Marie Ythier is a graduate of the CNSMD de Lyon and the CNSM de Paris and performs as a soloist worldwide, often under renowned conductors like Pierre Boulez.
Recording & Production
The album offers two versions of each piece: a binaural version for headphone listening and a transaural version for loudspeaker listening, both reproducing the spatialization of electronic effects.
Performer Biography
Marie Ythier, the cellist on this album, is a classical musician who regularly collaborates with composers of her generation and has two previous albums to her credit.
Composer's Artistic Vision
The composers featured on this album, though influenced by French artistic culture, bring diverse cultural heritages to their singular, innovative, intense, and poetic pieces.
Album & Artwork
The album title, "le geste augmenté" (the augmented gesture), refers to the musical research of the 20th and 21st centuries concerning the augmentation of a musical gesture by electronic sound possibilities.
Recording & Production
This album is an extreme innovation, constituting the first binaural and transaural version of pieces for solo instrument and real-time electronics to be commercially released worldwide.
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