Ritual concert for five performers in movement
( flutes, clarinets, cello, bells, voice and body)
Le Générateur welcomes l’ensemble Zellig for a concert featuring works by today’s composers.
Each is like an invitation to a listening experience characterized by movement.
The musicians’ movement and displacements update the poetics and sound architecture of works by Stockhausen and Pécou.
Internal movement in musical writing with Still motion by Japan’s Murakami or New-York counterpoint by American Steve Reich.
Through these different approaches to the vibratory phenomenon, this concert-ritual unfolds like the crossing of a shaman’s dream, like a constant back-and-forth between earthly anchorage and celestial and cosmic spheres.
The Zellig soloists, keen to experiment and cross-fertilize, present a preview of “Nocturnes d’Afrique”, a multidisciplinary creation of improvisations based on traditional African music. Artists from the worlds of song and dance take part in this proposal.
Works presented:
Le rêve du Chaman by Thierry Pécou
Still motion from Akiko Murakami
New York counterpoint by Steve Reich
Tierkreis (excerpt) by Karlheinz Stockhausen
Sequenza de Luciano Berio
Les chemins de Jérusalem by Ph. Hersant
Manoa by Thierry Pécou
Nocturnes d’Afrique( excerpt preview): a collective creation based on texts by Alain Mabanckou