Musical piece for laptop and performance, 2004
Original title : Vers Agrippine
To Agrippine is based on the very beginning of Handel’s opera Agrippina. It is performed as a solo piece, and it has been initially created as the overture of the theater play Agrippina – stage version to be performed anywhere, directed by Frédéric Fisbach – which was also played before the opera itself.
This piece experimented for the first time with a concept of time depth: a real time navigation through the temporality of music. An extremely slow gesture with the mouse produces a simultaneous navigation through three musical layers: the first orchestral part of the opera overture, the first spoken sentence in the recitatives, and the first soprano aria. This slow-motion movement within the musical materials reveals their lines of forces and details, as the aerial approach to a landscape.
To Agrippine has been performed recently for the opening of the exhibitionFermata in Kawenga (Montpellier, France), on October 23th, 2009.
Extract (2007)
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