Ensemble Phœnix Basel

Collective composition is a definition still regarded today with some skepticism. Musical hierarchies encountered throughout the history of western music have turned musicians and composers into highly specialized entities, whose point of contact often gravitates on the materialisation of a score. In this collaboration, we propose a more horizontal approach, seeking to blur the traditional roles of musical agents – from performers and composers to audiences and all the participants in the process of creating and listening to a musical work. (Gustavo Costa)

To the untrained ear, every instrument has its own timbre. But what happens when you delve into the inner workings of an instrument?
Using contact microphones as well as microphones placed inside the instruments, Stanislas Pili makes the subtlest vibrations, resonances, and preparations audible and amplifies them in the concert hall. From the “microcosm” of sound emerges a musical “macrocosm” that offers the audience a new perspective on the Ensemble Phoenix Basel. (Stanislas Pili)

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