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kil0Girl$

Float at the start of movement
Super Heroes
Impossible Mathematics
Multi.complexion
Stop freeze people's mind

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I would like the Kilogirl to be…

I would like the Kilogirl to be of a collective frequency
I would like the Kilogirl to be layered and well connected
I would like the Kilogirl to be of gradient with underlying multi.complexion
I would like the Kilogirl to be a super hero
I would like the Kilogirl to go into the ghostnet and fix it
I would like the Kilogirl to be on the surface - smooth (depth)
I would like the Kilogirl to execute impossible mathematics
I would like the Kilogirl to create zones of alternative fearlessness
I would like the Kilogirl to stop freeze peoples minds
I would like the Kilogirl to detect schemes that should be abolished
I would like the Kilogirl to have logic related powers
I would like the Kilogirl to be underneath: flawlessly lethal
I would like the Kilogirl to be finding the logical flaws in things
I would like the Kilogirl to posses lithesome movements
I would like the Kilogirl to be crowdsourced
I would like the Kilogirl to be exploiting flaws for ultimate victory
I would like the Kilogirl to float at the start of movement
I would like the Kilogirl to be able to change her density at will (for punching powers)
I would like the Kilogirl to be able to annihilate manipulation
I would like the Kilogirl to master protection
I would like the Kilogirl to display remarkable propensity to beauty while using the kilo- prefix
I would like the Kilogirl to beat imperial (non-metric) intent
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I would NOT ... (not not not)
like Kilogirl to be a dimension of thousand hours of manual computing labor







kil0Girl$



In the early days of the computer age, tedious calculations were considered a woman's job, which explains the term "kilogirl", coined by a member of the Applied Mathematics Panel in the early 1940s. One kilogirl was equivalent to about a thousand hours of computational work.

Ensemble Batida and the musician and producer AGF collaborated remotely for several months to compose a new work: sharing texts, ideas, sounds and inspirations resulted in inter-codes, images and musical notes. The spinal column of the piece, AGF's poem, created following an exchange with Internet users on Twitter, gives birth to the figure of the kilogirl, emerging from the anonymity of the common mathematical effort to take its independence and develop its own powers.

"kil0Girl$" is composed of five parts: Float at the start of movement, Super Heroes, Impossible Mathematics, Multi.complexion, Stop freeze people's mind. Each one is based on a code, inspired as much by the birds' dialogue as by secret communication or computer coding processes. Electronics and acoustics blend into a common language, carried by eleven performers on stage: five percussionists travel between different specialized "workstations", while keyboards and samplers frame the quartet (violin, viola, cello, clarinet/contrabassa clarinet).

From individual impulses to the common task, the compositional processes unfold a wide range of sound relationships. The use of letters, numbers, gestures and notes follows factory logic, animal logic, machine logic.

Composition and electronics: Antye Greie-Ripatti (AGF) and Ensemble Batida (Jeanne Larrouturou, Anne Briset, Alexandra Bellon, Raphaël Krajka and Viva Sanchez Reinoso)
Scenography: Batida Ensemble

Poem: AGF, based on an original idea from a Twitter chat with Georgina Conroy (@scarygeorge) following a post by Belinda Barnet (@manjusrii) about the book 'Broad Band' by Claire L. Evans
Musicians : Ensemble Contrechamps and Ensemble Batida
Electronics: AGF
Sound engineer: David Poissonnier
Commissioned by Ensemble Contrechamps



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