As part of the MACROCOSM retrospective on Ryoji Ikeda at the Philharmonie de Paris.
Created in 2019 at the Los Angeles Philharmonic, in the sumptuous hall designed by architect Frank Gehry, 100 Cymbals is as much a stage performance as an audiovisual installation. Ryoji Ikeda highlights the rich potential of cymbals by following the thin line between noise and harmonic resonance. The seemingly rudimentary instrument, a convex disc made of an alloy of copper, brass and bronze, which is more commonly used to accentuate certain times of the measure, is transformed into a powerful polyphonic resource. The different modes of playing, more or less conventional, maintain a fusional – almost choral – sound and allow harmonic strata and other acoustic results to emerge within a process that a simple line could represent: an infinite crescendo, leading from an almost imperceptible murmur to the brilliance of the final fortississimo.
Musicians : Minh-Tâm Nguyen, Yi-Ping Yang, Alexandre Babel, Stéphane Garin, Amélie Grould et des Étudiants des classes de percussions des CNSMD de Paris et de Lyon
⏰ Concert at 6pm.
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