About

About

Proxima Centauri & SCRIME are proud to launch MIXTE - International academy of musical creation.
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MIXTE is an Academy created to train composers and interpreters who wish to discover and deepen the practice of mixed music that associates an instrumental ensemble and electronic set-up. Designed as a lab for experimenting, this academy offers a place and time where musicians in training along with professional scientists and musicians get to meet, listen to each other, exchange and create together. 

MIXTE takes place in July in Talence, Metropolis of Bordeaux. Spread out in different places of the city: the SCRIME, the music school and the library of Talence, the Forum and « Rock et Chanson », workshops, master classes and public restitutions will be as many opportunities for the participants to exchange, create and meet the public.

The workshops will be led by the Proxima Centauri musicians and guest composers, as well as the Scrime team. The emphasis is on experimentation, both instrumental and electronic, and artistic exchange.

 

For over thirhy years, Proxima Centauri rewrites the codes of chamber music namely by integrating electro-acoustic as a full-fledged member of the formation. For over twenty years

The SCRIME (Studio of Creation and Research in Computer Science and Experimental Music) has for main objective to develop collaborations between artists and scientists for purposes of research and creation.

MIXTE is a partner to MÀD Festival that takes place in October in the Bordeaux greater area. A « young generation » platform will present the selected pieces for a world premiere.

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