{"id":822,"date":"2012-01-05T11:57:24","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T10:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/?p=822"},"modified":"2022-10-20T21:50:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T19:50:00","slug":"lidee-de-bertold-bartosh-1932","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/en\/lidee-de-bertold-bartosh-1932\/","title":{"rendered":"L’IDEE de Bertold Bartosh (1932)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The text and video excerpt below document the book by Philippe Langlois, Les cloches d\u2019Atlantis, musique \u00e9lectroacoustique et cin\u00e9ma arch\u00e9ologie et histoire d\u2019un art sonore,<\/em> <\/a>\u00e9ditions mf, Paris, first quarter 2012.<\/p>\n

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When Berthold Bartosh\u2019s animated film L\u2019id\u00e9e, shot between 1931 and 1934 from the woodcuts of the Belgian Expressionist painter Franz Maser\u00e9el, was released in cinemas, some critics spoke of a genuine \u201crevolution in animation\u201d aimed at an adult audience. The film\u2019s genesis was compromised by the Nazis\u2019 rise to power in Berlin: Bartosch had to take the film to Paris, where it was completed and shown for the first time, in 1934, to an audience of intellectuals at the Vieux Colombier. It reveals the strange beauty of a symbolic world that resembles our society and whose main character is an idea. This idea takes shape as a naked woman and symbolises popular revolt against every form of oppression, insurrection against authority. This woman will be hunted down by society, pursued through the streets by soldiers, priests and merchants, fought, then annihilated before being reborn from the split skull of the man who imagined her.
The incarnation of the idea takes different forms in Arthur Honegger\u2019s music, notably through the use of the ondes Martenot. The choice of an \u201cabstract\u201d sound to represent an idea, an ideology, of a modern sonority linked to Maser\u00e9el\u2019s resolutely \u201canticipatory\u201d artistic thought, and the use of a \u201crevolutionary\u201d sound to embody a revolutionary character: these are all elements that lead Honegger to choose the ondes Martenot as the solo instrument in his score.<\/p>\n\n\n

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