'Isotropes'. Such a title requires a clear explanation. In science, a material is isotropic when it has the same properties in all directions. In this case, it is a metaphor for the musical sources that surround the public and are assimilated into the whole. Electronics, the isotropic manipulator used here, occupies a central position and unites sixteen voices and four saxophones in a colourful mixture of early and contemporary music, with Jonathan Harvey, Eric Sleichim, Matheus de Sancto Johanne and Petrus Abaelardus on the bill. Breath, the driving force behind the very first music, ensures a link between the two. Eric Sleichim, curator of music@venture, wrote his 'Isotropes de l'ombre' on the basis of a text by Leonardo Da Vinci in Old Tuscan. He describes how the fading of the sound of a bell is a phenomenon which mainly takes place in the ear. The continual interaction between the saxes and the choir promises a concert which literally and figuratively exhales contemplation.
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