​ Irina Prieto Botella
Composer / compositrice
L'ÎLE EN SOI
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Irina Prieto Botella, Maison George Sand, March 2023
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Passionate about the islands from which she draws her philosophical teachings on territorial and human mapping, musician and composer Irina Prieto Botella translates her experience of shared intimacy through a binaural sound installation within the walls of a symbolic monument of the French Revolution, a symbol of confinement and isolation among individuals. Based on island sound recordings and the memory of the works of the late composer Julien Gauthier, L’Île en soi offers visitors a poetic interactive journey where solitude and freedom are revealed in the infinity of a defined space.
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Texts, sound creation, and musical composition by Irina Prieto Botella
Excerpts from the works Un hiver à Majorque (1842) and Histoire de ma vie (1855) by George Sand interpreted by Marie-Christine Barrault
Piano by Ève-Mélody Salom from the Young Talents Academy of the Nohant Chopin Festival
Mixing by Mathilde Genas
Sound equipment by RSF Company
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This project received funding from the Mondes Nouveaux program of the French Ministry of Culture.
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Press : Le Berry Républicain, Festival Chopin, L'écho du Berry, Nohant-Vic, le site de la commune
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L'ÚLTIM RESÒ
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Irina Prieto Botella, Escola Massana, July 2017
Electroacoustic music for 8 loudspeakers made with recorded sounds of the Escola Massana (School of Fine Arts in Barcelona).
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You can listen to some sound landscapes of the project here.
TERRES DES HOMMES
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Irina Prieto Botella et Mathilde Cameirao, Mars 2017
Trio for mezzo soprano, violoncello and clarinet/clarinet bass. Animation short film by Mathilde Cameirao.
A work inspired by the eponymous text by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
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World premiere in Mars 2017 in the Liceu OFF Festival, Opera del Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona.
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Score, here.
MIGRATION
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Irina Prieto Botella, Centre George Pompidou, 2012
Migration is a musical piece about the process of digitization of information in today's world.
The sound material used was recorded during the “Sound Recording Workshop” that I led at the Bibliothèque Publique d’Information,
Centre George Pompidou (Paris), in June 2012.
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Click here to listen to Migration.
Giusy Ragosa, 2012
LA RUCHE
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Irina Prieto Botella, La Conciergerie, 2014
La ruche is a musical piece composed for the event "Ecoutes croisées", organised by Pascale Criton at la Conciergerie on the 21st and 22nd March 2014.
The sound material used was recorded inside this old historical building and in its surroundings.
This piece is a poetical reflection about the inside and the outside, and the role of prisons nowadays.
PHONOPHOTO # 1 Haranger
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Phono, Irina Prieto
Photo, Gemma Peiró