DOÉUN

tracklist: 1. DO™UN (56:24) https://soundcloud.com/audiomer-music/mireille-capelle-doun-exerpt All music composed by Mireille Capelle With HERMESensemble (musicians: Peter Merckx, Marc Tooten, Stijn Saveniers, Karin De Fleyt, Geert Callaert, Melike Tarhan, and Osama Abdulrasol) Mastered by Jack Allett Front image?: Anish Kapoor, White Dark VIII, 2000, Fiberglass and paint. ˆ Anish Kapoor, 2017. Produced with the support of the Flemish Community Design by Jeroen Wille Architecture Sonore composed for the Úexhibition INTUITION curated by Axel Vervoordt and Daniela Ferretti, Venice, Palazzo Fortuny, 2017. Exhibition organized by Axel & May ÚVervoordt Foundation and Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia. The world of Mireille Capelle is one of music and theatre. She has performed as a singer in numerous European opera houses, under the artistic direction of the foremost stage directors and conductors. Mireille Capelle is singing professor at the Ghent School of Arts and member of the artistic board of hermesensemble. She has a particular affinity with contemporary music and art, characterized by many encounters with the most important contemporary composers. DO™UN is an šarchitecture sonore› (šsonic architecture›) composed for the Úexhibition INTUITION (2017) curated by Axel Vervoordt and Daniela Ferretti in Venice. ÚMireilles sound scapings are electronic sculptures to be performed as a live format. DO™UN was presented as a live installation by Mireille Capelle and HERMESÚensemble with visual artist Angel Vergara at Palazzo Fortuny in May 2017. Inspiration for DO™UN comes from the philosophy of the Greek philosopher Democritus and his ideas about cosmology and the void. DO™UN is a one-hour piece characterized by rich sonic layers Úembedded in a drony atmosphere. A very intuitive piece. Mireille Capelle in her words about the piece: Even though when I talk about it, I ?nd that intuition is closer to mind than instinct, the sound architecture DO™UN, created for ÚIntuition, seems to prove the opposite. This piece is very sensory. ÚPerhaps Úintuition is what most closely connects visual to auditory art. Sound needs the sensitivity of the physical body to receive intuitive auditory information. As if listening to the invisible is really a human act, a human need. Something that is within us and that we inevitably seek, either consciously or unconsciously. The rhythm that is often used for the communication of ancient peoples with the invisible universe, and that goes against our rationality, is present in the installation. The meaning of the call, the sense of water and ?re, a predominance of the colours Si and Fa. Yes, there is a lot of ?re and a lot of water in Do™un™s waves. Clear yellow ?ame. Biography Mireille Capelle appeared in various films and plays, as in an impressive number of operatic roles Úincluding Wagnerian parts such as Eva and Kundry, or ÚSalome and Der Komponist (Richard Straus) and a slew of French characters from Charlotte and ÚMetella to Jeanne d™Arc (Jeann d™Arc au bûcher, by ÚHonegger). In parallel she developped a large concert Úrepertoire including main sacred and secular works from early baroque to contemporary music. She sang under the baton of Marc Minkowski, Jos Van ÚImmerseel, ÚMassimo Zanetti, Sylvain Cambreling, Seiji Ozawa, Silvio Varviso „and was directed by Robert Carsen, Guy Joosten, Andrea Breth, ÚKrzysztof Warlikowski, ÚAlvis Hermanis„ Mireille Capelle belongs to the most versatile singers of her generation. She manages to combine most intimate singing as a classical recitalist and opera singeer with pioneering all round šperformances› as a vocalist, Úcomposer and soundscaper. Her apport to contemporary music is enormous, including fruitful encounters with composers such as Cage, Crumb, Carter, Maxwell ÚDavis, Kagel, Battistelli, Sciarrino, Brewaeys, ÚHubber, Wim ÚHenderickx„ Furthermore she is linked to the HERMESensemble as a member of the artistic committee and performer. Her sound scapings also defined as Sonic Architecture, are electronic sculptures to be performed as a live format. The first one, Kinesis Akinetos, was created at the art community Kanaal Axel Vervoordt (B), beneath the Anish Kapoor installation entitled šAt the age of the World›. Nefesh and Ruach were created at the šContemporary Music Festival› in Liège (B). Anello and Tra at Palazzo Fortuny in Venice, eventually Naga had its première in Paris. As a Professor at the Royal school of arts from Gent she has since many years largely contributed to the all round vocal education of the next generation singers. Discography  _x0007_Mireille Capelle, Anello. Naga. Sunyata (Triple CD set, audioMER., 2009)  _x0007_Mireille Capelle with HERMESensemble, Aurum (CD, Inspiratum, 2015)  _x0007_Mireille Capelle, DO™UN (CD, audioMER., 2017)