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Quartiers Rouges est un groupe de quatre instrumentistes chevronnés qui allient les divers horizons de leurs pratiques musicales : la tradition bretonne, la tradition marocaine, les musiques actuelles, le jazz. C'est un ensemble réfléchi, agissant en temps réel à partir des propositions de chaque musicien, par sa pratique, son jeu, sa différence, dans une dynamique d'écoute mutuelle.
C'est également un mélange créatif spontané et naturel, hors des calculs où les propositions apparaissent comme primordiales dans la façon collective de composer et d'improviser. Leur démarche tient au fait que ces quatre musiciens ne se sont pas choisis pour empiler leurs musiques mais pour les associer, les entrechoquer, les faire vivre entre elles pour déclencher chez l'auditeur cet état de partance, ce rêve de voyage magnifique et luxuriant. Loin, très loin...
Alan Madec : accordéon / sanza, Valéry Gaignard: batterie, Michel Saulnier: contrebasse, Bachir Rouimi : percussions / chant
Xème Festival de Cordes Pincées

Le festival est depuis dix ans une invitation au voyage. Ces deux soirées présentent des musiciens de renommées internationales à la salle Ockeghem -- 15 place Chateauneuf 37000.

Concert n°1 -- 19 novembre 2011 à 20h30 -- Salle Ockeghem.

Le plus connu des instruments de la famille des cordes pincées est la guitare, qui est également le plus populaire et le plus pratiqué de tous les instruments.

Il s'agit de réunir une famille d'instruments présents sur les 5 continents, participer par ses soirées musicales au métissage social et culturel de la ville.

Mais il existe bien d'autres instruments le luth renaissance, oud, luthar, pandor, harpe et Guembri... moins connus et pourtant au répertoire très riche et ancré dans de nombreuses traditions culturelles.
Ces artistes et instrumentistes à Cordes Pincées ont déjà participé à nos rencontres...
The accordion (from German Akkordion, from Akkord - "musical chord, concord of sounds"[2]) is a box-shaped musical instrument of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, sometimes colloquially referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist.
The instrument is played by compressing or expanding the bellows while pressing buttons or keys, causing valves, called pallets, to open, which allow air to flow across strips of brass or steel, called reeds, that vibrate to produce sound inside the body.[notes 1]
This instrument is sometimes considered a one-man-band, as it needs no accompanying instrument. The performer normally plays the melody on buttons or keys on the right-hand manual, and the accompaniment, consisting of bass and pre-set chord buttons, on the left-hand manual.
The accordion -which is mainly manufactured in Italy -is often used in folk music in Europe, North America and South America, and in some countries, such as Brazil, Colombia and Mexico, it is also commonly used in mainstream pop music. In Europe and North-America, it is often associated with busking. Some popular music acts also make use of the instrument. Additionally, the accordion is sometimes used in both solo and orchestra performances of classical music.
The oldest name for this group of instruments is actually harmonika, from the Greek harmonikos, meaning harmonic, musical. Today, native versions of the name accordion are more common. These names are a reference to the type of accordion patented by Cyrill Demian, which concerned "automatically coupled chords on the bass side.
ccordions are made in a large number of different configurations and types. What may be technically possible to do with one accordion could be impossible with another:
Some accordions are bisonoric, meaning they produce different pitches depending on the direction of bellows movement
Others are unisonoric and produce the same pitch regardless of the direction of bellows movement
Some accordions use a chromatic buttonboard for the right-hand manual
Others use a diatonic buttonboard for the right-hand manual
Yet others use a piano-style musical keyboard for the right-hand manual
Some accordions are capable of playing in registers different from others
Additionally, different accordion craftsmen and technicians may tune the same registers in a slightly different manner, essentially "personalizing" the end result, such as an organ technician might voice a particular instrument.
The accordion is a free reed instrument and is in the same family as other instruments such as the sheng and khaen. The sheng and khaen are both much older than the accordion and this type of reed did inspire the kind of free reeds in use in the accordion as we know it today.


8-key bisonoric diatonic accordion (c. 1830)
The accordion's basic form is believed to have been invented in Berlin in 1822 by Christian Friedrich Ludwig Buschmann,[notes 4][citation needed] although one instrument has been recently discovered that appears to have been built earlier.