Jacques Burtin

Jacques Burtin

Jacques Burtin at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival
Background information
Birth name Jacques René Carlos Burtin
Born (1955-11-10) November 10, 1955
Paris, France
Genres Contemporary classical, Ambient, Experimental music
Occupation(s) Composer, improviser, writer, film director, (experimental film, documentary film)
Labels Bayard Musique,
Mara Productions,
Studio SM
Notable instruments
kora
Gravi-kora
Piano

Jacques Burtin (born November 10, 1955) is a French composer, writer and filmmaker.

Biography

After studying Literature and Art at La Sorbonne (Paris), he was introduced to the kora by brother Dominique Fournier at the Abbey of Bec Hellouin (Normandy, France) and by brother Dominique Catta, composer and choirmaster of the Keur Moussa Monastery (Senegal). He began to compose for the kora, solo pieces as well as duets with Western instruments.

His works are inspired by poets like Grace Schulman and Christian Bobin, spiritual authors like St. John of the Cross or Etty Hillesum, writers like Georges Simenon or Hermann Hesse, painters like Henri Matisse or Jean-Michel Basquiat, or photographers like Nan Goldin or Diane Arbus. He collaborates with artists, dancers and poets and conceives interdisciplinary performances.

Jacques Burtin is also involved in improvised music and has given concerts based on improvisation with harpist Susan Allen (musician),[1] French panflute player Jean-Claude Mara,[2] Japanese koto player Damien Harada,[3] and French saxophonist Tullia Morand.[4]

In 2004, he was invited by the Paul Verlaine University (Metz, France) to participate to the Colloque sur l'Art du Peu (Seminar on the Art of the Few) : he gave a solo kora performance based on haikus and wrote La Tentation du peu. (The Temptation of the Few).

May 12, 2006, his music was featured among the works of twelve composers from around the world in Sonic Channels, a concert hosted by the New School University and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

Between 2002 and 2012, he gave seminars on Improvisation and Interdisciplinary Creation in the Faculty of Fine Arts School of the University of Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain, in collaboration with Spanish Choreographer Alicia Gómez Linares.

Since 2006, Jacques Burtin also plays the gravi-kora and composes for this instrument. He gives kora and gravi-kora master classes and works on kora pedadogy.

Jacques Burtin writes, produces and directs poetic and experimental short films as well as documentaries on contemporary artists. His film "Le Dialogue des Ombres" ("The Dialogue of Shadows") was selected for the "Short Film Corner" of the Festival de Cannes 2012.

Musical works

Kora sheet music (fragment of the score of One Thousand Sources, for solo kora, by Jacques Burtin).
Jacques Burtin playing the gravi-kora, Ireland, August 2006

Poetic, Experimental and Documentary films

Film poster for the Jacques Burtin film "Le Dernier Kodachrome" ("The Last Kodachrome")

Writings

Discography

Jacques Burtin playing the kora at the Collège des Bernardins, Paris, October 2, 2010.

