- Price: NTD$300, 600, 900, 1200, 1600, 2000
- For more offers, please visit the ticketing website.
- Weiwuying Co-organiser Program
- Duration is 170 minutes with a 20-minute intermission.
Performed in German with Mandarin Intertitles.
The performance contains nudity scenes, viewer discretion is advised.
- Age guidance 12+
- Latecomers must follow staff instructions for entry and re-entry
- For more offers, please visit the ticketing website.
2023 C-LAB Sound Festival IRCAM Cine-concert Metropolis
The "2023 C-LAB Sound Festival: Diversonics" will pair film director Fritz LANG's classic science fiction movie Metropolis with a movie concert involving a chamber music ensemble consisting of 16 musicians, electronic music, and an immersive sound field. As far as composer Martin MATALON is concerned, the music he has composed for Metropolis, and which bears the same name, is not meant to accompany or enhance the film's visual experience in a complementary role, but is rather intended to stand independently on its own two feet.
Martin MATALON's music develops along with the enfolding plot and visual images, and serves as a vehicle letting viewers experience the story content and interconnected visual flow via their sense of hearing. Apart from the on-site performance of the chamber music ensemble, Mr. MATALON has also increased the dimensions of music and auditory perception, and added elements of electronic music and sound and acoustic design. He has employed computerized pre-production, recording, and mixing steps in conjunction with painstaking acoustic design to ensure that listeners' do not feel that sound is just coming from the direction of the stage, but instead make them feel that they are surrounded by music from all directions, enlarging their musical experience.
At the "2023 C-LAB Sound Festival: Diversonics", the "IRCAM Cine-concert Metropolis" to be given at National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying) on October 15, 2023 will feature an on-site sound design created specifically for the Weiwuying Opera House by the team at France's IRCAM (Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music). Regardless of whether you are a movie fan, music fan, audio fan, or just want to broaden your listening experiences, "IRCAM Cine-conert Metropolis" is absolutely not to be missed!
Creative and Production Team
METROPOLIS (music, 2010)
Composer｜Martin MATALON
Conductor｜CHANG Yin-fang
Ensemble｜TimeArt Studio, Department of Music Taipei National University of the Arts, Taipei Percussion
METROPOLIS (film, 1927)｜Germany
Director｜Fritz LANG
Format｜Black and white, digital restoration (2010)
Running time｜150 minutes
Restoration｜Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation, Wiesbaden
Advised by｜Ministry of Culture
Presenter｜Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab
Curatorial Team｜C-LAB Taiwan Sound Lab, IRCAM Centre-Pompidou
Collaborator｜TimeArt Studio
Co-organiser｜National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying), Taipei Percussion, Department of Music, Taipei National University of the Arts
Artists Introduction
METROPOLIS Composer｜Martin MATALON
Born in Buenos Aires in 1958, Martin MATALON received his Master’s degree from the Juilliard School of Music in 1986. In 1989, having initiated himself in conducting with Jacques-Louis MONOD, he founded Music Mobile, a New York-based ensemble devoted to the contemporary repertoire (1989-96).
In 1993, having settled in Paris, the composer collaborated for the first time with IRCAM and worked on La Rosa profunda, music for an exhibition at the Pompidou Centre on The Universe of Borges. The following year, IRCAM commissioned a new score for the restored version of Fritz LANG's silent film, Metropolis.
His catalogue also includes a large number of chamber and orchestral works, such as Otras Ficciones or Lignes de fuite for large orchestra, …del matiz al color… for cello octet, Monedas de hierro for ensemble and electronics as well as pieces written for a large spectrum of different genres : Musical tales, choreographic works, installations, music with text, horspiels, musical theater, music with mimes…
Begun in 1997, the series of Trames, borderline works between solo concerto writing and chamber music, and the series of Traces, conceived for solo instruments and real time processing, constitutes a sort of compositional diary for their author, they form as well an important part of his catalogue.
Mr. Matalon conducts ensembles regularly and has as well a teaching activity. He was the composer-in-residence with the Orchestre National de Lorraine and the Arsenal de Metz for the years 2003 and 2004. and from 2005 until 2009 he is composer in residence at the electronic studios of La Muse en Circuit.
