Creation: 8 october 2003 at Musica festival, Strasbourg
Musicians: 6 percussionnists
Duration: 6′
“Archaos is a cycle of 5 pieces for 6 percussionists and sound material of “digital lutherie”, synthetic material elaborated, forged and realised on these new instruments for composers in the 21st century, which are computers.
Archaos 1 opens the heart of the cycle. However, at present no loudspeaker here, only the living, complex, unstable and subtle qualities of each musician in contact with the sound bodies can be heard. The loudspeakers will follow, afterwards. Feel, the senses on the lookout, hunting and fleetingly capturing sensations and their perceptual contours, then understanding, taking this sensory journey to oneself, metamorphosing it into a mental experience. Thus the archaic universal experience of this so singular perception that leads us from sound to music. Like light leads us to enchantment, when it comes from the stars, or radiates from a child’s eyes, for example”. Philippe Schoeller