An exclusive evening shared by Les Percussions de Strasbourg and Hihats In Trees (Lander Gyselinck), an outstanding double bill that multiplies unique rhythmic experiences in the Salle Henry Le Bœuf at BOZAR, Brussels.
Persephassa, premiered in 1969, has established itself as a definitive classic in the percussion repertoire. It was premiered in 1969 in Iran by its dedicatees, the Percussions de Strasbourg. The 6 percussionists are placed in a ring around the audience, which is thus enclosed in these currents carried by the music. The trajectories cross or evolve according to a sound choreography staged by the composer. Before a game of increasing and decreasing waterfalls, rhythms twirling in space and chaotic clouds of sound unfolds, the sextet’s timpani rolls call Persephassa in an incantation. Through a progressive acceleration, the music will transport the audience in a gigantic whirlwind. If this «tourniquet» evokes the dance of whirling dervishes, Xenakis does not aim at trance: sudden cuts, brief but unpredictably distributed, bring the listener out of his torpor at the end.
⏰ Concert at 8pm.
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