Sebastian Rivas
Franco-Argentine composer born 29 July 1975 in Châtenay-Malabry (near Paris).
Sebastian Rivas started out performing jazz, rock, and improvised music before turning to composition. In 1997, he emigrated from Argentina to France, his country of birth, to study with Sergio Ortega and Ivan Fedele. He participated in several masterclasses, notably at IRCAM, Centre Acanthes, Royaumont, and with the Ictus Ensemble, during which he studied with Klaus Huber, Brian Ferneyhough, Jonathan Harvey, Michael Jarrell, and François Paris. In 2004, he undertook the IRCAM Cursus (IRCAM’s composition and computer music course), allowing him further study with Philippe Leroux.
Rivas has received commissions from the French Ministry of Culture, Radio France, IRCAM, the Aix-en-Provence Festival, GRAME, CIRM, Muse en Circuit, and the Foundations Salabert and Royaumont. His works have been widely performed in European festivals by ensembles and soloists including Christophe Desjardins, Pierre Strauch, Ensemble intercontemporain, Jeunes Solistes, Percussions de Strasbourg, Instant Donné, 2e2m, Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra, Court-Circuit, and Multilatérale.
He received the ISCM Prize in 2004, was selected for an Ensemble intercontemporain “Tremplin” commission in 2008, and was awarded the Prix Italia in 2012 for his radio opera, La Nuit Hallucinée. His opera, Aliados, with a libretto by Esteban Buch and directed by Antoine Gindt, was premiered in June 2013 at ManiFeste.
Sebastian Rivas was a resident at Villa Medici from 2013 to 2015, and at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris in 2015. In 2017, he started the arts/science doctoral programme at CIRM-National Centre of Musical Creation. In June 2018, his work We must, for contrabass and electronics, was premiered at ManiFest. He was awarded the Silver Lion at the Venice Biennale International Festival of Contemporary Music in October 2018.
In September 2018, Rivas became co-director, along with Anoux Avisse, of the GRAME-National Centre of Musical Creation.
© Ircam-Centre Pompidou, 2018
Sources
Site personnel du Sebastian Rivas (voir ressources documentaires).
- Solo (excluding voice)
- Sanftestes Gestez -1-a- educational piece for flute (2003), 4 mn, Inédit
- Sanftestes Gestez -2 for flute (2005), 8 mn, Inédit
- elec Tlön for augmented viola and live processing (2005), 6 mn, Inédit
- elec ircam Ircam cursus Uqbar for augmented cello and live electronics (2006), 10 mn, Inédit [program note]
- Immersion for accordion and electroacoustic device (2008), 8 mn, Inédit
- Entführ for accordion (2011), 8 mn
- I sing the body electric for accordion (2011), 8 mn
- Best Worse No Farther for prepared vibraphone (2012), 10 mn
- elec Sous l'écorce for augmented viola and electronics (2011-2012), 17 mn
- elec ircam We must for double bass and electronics (2017-2018), 25 mn, Inédit [program note]
- Chamber music
- Cinq Haikü for small ensemble (1999), 11 mn, Inédit
- Excerpts from Zeugma for string quartet (2000-2001), 7 mn, Inédit
- Cinq nouveaux Haikü for small ensemble (2003), 13 mn, Inédit
- Entre… for guitar, violin and piano (2003), 6 mn, Inédit
- l’ombre d’un doute… for clarinet, piano, violin and cello (2004), 6 mn 30 s, Inédit
- delle città invisibili... for six keyboard percussions (2006), 10 mn, Inédit
- épars… for guitar, double bass and percussion (2006), 6 mn, Inédit
- Doubting Shadows for clarinet, piano, violin, cello and percussion (2007), 7 mn 30 s, Inédit