Conductor｜CHANG Yin-fang
CHANG Yin-fang was the Resident conductor of the Taiwan Philharmonic (NSO) from 2017 to 2022. She is good at various cross-industry collaborations, all of which are well-received. In addition, CHANG is actively involved in the publication of contemporary Asian music works. In 2018, she was invited to conduct the opening concert of the Asia-Pacific Music Festival and premiered the works of several composers. Her recent appearances include conducting new productions, such as The Man with the Compound Eyes and Tannhäuser (chamber version). In recent years, CHANG has been invited to cooperate with Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa, Hong Kong City Chamber Orchestra, Taipei City Chinese Orchestra, National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, Tainan City Symphony Orchestra and Kaohsiung City Symphony Orchestra.
Teams Introduction
IRCAM Centre-Pompidou
IRCAM, the Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music directed by Frank MADLENER, is one of the world's largest public research centers dedicated to both musical expression and scientific research. This unique location where artistic sensibilities collide with scientific and technological innovation brings together over 160 collaborators.
IRCAM's three principal activities — creation, research, transmission — are visible in IRCAM's Parisian concert season, in productions throughout France and abroad, and in two annual rendezvous: ManiFeste that combines an international festival with a multidisciplinary academy and the Vertigo forum that presents technical mutations and their tangible effects on artistic creation.
Founded by Pierre BOULEZ, IRCAM is associated with the Centre Pompidou, under the tutelage of the French Ministry of Culture. The mixed STMS research lab (Sciences and Technologies for Music and Sound), housed by IRCAM, also benefits from the support of the CNRS and Sorbonne University.
In 2020, IRCAM created Ircam Amplify, a spin-off for the commercialization of the institute’s audio innovations. A true interface between state of the art of audio research and the industrial world on a global scale, Ircam Amplify is a major actor in the sound revolution of the 21st century.
C-LAB Taiwan Sound Lab
In 2018, the Ministry of Culture, Taiwan and IRCAM Centre-Pompidou (IRCAM), France signed a letter of intent for cooperation. In 2019, Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB) and IRCAM co-founded the Taiwan Sound Lab (TSL) to promote cross-disciplinary contemporary art-making in Taiwan by drawing from IRCAM's development strategies and operational experiences in the domains of music and sounds.
TSL was founded by adhering to the integration of artistic creation, sciences, technologies, cross-disciplinary practices, and educational research. TSL intends to build an experimental platform which, based on musical sounds, matches technical engineering with creativities across disciplines and art genres. It also conducts resource integration and cross-institutional collaboration; in terms of hardware, a 49.4 channel immersive stereo sound field and a 16-channel immersive stereo sound workstation have been built for artistic experimentations and creations. As for software engineering, TSL continues its cultivation of and exchanges for technicians and talents, including projects of composition, musicology, digital art, sound engineering, and sound recording and processing, which are applied in electronic music-making, computer music production, cross-field exhibitions and performances, and interactive multimedia systems and auditory interface design, attempting to stimulate diverse ideas and creativities of musical sounds, develop multi-level cultural imagination and dialogue for music and sound art in Taiwan, and forge a complete ecosystem chain for innovating media technologies.
Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Foundation
Since it was founded in 1966, the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Foundation has been committed to preserving, maintaining and making accessible a large part of the German film heritage of outstanding cultural and film-historical importance from the beginning of the motion pictures to the beginning of the 1960s, namely 2000 silent films, 1000 sound films and around 3000 short films (advertising, cultural, documentary films).
This means that the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Foundation is one of the central institutions in the media industry for the preservation of film as a cultural asset.
The inventory includes films by important directors such as Fritz Lang, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, Ernst Lubitsch, Detlef Sierck, Helmut Käutner and Wolfgang Staudte, works that are still up-to-date today. In addition to METROPOLIS, which is part of the UNESCO documentary heritage, these include the great classics of German cinema such as DIE NIBELUNGEN, THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI, THE BLUE ANGEL, THE THREE FROM THE GAS STATION, MUNCHHAUSEN, GROSSE FREEDOM NO. 7 and HEROES.
The foundation is located at the Deutsches Filmhaus in Wiesbaden since 2009, which, in addition to the foundation and other film industry institutions, also includes the Murnau Film Theater.
TimeArt Studio
TimeArt Studio is a collaboration of a group of young musicians, who aim to inherit the tradition embedded in contemporary music. They pursue the goal of supporting New Music and giving it appropriate performances. In addition to seeking the fusion between cultures, TimeArt Studio has also explored the relationship between visuals, space and sound through collaboration with artists from different fields, creating projects inspired by local traditions and the most recent technology.
TimeArtStudio has performed in numerous international Music Festival and Arts Festivals, ranging from fully-staged musical theatres to multimedia works to intimate solo performances. It has performed in different countries/places such as the Netherlands, the United States, Chile, China, Macau and Hong Kong.
