\nMETROPOLIS (film, 1927)|Germany
\n\nDirector|Fritz LANG
\n\nFormat|Black and white, digital restoration (2010)
\n\nRunning time|150 minutes
\n\nRestoration|Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation, Wiesbaden
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Advised by|Ministry of Culture
\n\nPresenter|Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab
\n\nCuratorial Team|C-LAB Taiwan Sound Lab, IRCAM Centre-Pompidou
\n\nCollaborator|TimeArt Studio
\n\nCo-organiser|National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying), Taipei Percussion, Department of Music, Taipei National University of the Arts
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Artists Introduction
\n\nMETROPOLIS Composer|Martin MATALON
\n\nBorn 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).
\n\nIn 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.
\n\nHis 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…
\n\nBegun 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.
\n\nMr. 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.
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Conductor|CHANG Yin-fang
\n\nCHANG 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.
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Teams Introduction
\n\nIRCAM Centre-Pompidou
\n\nIRCAM, 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.
\n\nIRCAM'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.
\n\nFounded 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.
\n\nIn 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.
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C-LAB Taiwan Sound Lab
\n\nIn 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.
\n\nTSL 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.
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Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Foundation
\n\nSince 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).
\n\nThis 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.
\n\nThe 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.
\n\nThe 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.
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TimeArt Studio
\n\nTimeArt 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.
\n\nTimeArtStudio 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
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