Sheet music

References

  1. ↑ CD "Renaissance", 2007; six filmed improvisations may be seen at :
  2. ↑ Concert at the Cathedral of Corbeil-Essonnes (France), April 1, 1995, with Jacques Burtin, kora, Jean-Claude Mara, panflute, and Jean Dahais, organ. Jacques Burtin and Jean-Claude Mara also recorded the improvisation-based Cd Psalmodies in 1995.
  3. ↑ Japan Tour, 1998 (Tokyo, Kôbe, Kisarazu, Amagasaki, Tama, Kobushizawa); concerts in Saint-Gervais-Saint-Protais Church (Paris), March 15, 1998, and March 13, 1999. Jacques Burtin and Damien Harada recorded several improvisations in the Cd L'Amour – Musiques pour Thérèse (1996). A kora and koto improvisation can also be heard in the Cd Le Jeu des Perles de Verre (in the 3 Cd Box Set Le Jour des merveilles published in 2009).
  4. ↑ Concert in La Charlotte de l'Isle, Paris, February 12, 2010. Videos: Saxophone & Kora Improvisation: – 48 Faces: – Hot Couture :
  5. ↑ First performance: Florian Wallez (viola) et Jacques Burtin (kora) in the Church of Notre-Dame-du-Travail, Paris, December 23, 1988.
  6. ↑ First performance: Saint-Gervais-Saint-Protais Church, Paris, March 19, 1989.
  7. ↑ First performance: Marie-Christine Nahon, Trinity Church, Paris, October 21, 1992
  8. ↑ Jacques Burtin composed two other works inspired by Matisse : Tristesse du Roi (Sorrow of the King), for recorder and kora, and La Porte-fenêtre ouverte (French Window at Collioure), for solo ten-string guitar.
  9. ↑ Love – Music for Thérèse was inspired by the life and writings of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux.
  10. ↑ Vous m'appellerez Petite Thérèse (You shall call me Little Thérèse), written by Michael Lonsdale, inspired by the life of Sainte Thérèse de Lisieux, directed by Michael Lonsdale, with Lila Redouane, Françoise Thuriès and Michael Lonsdale, Palais des Congrès, Paris, 1997, and Crypte Saint Sulpice, Paris, 1997–1998.
  11. ↑ Les sept vies d'Homère Petitbois with Bernard Métraux and Jacques Burtin (kora, piano), directed by Paul Borne, Maison de la Poésie, Paris, 1998, and Théâtre des Roches, Montreuil, 1999.
  12. ↑ First performance: Iñaki Alberdi (accordion) and Jacques Burtin (kora), Rentería, Spain, October 28, 1999.
  13. ↑ First performance: Iñigo Coto (violin) and Jacques Burtin (kora, electric guitar) at the Centro Juan Antxieta, Bilbao, March 15, 2001. Eloge de la Lumière was inspired by the works of Eduardo Chillida.
  14. ↑ Apuntes de Eduardo Chillida – A Poetic, Musical and Choreographic Meditation on the Creative Act, texts by Eduardo Chillida and Saint Teresa of Ávila, conception and music by Jacques Burtin, was first performed in the Lecture Hall of the Universidad de Deusto (Bilbao), May 17, 2001, by Roberto Bienzobas (narrator), Iñigo Coto (violin), Jacques Burtin (kora) and Alicia Gómez Linares (dancer).
  15. ↑ Carta a mi madre won the Tiflos Price of Journalism 2003 for the best documentary film on Spanish National Television, the Stalker Price 2004 at the Stalker International Film Festival for Human Rights Watch (Moscow) and the 2004 Grand Prix at the International Disability Film Festival "Breaking Down Barriers".
  16. ↑ Lumière du monde was dedicated to painter Alexandre Hollan. It was performed by Jacques Burtin at the Galerie Vieille du Temple, Paris, May 15, 2002. Jacques Burtin and Alexandre Hollan met at the beginning of the nineties. Jacques Burtin gave several concerts along the years at the painter exhibitions, and he directed a documentary on Alexandre Hollan: L'autre regard (The Other View).
  17. ↑ The first version of this work accompanied Maria Jesús Cueto’s installation El Palacio de Medusa (Castello della Rocca di San Giorgio, Lombardy, July 2004), a work the Spanish artist dedicated to the victims of 3/11 Madrid bombings. Your Shadow Will Shine – Requiem Notebook was written in four languages (Spanish, French, English and Japanese). It has six movements: 1. Requiem (The Words / Las Palabras) – 2. Dies irae (The Seconds / Los Segundos) – 3. Liber scriptus (Wandering Dreams / Sueños sin rumbo) – 4. Rex tremendae (Mad Wind / Viento loco) – 5. Confutatis (Powder and Love / La Pólvora y el Amor) – 6. Lux aeterna (The Promise / La Promesa). Written, produced and edited by Jacques Burtin. With the voices of Mercedes Albaina, Maëlise Blosse, Kô Iwatsu, Junko Minobe, Françoise Murillo and Jacques Burtin. Requiem for a child voice performed by Lucía Gandarias. Sounds of 3/11 Madrid provided by TVE (Spanish National Broadcasting). Texts by Bruno Dellinger, Miguel Hernández, Jacques Burtin, and Japanese poets.
  18. ↑ First performance: New York, May 12, 2006, at Sonic Channels, a concert hosted by the New School University and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Program: ; Jacques Burtin playing One Thousand Sources:
  19. ↑ Days of Wonder: New and Selected Poems. Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin. 2002. ISBN 978-0-618-34082-8.
  20. ↑ These are the seven films : L'Amnésie (on a photograph by Sophie Calle): ; Danseuse(s) espagnole(s) (on Joan Miró's works): ; Le jardin des merveilles (dedicated to Paul Klee) : ; Les Yeux dans les ailes des anges (on the Romanesque paintings of the Catalonian Museum of Art of Barcelona: ; Donner un visage au désespoir (on the photographs of Baudelaire, Nerval et Rimbaud) : ; Dans les forêts profondes (about Max Ernst) : ; La Rime et la raison (about the Menil Collection):
  21. ↑ Une clarté, une voix, un parfum... was performed at the Collège des Bernardins, Paris, October 2, 2010, as a musical counterpoint to the reading of Saint Augustin's Confessions by Sapho and Charles Gonzalès. Program: – Photos:
  22. ↑ This film is at the same time a meditation on Childhood, Time, and Desire, and a succession of selfportraits where the artist appears (or is reincarnated) as a Super 8 mm film projector, a library, or a blue canvas methodically cut into pieces... Autoportraits :
  23. ↑ Transmigration: Transmigration was shown during Filomena Boreckà's exhibition " Fugacidad ", Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid (26 May – June 26, 2005). See document, pages 17 to 21:
  24. ↑ L'autre regard:
  25. ↑ Oxymorons:
  26. ↑ [Ce qui me perd me sauvera at the Internet Movie Database ]
  27. ↑ "Ce qui me perd me sauvera" at the 53rd International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao (Spain, 2011):
  28. ↑ [Le Dernier Kodachrome at the Internet Movie Database ]
  29. ↑ "Le Dernier Kodachrome" European Premiere at the 53rd International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao (Spain, 2011):
  30. ↑ [Le Dialogue des Ombres at the Internet Movie Database ]
  31. ↑ [Le Crime sans fin at the Internet Movie Database ]
  32. ↑ [{{http://zinebi.eus/web/catalogo/lenfant-de-la-republique}}]
  33. ↑ Actes du colloque de Metz 2004, pages 391 to 415. ISBN 978-2-296-06569-7
  34. ↑ Sang céleste (Lettre à Filomena Boreckà) :
  35. ↑ Le Dialogue de la forêt :
  36. ↑ Chemins de l'art, chemins de l'âme – Musique, art et prière:
  37. ↑ De la improvisación:
  38. ↑ Four interviews centered on the formative years of Jacques Burtin. Les Origines - Entretiens avec Marie Zénon :
  39. ↑ Le Jour des merveilles is a 3 CD Box Set reflecting twenty years of work on the kora. It includes Le Jour des merveilles (Days of Wonder), Le Château de l'âme (The Interior Castle) and Le Jeu des perles de verre (The Glass Bead Game).

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