Creation: 22 February 2023, Théâtre de Hautepierre, Strasbourg
Order and Production: Les Percussions de Strasbourg
Musicians: 6 performers
Duration : 15′
Created as part of the “Only” program.
“The idea behind this piece is to use a work of art to create another work of art. Six percussionists play the notes written in the score, but instead of instruments and drumsticks, they use a large canvas and paint accessories that make noise or emit sounds when used. The sprays, the brushes – these are tools for reproducing what’s written in the score, written in such a way that the effect played out in time is a musical work, and the final effect – a colorful work of visual art. What’s more, the final result consists of six works of art, based on the same musical score, but differing in the final visual version.
This is not just an audiovisual work. The main idea is the creative process, the path of realization of a given musical material with the help of the knowledge and gesture of the musical art world, but – almost by accident – the final result can be materialistic, not only as a recording, which is a typical musical “documentation”, but also as an object – a painted picture”.
Agata Zubel