Leon Milo - Composer's Journal

Setting up the Cologne recording session.

 

 

Dear Friends,

I have just returned from Cologne where I spent a fasinating 3 days working with pianist Susanne Kessel.

Here are a couple of photos of the fabulous facility at the Deutschlandfunk where we were so wonderfully received. 

In these photos we were setting up gongs for a new work called "Gongscape for Olivier Messiaen" and a peak from the booth while recording  Timetexture, for piano and electronics. 

 

 

 

We expect the CD to be released in the spring of 2012.

More news soon!

Best to all,

Leon.

Mexico

Hello Friends in Oaxaca!

http://leonmilo.com/det_mexico.html

Maison et Objet

Just wanted to post a very short note to say that I have just completed a sound design for the design agency Agence Nuel for the entrance of this year's design fair in Paris called Maison et Objet.

The show is from 20-24 January and is considered to be one of the most important of it's kind!

In other news, I will be leaving for Cologne on the 27th of January to record a new cd of music of Messiaen and my own works with Susanne Kessel for the Deutschlandfunk and Oehms Classics.

 

Time Texture for Piano and Electronics. Leon Milo

 

 

Enjoy!

Very best to all,

Leon.

 

 

Exquise Design/ Gallery Slott

Dear friends,

 

With so many various projects on the go in 2011 I have been very rare with my blogs. So to start anew, I would like to share with you all the new website of Exquise Design, the gallery with which I have been collaborating since its inception in 2010!

To start of the New Year, I will be presenting new sound design in collaboration with video artist Gregory Abou at Art Paris

In other news, I have just finished the music and sound design for a new ten episode series for Radio, presenting a theatrical adaptation of a magical and sureal Mexican novel. It should be a fabulous production. Will have more specific info on the broadcast soon.

In the mean time, I leave you with some of the theme music from my Soundcloud pages!

 

Wishing you all a happy and health New Year, 2012!

Best,

Leon.

Interact-Son Interview for Présence Electronique 2011

Interact-Son

Leon Milo & Francoise Daudin Clavaud

Interview for Radio France Présence Electronique, 2011

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Afternoon in Auvergne

Leaving Luanda

I have just returned from a one week, three city tour in Angola. It has been an eye opening and at times shocking experience which I will write about in the coming days.
In the mean time, here is a photo taken on my iPhone just prior to our departure.

Best to all and until soon.
Leon.

Lubango, Angola

DOGON

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DOGON
I have just completed a group of new compositions for a wonderful evening of music and dance performances related to traditional art from the Dogon (Mali) along with contemporary clothing design by design students of the ENSAD in Paris.

All this took place at the Quai Branly Museum in Paris.

               This gorgeous exhibition of art from the Dogon culture continues until July.

               Thanks for listening!

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Salle 400 - Présence Electronique 2011

Interact-Son at Présence Electronique
26 mars 2011

 

 

Le Duo Interact-Son! 26 March Paris

 

It is with great pleasure that I announce an upcoming performance of "Interact-Son", our duo with myself on electronics and Francois Daudin Clavaud on flutes.

 

The event is festival  Présence Electronique produced by Radio France and the GRM.

The date is: Saturday March 26 at 18h. At the 104 Paris. 

Le Centquatre

104 rue d'Aubervilliers - 5 rue Curial / 75019 Paris / FRANCE MAP

For more information on this fabulous festival please see: 

http://www.inagrm.com/content/presences-electronique-2011

 

 

 

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PAINT YOUR CHRISTMAS....

....at the Slott Gallerie!

music by DJ MrMaqs / sound design Léon Milo

I am thrilled to take part in another event by Exquise Design and the Slott Gallerie.

 

For all the detail, please visit this page @Slott.

 

PAINT customise ta boule de noël

MIAM Glögg, kannelbullar & more goodies...

BUY & TRY showroom-vente Homecore

WATCH Are You There - photographie + film by Gregory Abou

CONCERT Kay Elisabeth nouvel album ‘Disposition’ (Samedi 11 décembre 19h) RESERVATION OBLIGATOIRE! PLACES LIMITEES

LISTEN music by DJ MrMaqs / sound design Léon Milo

les enfants sont les bienvenus !

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Radio France Interview

Dear friends,

I spent a very enjoyable hour with the composer, contemporary music expert and radio host, Brono Letort in his studios at Radio France last May. He has a weekly radio show called Tapages Nocturne.

 

I would like to share the interviw with you. There are loads of excerpts and it is a beautifully produced program.

It can be found right here on my podcast site: http://soundcloud.com/leonmilo/milo-france-musique-2010

Thanks for listening and enjoy sound :))

Best to all,

 

Leon. 

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Performance, Sunday 19th September Trio d'Argent at the Maison du Brésil

Mexico, for Flute Trio and Electronics will be performed on Sunday 19th September, 4PM by the Trio d'Argent at the Maison du Brésil: Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris, 17 boulevard Jourdan 75014 Paris. Hope that you can make it!
More information about this wonderful weekend festival of contemporary music at the Cité Int'l. can be found here: http://www.futurscomposes.com/activites/evenements/

Hope that you can make it!

Best to all, Leon.

“Clemente”, Sound installation for the Acquario Civico di Milano and Slott Gallery

Dear Friends,

I am thrilled to announce the completion a new sound installation for presentation at the Acquario Civico di Milano, from the 14th-19th April. The work was commissioned by Paola Bjaringer, founder and director the Slott Gallery in Paris for the exhibition "Préliminaires" as part of the Salone Del Mobile in Milan.  It will accompany design work by Matali Crasset and Florence Jaffrain.

For much more information and directions, please visit the Slott Gallery website: Slott

I have included a short program note about the work, below, and have posted a short compilation mix on my Soundcloud page or download the long version (mp3 28mb).

Thanks for visiting!
Best to all.
Leon.

“Clemente”, Sound installation for the  Acquario Civico di Milano and Slott Gallery

“Clemente” is a festival of sound in space. A liquid space. A world equally ample and weightless, surrounded by subtle light and filtered tonalities. It offers us reflections on our origins and parallels with our future. It is a universe of frequencies, where sonic communication seems to have evolved to a minimum, becoming undeniably tailor-made and masterfully efficient for those living and interacting in this element.

In parts of this work we can hear: The Humpback Whale (Megaptera Novaeangliae), Blue Whale (Balaenoptera Musculus), Orca Whale (Orcinus Orca), Sperm Whale (Physeter Macrocephalus), Pilot Whale (Globicephala melaena), Minke Whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata), Risso's Dolphin (Grampus Griseus), Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops Truncatus) and the Grey Seal (Halichoerus Grypus).

St. Clemente is the name of the island off the California coast where I spent many quiet days on the ocean with my father.  This work is dedicated to him, along with my appreciation and thanks to Paola Bejeringer and Slott Gallery for commissioning this project.

Our presence on and in the seas, including the noises that we create and inject into it has an impact on the life and well being of that world and on ours.

Leon Milo,
Paris, April 2010

Download  the Milo_Aquarium long version (mp3 28mb)

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