Symphonie pour une Femme Seule

The Symphonie pour une Femme Seule is an intermedia and collective work by Brice Catherin (composition and coordination), Mélissa Garcia Carro (video), Irene Gil Lopez (art installation), Emilia Giudicelli (video) and Manon Parent (performance art).

This event will run from 17:00-20:00.

The musicians are:

Simon Desbruslais, trumpets, piano and voice;
Ensemble Fractus: Simon Ashmead (voice), Alex Dexter-Mills (violin), Erin Catherine Marsh (flute); Rebecca Stone (cello), George Sztuka (violin) and James Waide (violin);
Also, with Hannah Firmin (clarinet), Colin Frank (percussion), Ilona Krawczyk (voice), Bethany Nicholson (cello), Irine Røsnes (violin), Pablo Salamanca (electronics), Dejana Sekulic (violin), Mark Slater (fender rhodes) and Pierre-Alexandre Tremblay (bass).

Ilona Krawczyk also directed the musicians for Manon Parent’s performance art moment le Baiser par Contagion.
Mark Slater also trained Ensemble Fractus.
Alex Dexter-Mills and Sophie Fetokaki are also general assistants, allowing many practical things to simply happen.

Special thanks to Tony Courts, Aled Edwards and Gary Mitchell.

It is a work about freedom, about idiosyncrasies, about being oneself, about discovering oneself, about trust, about being together, about discovering the other, about sound, about images, about space, about shimmering fires, about beauty in all things, about listening, watching and feeling, about transfiguration, about giving oneself to the world, about love.

I believe the Symphonie pour une Femme Seule is the first stone of a new aesthetic I’d like to describe as “extravagant minimalism”. It is like a long, quiet walk in the mountain on a fresh but sunny day, alongside a person you love. This person is either by your side or in your heart, it does not matter.

Our quiet walk passes through these different landscapes:

. Bubble Seats, art installation (designed by Irene Gil Lopez);
. Seven (or more) Hammer Ladies, for Ensemble Fractus (composed by Brice Catherin);
. Four Piano Strings, part 1: on the Keyboard, for Simon Desbruslais (composed by Brice Catherin);
. Movement IV, part 1: Verklärte Tag, for all the musicians (composed by Brice Catherin);
. Movement IV, part 2: Unknown Combination, for all the musicians (composed by Brice Catherin), happening together with le Baiser par Contagion, for all the musicians (performance art moment written by Manon Parent and directed by Ilona Krawczyk);
. Four Piano Strings, part 2: on the Strings, for Simon Desbruslais (composed by Brice Catherin);
. ∏, for Simon Desbruslais (written by Brice Catherin);
. Bubble Seats.

“(…) I aspire to nothing more in this existence than getting by fine while having pleasure, that is to say, to say things with a bit more dignity, strength and elegance: the essential, plus love!” (Robert Walser)

(photography by Charlotte Norman.)

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