Improvised musics & Contemporary repertoire

Dronescape 6.2 Oneirology 3

Improvisation & électroacoustique

Oscar Van Dellen, Henri Tournier
Oscar van Dellen

Oscar van Dillen and Henri Tournier met in 1996 at Codarts Rotterdam, where they were colleagues for over two decades. After their intense involvement in pedagogy and teaching activities, they now created space for this artistic collaboration. Surprisingly, this collaboration started during the second year of online teaching, just when they did not actually meet each other weekly anymore, due to a period of online teaching, faced by the world Covid-19 crisis since spring 2020.

Oneirology turned out to be an excellent way to keep the contact alive and the artistic link strong. As Henri Tournier’s contract with Codarts ended in 2021, the project helped him to create a more positive conclusion to 27 years of teaching in Rotterdam, especially since the final 2 years of online classes was not the most inspiring and easy ending!

Oscar van Dillen shared his project with Henri Tournier and invited him to the collaboration. After a few first tries and experimentations, and a few months later during the summer of 2021, he prepared himself to record the long

improvisation of almost one hour needed for the project in one go, two single takes: the first take on the C transverse flute, and the second on the octobass flute, a beautiful one from the French flute maker Jean-Yves Roosen, with a huge tessiture of 3 octaves, the lower note being an A one minor third lower than the lowest C of the violoncello.

Tournier sent his recording to van Dillen who performed an impressive mixing, mastering, and producing job, finally integrating the instrumental and electronic sound worlds, with the result sounding like a live concert recording of a trio. Meanwhile the two artists kept in touch online up to the end of the full achievement of the creation.

DUO HYKSOS

Henri Tournier et Michel Gastaud
Tympani

Duo Hyksos - répertoire contemporain Henri Tournier & Michel Gastaud - flûtes & percussions

LA CHANCE DE L’ÉPERVIER Trio Hardy-Tournier-Roy

Pierrick Hardy, Henri Tournier, Guillaume Roy

LA CHANCE DE L’ÉPERVIER
Trio Hardy-Tournier-Roy
Improvisations
Pierrick Hardy-guitares/clarinette, Henri Tournier-bansuri-s/flûtes/octobasse, Guillaume Roy-violon alto
(à paraître)