Laval, Gilles - 100 Guitares Sur un Batteau Ivre / 100 Guitars on a Drunken Boat CD

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Guitarist, educator, composer and spectacle organizer Gilles Laval puts on large-scale musical events in cities all over Europe. Each event is worked on over a six month period and ultimately presented with the public seated in the middle of four stages, each holding 25 guitarists, as Gilles and co-conductors direct 100 guitarists of varying ages and skills through music written to work in such events!

“I wanted to find an unconventional form of writing that was accessible to as many people as possible,” Laval explains. For many, the idea of an orchestra made up of 100 electric guitars will be revolutionary enough, but there are precedents for some of Laval’s innovations—and he was in on some of them. He was the motivating factor behind Fred Frith’s Impur, which called for an ensemble of 100 and emerged from the avant-rock mastermind’s extended residency at the National Music School in Villeurbanne, where Laval teaches.

Built into 100 Guitares sur un Bateau Ivre, Laval explains, are multiple levels of complexity; relative novices can comfortably take part (with some preparation), while experienced professionals will have their skills as well as their preconceptions challenged.

“Bringing together 100 people in a common project is no small feat,” the composer explains. “Once the 100 guitarists are assembled,” he continues, “I propose a work period of approximately six months...things take time to settle in, and the process is complicated, but it works!”



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