Every year, several musical research sessions are held at the ensemble’s premises, in collaboration with a composer.
True laboratories for experimentation, these sessions provide valuable opportunities for our artists and the invited composer. They allow them to develop their skills, explore new sound materials and experiment with new tools, away from the constraints of public programming. Performers and creators can thus inspire and learn from one another through frequent exchanges, over a period of time dedicated entirely to exploration and discovery.
Following the work carried out on the Light Wall System during PdSLaB#0, developed in December 2017, Les Percussions de Strasbourg began opening these sessions to a small number of students from higher music education institutions, as well as to other audiences, several times a year.
Our commitment to research guides our choices long before a project is conceived. This approach allows us to build in a pre-creation period, giving a potential project more time and ensuring that it can be developed in depth and brought to completion with the greatest possible care.
History:
- PdSLab#0 – Jean Geoffroy and the Light Wall System
- PdSLaB#1 – Carmine Emanuele Cella and his augmented instrument
- PdSLaB#2 – Philippe Manoury and the Sixxen
- PdSLaB#3 – Hugues Dufourt and continuous sounds in percussion
- PdSLaB#4 – Gabriel Sivak on the theme of printing
- PdSLaB#5 – Sébastien Béranger around MusineKit 2019, in partnership with La Muse en Circuit (National Centre for Musical Creation)
- PdSLaB#6 – Maurilio Cacciatore for the development of his vibrating mallet
- PdSLaB#7 – Naoki Sakata for research into his new composition
- PdSLaB#8 – Michaël Levinas / Les Invariants (18 October 2019)
- PdSLaB#9 – Dominique Delahoche / Vèmes (9 January 2020)
- PdSLaB#10 – Michelangelo Lupone / A corps perdu (26 October 2020)
- PdSLaB#11 – Agata Zubel / Spray (4 June 2022)
- PdSLaB#12 – Yijoo Hwang / Désordre (19 September 2022)
- PdSLaB#13 – Yang Song / Ombres (20 September 2022)
- PdSLaB#14 – Noémie Ettlin / Banquise
- PdSLaB#15 – Lương Huệ Trinh / Hoang hoải (September 2024)
- PdSLab#15 – Matchume Zango, as part of an exchange with Mozambique (December 2024)
Research residencies in 2023 and 2024: TrajectoryZ with Zeno van den Broek
