The ancient texts express the musical realities of yesteryear in terms that are not familiar to us. We must learn the musical language of men of the past, but also their global way of expressing
themselves, their imagination, their daily lives and to represent how they themselves were in a process of memory. It’s not just about taking a score and playing it, but also about understanding the world that this music refers to.”
Marcel Pérès
The Association Organum is a non-profit organization that brings together those who wish to support the Ensemble Organum directed by Marcel Pérès (dissemination of repertoires through concerts worldwide) and CIRMA (research, teaching, production and publication activities) in the whole of their artistic, cultural and educational policy and contribute to its influence in France and abroad.
Created at the Abbey of Sénanque in 1982, then hosted by the Royaumont Foundation from 1984 to 2000, where Marcel Pérès founded the CERIMM (European Centre for the Interpretation of Medieval Music), the Organum Association has been located, since 2001, in Moissac, a high heritage site.
Its objective is to support and develop research in the field of ancient, current and traditional music from Europe and the Mediterranean basin and promote these repertoires through teaching, publication and dissemination.
Why ?
Today, 98% of musical practices are devoted to the last three centuries of the second millennium. There are, however, immense musical continents that remain to be discovered.
The study of ancient repertoires cannot be limited to a simple reconstruction of written or oral material. It calls for another relationship to memory, to its construction through musical behaviours revealing other horizons. The practice of these musics profoundly transforms the of the past leads to a profound rethinking of musical behaviours and their functions within the social fabric.
How ?
– Explore the most forgotten areas of musical history
– Situating early music at the heart of cultural issues in the contemporary world
– Reassess the parameters of cultural action
– Building new ways of disseminating and transmitting knowledge
– To consider cultural and spiritual heritage as an essential resource in the creative processes
Contact-us
Association Organum
12, boulevard lakanal BP 50019
82201 MOISSAC cedex 1
FRANCE
Warning ! Entrance of our premises along the canal Quai Hébrard behind the college of doctrinaires.
Email: ensembleorganum@yahoo.fr
Phone: +33 (0)5 63 95 02 91
Our team
Marcel PERES – Artistic director
Sandra MOMMAYOU – Administrator
Chrysanthos ANTONIOU – In charge of communication
Annick BOUCHENY – President
Christine LORENZO – Treasurer
France DEBES – Secretary
Come to Moissac – Occitanie
By train: We are located 400m from the Moissac (Occitanie) Station, trains coming from Toulouse, Agen, Bordeaux and other major cities serve our city … More information about SNCF
By plane: We are located 50 minutes from the airport of Blagnac (Toulouse) via A62, taxi services can take you to Moissac or you can take the train from the station Matabiau (Toulouse) to Moissac… More information about Toulouse Airport
By road: We are 10 km (10 minutes drive) from the motorway interchange of Castelsarrasin which will allow you to reach the A20, the A62 and the Highway of the two seas.
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