Born in France in 1991, Samir Amarouch is a composer and guitarist. He studied guitar at the Conservatoire de Boulogne-Billancourt and musicology at the Sorbonne. In 2015, he was admitted to the Paris Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse. The transposition of sounds from natural, urban and technological environments is one of the major sources of his compositional work. Inspired by structuralist, minimalist and spectral currents, as well as traditional oriental and electronic music, his latest works focus on the perception of time and rhythm, and on the ambiguity between timbre and harmony. Winner of several international prizes, including the Ernst Von Siemens Foundation Composition Prize in 2020, his music has been performed by the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Orchestre National de France, the Ensemble Modern and the Ensemble InterContemporain.
His research project at Villa Médicis is devoted to the realization of a cycle of works whose instrumentation is derived from his piece Electronica-B minor crush composed for 21 musicians, featuring microtonal accordions, harpsichord and electric guitar. Acceleration, deceleration, pulse inflections, groove, rhythmic microvariations and sensations are at the heart of this work, which will be combined with choreographic research in collaboration with a dancer-choreographer, to create a hybrid music/movement work.