Creation : 3 June 2018, Opéra de Reims, France
Commissioner : Voix de Stras’
Coproduction : Centre national de création musicale Césaré
Duration : 14′
Musicians : 4 singers, real-time electronic equipment (and 4 percussionists)
“Vocal writing in textures and counterpoints around the multiple sounds of the voice, words, bits of words, syllables, consonants, articulations, stretched and modulated sounds… Add computer analysis and sound processing – a computer picks up the sound to extract attack transients, vowels, words, voice colours, pitches, “noises”. These elements are taken up, repeated, triturated, combined – juxtaposed with sounds transformed in real time, re-synthesized, sequenced, deconstructed, recombined… Is nonsense really meaningless, without silence, without sound? Nonsense. »
Tom Mays (between Strasbourg and Marseille, June 2016)
The play will be premiered in its final version in the show Derrière la luette by Voix de Stras’ at the Reims Opera on June 3, 2018 as part of the Matinées contemporaines de Césaré, CNCM de Reims.