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© Fritz Lang / Fondation Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
2023 C-LAB Sound Festival IRCAM Cine-concert Metropolis
The "2023 C-LAB Sound Festival: Diversonics" will pair film director Fritz LANG's classic science fiction movie Metropolis with a movie concert involving a chamber music ensemble consisting of 16 musicians, electronic music, and an immersive sound field. As far as composer Martin MATALON is concerned, the music he has composed for Metropolis, and which bears the same name, is not meant to accompany or enhance the film's visual experience in a complementary role, but is rather intended to stand independently on its own two feet.
Martin MATALON's music develops along with the enfolding plot and visual images, and serves as a vehicle letting viewers experience the story content and interconnected visual flow via their sense of hearing. Apart from the on-site performance of the chamber music ensemble, Mr. MATALON has also increased the dimensions of music and auditory perception, and added elements of electronic music and sound and acoustic design. He has employed computerized pre-production, recording, and mixing steps in conjunction with painstaking acoustic design to ensure that listeners' do not feel that sound is just coming from the direction of the stage, but instead make them feel that they are surrounded by music from all directions, enlarging their musical experience.
At the "2023 C-LAB Sound Festival: Diversonics", the "IRCAM Cine-concert Metropolis" to be given at National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying) on October 15, 2023 will feature an on-site sound design created specifically for the Weiwuying Opera House by the team at France's IRCAM (Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music). Regardless of whether you are a movie fan, music fan, audio fan, or just want to broaden your listening experiences, "IRCAM Cine-conert Metropolis" is absolutely not to be missed!
Creative and Production Team
METROPOLIS (music, 2010)
Composer｜Martin MATALON
Conductor｜CHANG Yin-fang
Ensemble｜TimeArt Studio, Department of Music Taipei National University of the Arts, Taipei Percussion
METROPOLIS (film, 1927)｜Germany
Director｜Fritz LANG
Format｜Black and white, digital restoration (2010)
Running time｜150 minutes
Restoration｜Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation, Wiesbaden
Advised by｜Ministry of Culture
Presenter｜Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab
Curatorial Team｜C-LAB Taiwan Sound Lab, IRCAM Centre-Pompidou
Collaborator｜TimeArt Studio
Co-organiser｜National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying), Taipei Percussion, Department of Music, Taipei National University of the Arts
Artists Introduction
METROPOLIS Composer｜Martin MATALON
Born in Buenos Aires in 1958, Martin MATALON received his Master’s degree from the Juilliard School of Music in 1986. In 1989, having initiated himself in conducting with Jacques-Louis MONOD, he founded Music Mobile, a New York-based ensemble devoted to the contemporary repertoire (1989-96).
In 1993, having settled in Paris, the composer collaborated for the first time with IRCAM and worked on La Rosa profunda, music for an exhibition at the Pompidou Centre on The Universe of Borges. The following year, IRCAM commissioned a new score for the restored version of Fritz LANG's silent film, Metropolis.
His catalogue also includes a large number of chamber and orchestral works, such as Otras Ficciones or Lignes de fuite for large orchestra, …del matiz al color… for cello octet, Monedas de hierro for ensemble and electronics as well as pieces written for a large spectrum of different genres : Musical tales, choreographic works, installations, music with text, horspiels, musical theater, music with mimes…
Begun in 1997, the series of Trames, borderline works between solo concerto writing and chamber music, and the series of Traces, conceived for solo instruments and real time processing, constitutes a sort of compositional diary for their author, they form as well an important part of his catalogue.
Mr. Matalon conducts ensembles regularly and has as well a teaching activity. He was the composer-in-residence with the Orchestre National de Lorraine and the Arsenal de Metz for the years 2003 and 2004. and from 2005 until 2009 he is composer in residence at the electronic studios of La Muse en Circuit.
Conductor｜CHANG Yin-fang
CHANG Yin-fang was the Resident conductor of the Taiwan Philharmonic (NSO) from 2017 to 2022. She is good at various cross-industry collaborations, all of which are well-received. In addition, CHANG is actively involved in the publication of contemporary Asian music works. In 2018, she was invited to conduct the opening concert of the Asia-Pacific Music Festival and premiered the works of several composers. Her recent appearances include conducting new productions, such as The Man with the Compound Eyes and Tannhäuser (chamber version). In recent years, CHANG has been invited to cooperate with Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa, Hong Kong City Chamber Orchestra, Taipei City Chinese Orchestra, National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, Tainan City Symphony Orchestra and Kaohsiung City Symphony Orchestra.
