La Muraille with the Percussions de Treffort – Théâtre de Bourg en Bresse
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Les Percussions de Treffort and Résonance contemporaine, Les Percussions de Strasbourg and Les Percussions de Treffort (an ensemble that brings together singular musicians, some disabled, others not) are pooling their thirst for being in music through this new show.
The Percussions de Strasbourg have thus composed La Muraille, a musical, electronic and gestural work dedicated to the Percussions de Treffort. In this work we find the desire to open up free passages in which movements and music collide, induce each other, suspend each other and draw us into a poetics of sound and gesture.
The Percussions de Treffort, composed of a quartet and a trio, are the performers evolving in this ecosystem, sometimes on one side of the wall, sometimes on the other. A trio of percussion and electronics from the Percussions de Strasbourg accompanies them throughout these back and forth movements.
21 january 2022 – Théâtre de Bourg en Bresse
RAINS, Japanese sextuor – Maison de la Culture du Japon, Paris
“Dancing with the rain to make what we thought was invisible resonate for a moment. Driven by a curiosity, a desire, a passion, a requirement and a tradition, the Percussions de Strasbourg venture to embody the singular energy of a programme honouring four Japanese composers with admirable worlds. Rain of petals, rain of cries, rain of silences… So many rains that the Percussions de Strasbourg are working to harmonise and keep in motion.
Minh-Tâm Nguyen, artistic director of les Percussions de Strasbourg
Program :
Sange, de Malika Kishino
Rain tree, de Toru Takemitsu
Regentanz, Toshio Hosokawa
Hiérophonie V, Taïra
22 January 2022 – Maison de la Culture du Japon à Paris
Shaker Kami & Myotis V – théâtre de Hautepierre
One evening, two original creations.
For this evening of concerts at the Hautepierre theatre, the Percussions de Strasbourg will play two pieces created in 2020:
Shaker Kami is an adventure into the world of minimalist jazz by Nik Bärtsch, its composer. His work is at the intersection of contemporary music and jazz, with influences from funk. In his music, the use of repetition and structures based on interweaving elements hints at the influence of minimalist music, particularly that of Steve Reich. The result is a piece with a funky, haunting and very catchy groove.
The Myotis V project, composed with Anthony Laguerre, is a research project based on amplified drums, which allows inaudible sounds to be brought into play by amplifying them with microphones and reproducing them. Much more than a musical composition, Myotis V is a research process which, through the energy of rock, pushes the limits of the drums to their ultimate boundaries, creating a sound space which plays with the acoustics of each instrument, the amplification and the inversion of energies.
Infos and tickets here
Release of the book-disc Pleiades & Persephassa, Iannis Xenakis
PLEIADES & PERSEPHASSA, IANNIS XENAKIS
The story of an exceptional encounter between a composer and a group of performers.
“Through these two pieces and their richness, we have an incredibly open and wide range of play and appropriation for the performer. In Persephassa, the performer is an element of a relentless mechanic, subject to a controlled structure; in Pleiades, the performer is an actor of events, embodying and carrying them in this inexorable movement that pushes us forward. But whether it is for one piece or another, the pleasure of playing, of the sound and of the group are the same, and beyond the pieces themselves, it is above all what we hear in this interpretation carried by the Percussions de Strasbourg, this recording alone being able to define what this ensemble is in its cohesion, its desire, its imagination, its enthusiasm, its talent.
Between the 1970s with its historic recordings and today, there is finally only one more step, a step added to those of the four generations who have participated in this crazy adventure, one more step like a relay passed from generation to generation, if only to ensure that the movement initiated by all the composers who have written for the Percussions de Strasbourg, and in the forefront of whom is Iannis Xenakis, never stops.”
Jean Geoffroy