Kollektiv Iиterиatioиal totem
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
2018-2016
pinyin
the riot
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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 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.
