Pierre-Yves Macé

Pierre-Yves Macé (1980, France) is a composer. His work crosses electroacoustic and instrumental music with a method that borrows from musique concrète, taking recorded sound, the document or file, as a primary source. He releases discs on the Tzadik, Sub Rosa, and Brocoli labels. He writes scores for the L’lnstant donné, Les Cris de Paris, and Ictus ensembles. He collaborates regularly with directors (Sylvain Creuzevault, Joris Lacoste), choreographers (Emmanuelle Hunh, Liz Santoro, and Pierre Godard), and writers (Pierre Senges, Mathieu Larnaudie). His music was the subject of a Portrait for the 2023 Paris Autumn Festival.

His residency project is devoted to writing the score of Lady F., a dramatic musical work for voice (mezzo-soprano) and ensemble, with a libretto by Pierre Senges. The plot develops around the character who gives the piece its title (F. for Fenice), a successful pop singer, whom we see in her dressing room just before a concert, and who, for some mysterious reason, refuses to go on stage, a decision that causes a shock wave in the globalized world of networks. With this piece, the composer will project the recurrent issues present in his work – the interplay between presence and absence, the musicality of the spoken word, the influence of pop and rock music – in fictional form.

Portrait © Thomas Jean Henri