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, document or archive as his primary source. He has released CDs on the Tzadik, Sub Rosa and Brocoli labels. He writes scores for the L’Instant donné, Les Cris de Paris and Ictus ensembles. He regularly collaborates 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 edition of the Festival d’Automne à Paris.

Her residency project is devoted to writing the score for Lady F., a dramatic musical work for voice (mezzo-soprano) and ensemble, based on a libretto by Pierre Senges. The plot revolves around the character who gives the piece its title (F. for Fenice), a successful pop singer who is seen in her dressing room just before a concert, and who, for some mysterious reason, refuses to go on stage. A decision that sends shockwaves through the globalized world of networks. With this work, the composer projects into the realm of fiction the issues that recur in his work: the interplay between presence and absence, the musicality of the spoken word, the influence of pop and rock music…