Nathanaëlle Raboisson

For 16 years, Nathanaëlle Raboisson has performed musique concrète – a studio-based technique that uses fixed, recorded sounds – in sensitive, musical concerts. As an interpreter of acousmatic music at the Motus music company and the Futura Festival, Raboisson has performed over 500 works, including more than 50 world premieres, from classics to creations by young composers. Her concerts, in France (Palais de Tokyo, Le Cube, La Ferme du Buisson, La Muse en Circuit, etc.) and internationally (Tempo Reale in Florence, Institut Français du Japon-Kansai, etc.), are a natural corollary to her teaching, publishing and composing activities for concerts, live performances and multimedia installations. Raboisson is a musicologist, director of MotusLab, the Motus music company’s research laboratory, and an associate member of the Sorbonne’s musicological research laboratory, IReMus.

Nathanaëlle Raboisson’s project analysed the musical practices of performers with two Japanese loudspeaker orchestras. A loudspeaker orchestra, or Acousmonium, is a group of loudspeakers placed around and among the audience. The orchestra is operated live by the performer, who interprets the composition from a console by choosing which aspects of the work they wish to emphasise. Raboisson based her research on comparative analyses of video captures of movements, video recordings, conversations with professional and amateur performers, and analyses of graphic transcriptions. To do this, she adapted research tools and protocols, developed in France since 2015, and used them with Japanese systems, working with artists and researchers, and continuing this collaboration after her residency.