Creation : 03/11/1992, Théâtre du Maillon, Strasbourg
Comissioner : Ministère de la Culture and Percussions de Strasbourg
Musicians: Vocal Ensemble, choral, 6 percussionists
Direction : Roland Hayrabedian
Duration : 60′
Publishing: Billaudot
Text : Philippe Raymond-Thimonga; La Célébration des Invisibles , Mercure de France
Performer(s) of the creation : Percussions de Strasbourg, Ensemble vocal Musicatreize, Amalgame
Shadow theatre : Michel Rosenmann
Melodrama for percussion, choir and shadow theatre.
Echoing the discovery of the New World in the 15th century, La Célébration des invisibles, composed to a text by Philippe Raymond-Thimonga, evokes the future approach to a new form of life, another form of city, in space… Between the ancient, modern and future conquests a bridge takes shape, the resurgence of the same solar dream, the double face of the fabulous and the tragic. The notion of temporal space is matched by that of sound space, and although on stage the musicians are placed in a traditional manner, the listener can hear real journeys described by the rhythmic or melodic formulas of the percussionists. This is made possible by a script that includes the spatialization of the instruments and thus organizes their diffusion over the loudspeakers at six points in the hall. The play written in 1992 involved shadow theatre and actors. The new version, only musical, includes Kits I and Kits III, which were composed in 1996 as interludes to the Celebration of the Invisibles and therefore naturally find their place here.