Le grand Plongeon is a performative investigation into the myth of Atlantis, with the eponymous orchestral piece Atlantis (1995) by Peter Eötvös as the common thread.
Performed at POLE NORD Ancienne poste Le locle 9 février 2024
Performed at La voirie Bienne/Biel 2021
Performed at Gare du Nord Bale 2021
Performed at Kleine Theater Luzern 2021
Performed at Walcheturm ( won IGNM call to scores) 2020
Premiered at Dampfzentral Bern 2019 ( won Nicati Compeition)
Le grand Plongeon features three performers, in a context of a somewhat lost bar-restaurant, located in an abandoned city by successive exoduses.
The title comes from the French-American archaeologist Augustus Le Plongeon, who would have spent his life speculating (and gambling?) on the location of the lost continent of Atlantis.
This prognosis – in retrospect – was ultimately an engine to give meaning to his life. This is inspiring, especially for our frustration of action in the face of contemporary global-problem ( climate change, biodiversity collapsing.) – especially since the latter has always reported to us through the media. Isn’t predicting, predicting also a participation in life?
Our transcription, arrangement of Atlantis (*1995) is assisted by real-time processing, the sampler, scenography, by video and text. This video-opera format makes it possible to go back and forth between the score and the archives, comments as well as a contemporary re-contextualization. The contribution of real-time processing makes it possible to multiply the possibilities of the instruments: Having a child’s voice, playing a brass orchestra with a midi keyboard, adding all kinds of effect such as delay, reverb, filtering – important to thicken the sound – and ultimately have an orchestral tone to a reduced number.
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kollektiv iиterиatioиal totem
>PORTFOLIO/CV
2024
Melia Roger
See the whale
Endless2
2023
Tracy September
electric Unconscious
baleen_hk
corals_geneva
2022
cinna peyghamy
music festival bern
viviane wang
lara stanic
corals
hamster and the dame
le grand plongeon tour
2021
sonic-matter
kaspar könig
passagen
lukas huber
aio frei
maximilian witcher
2020
medusen
festival rümlingen
charles kwong
ko-operator
antoine chessex
simone keller
2019
florent caron darras
charles quevillon
numu
baleen
tilde
2018-2015
pinyin
the riot
Email us
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