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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2025
MUSICTHEATRE Plankton
2024
PERFORMANCE Blind test (Hyper Duo)
Workshop Melia Roger
REPRISE See the whale (baleen)
CONCERT Endless2 L.Huber
2023
Workshop Tracy September
SHOW Electric Unconscious
REPRISE baleen Hong kong
REPRISE corals Geneva
2022
Workshop cinna peyghamy
SHOW: music für narben bern
Workshop viviane wang
PORTRAIT lara stanic
MUSICTHEATRE corals zürich
SHOW hamster and the dame
SHOW le grand plongeon tour
2021
CONCERT sonic-matter
PORTRAIT kaspar könig
CONCERT passagen
Workshop lukas huber
Workshop aio frei
CONCERT M. witcher
2020
MUSICTHEATRE medusen
PERFORMANCE festival rümlingen
Workshop charles kwong
Workshop ko-operator
CONCERT antoine chessex
SHOW simone keller
2019
CONCERT florent caron darras
CONCERT charles quevillon
CONCERT at numu
MUSICTHEATRE baleen
CONCERT Tour tilde
2018-2015
SHOW pinyin
CONCERT the riot
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