The title L'esquive refers to the way to escape surreptitiously from a situation or a place, to slip into the interstices, to disappear and perhaps reappear elsewhere.

It is about going to see the other side of the walls, whether they are material or mental, perhaps both at the same time, to glimpse other worlds, other imaginary landscapes.

The performance is a conversation between Dominique Pifarély on the violin and his electroacoustic device, extending the initial sound material of the musical composition.

The installation seeks to blend into the garden's setting, into its memory, to color it in a certain way through sound.

The compositional work begins with the constitution of a sound palette followed by the creation of dynamic temporal and spatial behaviors of the musical forms resulting from this palette. Small, non-visible sound sources are integrated into the vegetation and furniture of the garden: on the ground, the sound moves according to the shapes of the plantations, volutes, squares, etc. In the bushes, at mid-height, the sound delimits a listening territory. In the trees, the sound projected towards the ground builds a kind of canopy...

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L'esquive
Cécile Le Prado
Residence
Thu. Feb. 3 + Fri. 4, 2022
Mon. 21 -- Fri. 25 March 2022
Fri. 15 -- Sun. 24 April 2022
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Cécile Le Prado
composition

Dominique Pifarély
violin and electronics in real time

Gaëtan Parseihian
computer music production

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