- Trio à cordes (2007), 8 mn 30 s, Inédit
- elec Orbis Tertius for string quartet and electroacoustic device (2008), 15 mn, Inédit [program note]
- elec stage Corps Déployés for three dancers, percussion, accordion, electronics and sensors (2010), 60 mn
- Hollow (in memoriam Ch. B) for bass clarinet, cello and double bass (2011), 8 mn
- Ficciones Hrönir, for string quartet (2012), 15 mn
- Stains in the Carpet for string quintet (2014), Le Chant du Monde
- White Surface, a piano autopsy for prepared piano, a pianist and a percussionist (2015), Le Chant du Monde
- Tribology string quartet n° 2 (2016), Le Chant du Monde
- Instrumental ensemble music
- Una sombra ya pronto seras… for orchestra (2002), 7 mn, Inédit
- Una noche blanca for three spatialized saxophone ensembles (2005), 6 mn, Inédit
- Lineas dispersas for bass clarinet, flute in G, trombone, viola, cello and percussion (2008), 7 mn, Inédit
- Splendid Isolation study for 21 instruments (2008), 6 mn, Inédit
- elec Brisure Spontanée de Symétrie for ensemble and electroacoustics (2009), 15 mn, Inédit
- elec Esodo Infinito, la scomparsa delle luciole for large orchestra and electronics (2015), 14 mn, Le Chant du Monde
- Vocal music and instrument(s)
- Madrigal em Fado for soprano and two bass clarinets (2000), 6 mn 30 s, Inédit
- Seikilos's Epitaphe for soprano, countertenor, tenor and theorbo (2003), 6 mn 30 s, Inédit
- Soulèvement for two tenors, baritone, countertenor and piano (2011), 6 mn
- elec La Nuit Hallucinée radio opera for narrator, soprano, ensemble and electronics (2012), 38 mn
- elec ircam stage Aliados a real-time opera (2010-2013), 1 h 10 mn
- Blue Ahead for bass clarinet, trombone, viola, accordion and soprano (2013), 10 mn
- elec Le Plancher de Jeannot monodrama (2013), 40 mn
- elec stage Oblivion - Vanitas Sonora musical theater show for two voices, three instrumentalists and sound installation (2016), 40 mn, Le Chant du Monde
- Ruines tour for an exhibition (2017), 40 mn
- Electronic music / fixed media / mechanical musical instruments
- elec ircam stage Breath ballet music, electronics and real-time treatments (2006), 13 mn, Inédit [program note]
- elec stage Red Crab in the Landscape for multimedia device for an actor (2007), 40 mn, Inédit
- elec Red Crab in the Landscape soundtrack of the short film directed by Florent Trochel (2007), 16 mn, partition retirée du catalogue
- elec Sublimated Music sound installation (2014)
- elec Domestic Policy sound installation 4.0 (2015)
- elec Doppelgänger "Claridge Hotel 1954" sound installation on the Cage/Boulez correspondence (2017), 12 mn
- Unspecified instrumentation
- How to meditate (2013), 3 mn
- In vain (2013), 6 mn
- État critique sound installation (2014)
- Les Recluses performative sound installation (2014)
- 2018
- elec ircam We must for double bass and electronics, 25 mn, Inédit [program note]
- 2017
- elec Doppelgänger "Claridge Hotel 1954" sound installation on the Cage/Boulez correspondence, 12 mn
- Ruines tour for an exhibition, 40 mn
- 2016
- elec stage Oblivion - Vanitas Sonora musical theater show for two voices, three instrumentalists and sound installation, 40 mn, Le Chant du Monde
- Tribology string quartet n° 2, Le Chant du Monde
- 2015
- elec Domestic Policy sound installation 4.0
- elec Esodo Infinito, la scomparsa delle luciole for large orchestra and electronics, 14 mn, Le Chant du Monde
- White Surface, a piano autopsy for prepared piano, a pianist and a percussionist, Le Chant du Monde
