Alter ego

For his first work at IRCAM, Clemens Gadenstätter uses the accordion to modify the listening context through electronics. His work uses sounds found on the internet, traces of a cultural experience, and a memory. The electric body of Claudia Jane Scroccaro's piece is that of a double bass player embracing his instrument. To this double bass, Francesca Verunelli adds the accordion. In bianco e nero achieves the exact opposite of mixed music: to bring out the properties of instrumental and electronic sound, difference and autonomy rather than fusion. Finally, the premiere of a work by Yan Maresz that remains a rarity. Solicited for a long time by his friend Jean-François Heisser, Maresz creates this furtive and lively duet for piano and virtual instrument that makes space sound like a physical instrument.