CURRENT SOLO PERFORMANCE
LE CADENZE OBLIQUE
LE CADENZE OBLIQUE
is a performance that developed from a series of pieces I wrote in 2006 for the pianist Jean-Luc Dupuy to be played at the MACBA auditorium in Barcelona. The new format of the performance involves choreographic movement and objects
and includes materials that where part of other projects wich here find a new dimension and significance..
A Short Description.
The act begins with a piano and pianist completely covered and enveloped in plastic bags and cellophane. An electronic composition is accompanying the action, and after, the piano performance.
It is like after a disaster, a sinking or an explosion. The man-pianist, under the piano, slowly comes out rolling on the floor, and, with great labour takes position at the piano still full of material.
He takes away the pieces of polystyrene and plastic and plays a post-disaster music. The public follows this process, entering in the music dimension slowly, getting in the situation like following a spiral.
After comes a question about the arts. After a new short intro the pianist shows a paper with the word ART written. He rips the paper while the sound of people in a gallery turns into a forest of animal sounds. Paper pieces fall on the ground together with the last monkey shouts… A new cadenza is beginning. It sounds like a Chopin nocturne but slowly the tape rises with street noises, a dog barking, drilling machines and more. it is quite impossible to listen to the piano music. It get cancelled and only the gestures of the pianist remain, like in a dream.
Finally a voice says ” Écutez! (in French) Sound art is just… not usefull…” and the piano plays mono-syllable and scratches on the strings. At last a robot like sound is heard and the pianist moves like a broken automatic toy; at times a short orchestra cadenza is heard and the pianist stops, looking for it´s imaginary source in the air… like if there was a ghost or something.
The last part begins with candles on the piano. The pianist enters with a record-envelop dressed in the manner of a high priest cap, and a priest scarf with written “ destin spirituelle d’une époque” (see photos).
He begins to play a stretched version of the Moon Light Serenade by Beethoven. Very slowly it turns into a nightmare when other Moonlight Serenade recordings (a multilayer of 6 or 7 different interpretations) overlap on the one played live.
The tape drives then to other sounds: industries, dance music, and trash of all kind in a crescendo at full force.
The pianist leave the instrument and, for the resting 6 minutes, distributes to the public vinile-record fragments like in a strange ceremony…
Go to Recordings to listen to the sound of it
Go to Photos to see some picture of the performance
a solo performance for piano, objects, voice and electronics - duration: 50 minutes
