RuptuR uses a large-scale musical form to create a machine with a rock feel, made up of motifs and patterns that are constantly repeated and renewed, exploring their own colours, spaces and temporalities. The aim is to achieve both the hypnotic effect of repetition and an uplifting movement and emotional tension that builds to a breaking point.
This machine, launched at full throttle, unfurls for over an hour until it comes to a screeching halt, as if broken by its own exhaustion, suddenly plunging us into a silent suspension inhabited by a very deep drone, creating an unexpected vertigo.
What happens in the listener’s body and mind at the moment of rupture? Is the stopping of the machine a liberation, a frustration, or both?
⏰ Concert at 8:30pm
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Original compositions by Benjamin de la Fuente and Samuel Sighicelli
Caravaggio
Bruno Chevillon, double bass, electric bass, electronics
Benjamin de la Fuente, violin, electric guitar, objects, electronics
Éric Échampard, drums, electronic pad, objects
Samuel Sighicelli, electric organ, analogue synthesiser, sampler
Les Percussions de Strasbourg
Théo His-Mahier, multi-percussion
Lou Renaud-Bailly, multi-percussion
Emil Kuyumcuyan, multi-percussion
Christophe Schaeffer, lighting design
Vanessa Court, sound
Laurent Fournaise, technical management
Delegated production: Sphota
Festival Musica is co-commissioner of the work composed by Samuel Sighicelli and Benjamin de la Fuente.
Coproduction: Les Percussions de Strasbourg, GRAME, CCAM scène nationale de Vandoeurve-les-Nancy, Festival Musica.