Paris Conservatory of Dance and Music
Films set to music
Akt-skulpturen (Live Sculptures)
Tramway (Tram)
Lobster Films and the Paris Conservatory of Dance and Music have decided to work together to musically illustrate a selection of films bringing those treasures of heritage cinema to life.
Composition students from the music to image class (supervised by Marie-Jeanne Séréro) were retained to take part in this project. They were given considerable freedom to choose the artistic direction they wanted to go in. The compositions thus reveal different styles of writing from contemporary language (rather atonal writing) to a referenced language (more classical, often tonal writing) in turn offering the chosen films a new interpretation.
The five chosen films were restored to give the students the best visual medium. This collaboration allowed students to associate their work with quality films, showing how much films from the past can gain from being reinterpreted by contemporary sensibility.
The Conservatoire Graduates' Orchestra (OLC) was called on to perform and record the music composed for these films. On this occasion the OLC was conducted by young student conductors from the conducting class at the Paris Conservatory supervised by Zsolt Nagy.
The Audiovisual department of the Paris Conservatory and the students from the FSMS department (sound professions) also worked on this huge project by promoting the technical nature of the 5.1's audio pick-up and broadcast system, also known as multichannel. Jean-Marc Lyzwa, a sound engineer from the audiovisual department with Catherine de Boishéraud in charge supervised the FSMS students for this work.
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Young composers
Young conductors
Young Sound Engineers, FSM Department
Clément Cornuau
Mariette Girard
Alexandre Tanguy
