The Way Forward (2004-05)

50 musicians, conducted by 2 hybrids conductors invade places, stairs and balconies. Cords and voices meet themselves, dialog, melt in a succession of sonorous landscapes. A musical performance which pulls the audience up into a sound world of harmonious and strange vibrations.

This is an exploration of the limits of sound and movement, a meeting between 2 groups, vocal and violin cords.
The audience is immerged in the middle of the choir and the orchestra.
Space, volumes and sound directions offer to music its third dimension, altering the relationship to the listener, far away from “representing on stage”. It is a game based on proximity, almost intimity.

The double musical conducting creates a succession of sound paintings and different sonorous spaces. A work using directions and movement: encircling, diagonals, lines, proximity…

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