Teams Introduction
IRCAM Centre-Pompidou
IRCAM, the Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music directed by Frank MADLENER, is one of the world's largest public research centers dedicated to both musical expression and scientific research. This unique location where artistic sensibilities collide with scientific and technological innovation brings together over 160 collaborators.
IRCAM's three principal activities — creation, research, transmission — are visible in IRCAM's Parisian concert season, in productions throughout France and abroad, and in two annual rendezvous: ManiFeste that combines an international festival with a multidisciplinary academy and the Vertigo forum that presents technical mutations and their tangible effects on artistic creation.
Founded by Pierre BOULEZ, IRCAM is associated with the Centre Pompidou, under the tutelage of the French Ministry of Culture. The mixed STMS research lab (Sciences and Technologies for Music and Sound), housed by IRCAM, also benefits from the support of the CNRS and Sorbonne University.
In 2020, IRCAM created Ircam Amplify, a spin-off for the commercialization of the institute’s audio innovations. A true interface between state of the art of audio research and the industrial world on a global scale, Ircam Amplify is a major actor in the sound revolution of the 21st century.
C-LAB Taiwan Sound Lab
In 2018, the Ministry of Culture, Taiwan and IRCAM Centre-Pompidou (IRCAM), France signed a letter of intent for cooperation. In 2019, Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB) and IRCAM co-founded the Taiwan Sound Lab (TSL) to promote cross-disciplinary contemporary art-making in Taiwan by drawing from IRCAM's development strategies and operational experiences in the domains of music and sounds.
TSL was founded by adhering to the integration of artistic creation, sciences, technologies, cross-disciplinary practices, and educational research. TSL intends to build an experimental platform which, based on musical sounds, matches technical engineering with creativities across disciplines and art genres. It also conducts resource integration and cross-institutional collaboration; in terms of hardware, a 49.4 channel immersive stereo sound field and a 16-channel immersive stereo sound workstation have been built for artistic experimentations and creations. As for software engineering, TSL continues its cultivation of and exchanges for technicians and talents, including projects of composition, musicology, digital art, sound engineering, and sound recording and processing, which are applied in electronic music-making, computer music production, cross-field exhibitions and performances, and interactive multimedia systems and auditory interface design, attempting to stimulate diverse ideas and creativities of musical sounds, develop multi-level cultural imagination and dialogue for music and sound art in Taiwan, and forge a complete ecosystem chain for innovating media technologies.
Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Foundation
Since it was founded in 1966, the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Foundation has been committed to preserving, maintaining and making accessible a large part of the German film heritage of outstanding cultural and film-historical importance from the beginning of the motion pictures to the beginning of the 1960s, namely 2000 silent films, 1000 sound films and around 3000 short films (advertising, cultural, documentary films).
This means that the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Foundation is one of the central institutions in the media industry for the preservation of film as a cultural asset.
The inventory includes films by important directors such as Fritz Lang, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, Ernst Lubitsch, Detlef Sierck, Helmut Käutner and Wolfgang Staudte, works that are still up-to-date today. In addition to METROPOLIS, which is part of the UNESCO documentary heritage, these include the great classics of German cinema such as DIE NIBELUNGEN, THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI, THE BLUE ANGEL, THE THREE FROM THE GAS STATION, MUNCHHAUSEN, GROSSE FREEDOM NO. 7 and HEROES.
The foundation is located at the Deutsches Filmhaus in Wiesbaden since 2009, which, in addition to the foundation and other film industry institutions, also includes the Murnau Film Theater.
TimeArt Studio
TimeArt Studio is a collaboration of a group of young musicians, who aim to inherit the tradition embedded in contemporary music. They pursue the goal of supporting New Music and giving it appropriate performances. In addition to seeking the fusion between cultures, TimeArt Studio has also explored the relationship between visuals, space and sound through collaboration with artists from different fields, creating projects inspired by local traditions and the most recent technology.
TimeArtStudio has performed in numerous international Music Festival and Arts Festivals, ranging from fully-staged musical theatres to multimedia works to intimate solo performances. It has performed in different countries/places such as the Netherlands, the United States, Chile, China, Macau and Hong Kong.
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© Fritz Lang / Fondation Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
- Price: NTD$300, 600, 900, 1200, 1600, 2000
- For more offers, please visit the ticketing website.
- Weiwuying Co-organiser Program
- Duration is 170 minutes with a 20-minute intermission.
Performed in German with Mandarin Intertitles.
The performance contains nudity scenes, viewer discretion is advised.
- Age guidance 12+
- Latecomers must follow staff instructions for entry and re-entry
- For more offers, please visit the ticketing website.