- 2014
- Les Recluses performative sound installation
- Stains in the Carpet for string quintet, Le Chant du Monde
- elec Sublimated Music sound installation
- État critique sound installation
- 2013
- elec ircam stage Aliados a real-time opera , 1 h 10 mn
- Blue Ahead for bass clarinet, trombone, viola, accordion and soprano, 10 mn
- How to meditate, 3 mn
- In vain, 6 mn
- elec Le Plancher de Jeannot monodrama, 40 mn
- 2012
- Best Worse No Farther for prepared vibraphone, 10 mn
- Ficciones Hrönir, for string quartet, 15 mn
- elec La Nuit Hallucinée radio opera for narrator, soprano, ensemble and electronics, 38 mn
- elec Sous l'écorce for augmented viola and electronics, 17 mn
- 2011
- Entführ for accordion, 8 mn
- Hollow (in memoriam Ch. B) for bass clarinet, cello and double bass, 8 mn
- I sing the body electric for accordion, 8 mn
- Soulèvement for two tenors, baritone, countertenor and piano, 6 mn
- 2010
- elec stage Corps Déployés for three dancers, percussion, accordion, electronics and sensors, 60 mn
- 2009
- elec Brisure Spontanée de Symétrie for ensemble and electroacoustics, 15 mn, Inédit
- 2008
- Immersion for accordion and electroacoustic device, 8 mn, Inédit
- Lineas dispersas for bass clarinet, flute in G, trombone, viola, cello and percussion, 7 mn, Inédit
- elec Orbis Tertius for string quartet and electroacoustic device, 15 mn, Inédit [program note]
- Splendid Isolation study for 21 instruments, 6 mn, Inédit
- 2007
- Doubting Shadows for clarinet, piano, violin, cello and percussion, 7 mn 30 s, Inédit
- elec stage Red Crab in the Landscape for multimedia device for an actor, 40 mn, Inédit
- elec Red Crab in the Landscape soundtrack of the short film directed by Florent Trochel, 16 mn, partition retirée du catalogue
- Trio à cordes, 8 mn 30 s, Inédit
- 2006
- elec ircam stage Breath ballet music, electronics and real-time treatments, 13 mn, Inédit [program note]
- elec ircam Ircam cursus Uqbar for augmented cello and live electronics, 10 mn, Inédit [program note]
- delle città invisibili... for six keyboard percussions, 10 mn, Inédit
- épars… for guitar, double bass and percussion, 6 mn, Inédit
- 2005
- Sanftestes Gestez -2 for flute, 8 mn, Inédit
- elec Tlön for augmented viola and live processing, 6 mn, Inédit
- Una noche blanca for three spatialized saxophone ensembles, 6 mn, Inédit
- 2004
- l’ombre d’un doute… for clarinet, piano, violin and cello, 6 mn 30 s, Inédit
- 2003
- Cinq nouveaux Haikü for small ensemble, 13 mn, Inédit
- Entre… for guitar, violin and piano, 6 mn, Inédit
- Sanftestes Gestez -1-a- educational piece for flute, 4 mn, Inédit
- Seikilos's Epitaphe for soprano, countertenor, tenor and theorbo, 6 mn 30 s, Inédit
- 2002
- Una sombra ya pronto seras… for orchestra, 7 mn, Inédit
- 2001
- Excerpts from Zeugma for string quartet, 7 mn, Inédit
- 2000
- Madrigal em Fado for soprano and two bass clarinets, 6 mn 30 s, Inédit
- 1999
- Cinq Haikü for small ensemble, 11 mn, Inédit
Bibliographie
- Dominique BOUCHOT, Esteban BUCH, Antoine GINDT, Laurent PROST, Stéphane ROTH, « Aliados, Un opéra du temps réel », dans T&M Théâtre et musique, revue n° 7, septembre 2012, téléchargeable sur http://www.theatre-musique.com/Publish/articlesrevue/24/theatresetmusiques7.pdf
Site internet
- Site personnel du compositeur, http://www.sebastian-rivas.com/
- SoundCloud du compositeur, https://soundcloud.com/rivas-sebastian
(liens vérifiés en janvier 2018).