CREATION 2014/15 THIS IS NOT A DREAM Magic Lantern for Satie/Cage ! Louise MOATY, Conception and Projections Alexeï LUBIMOV, Pianos ! Executive producer I Fondation Royaumont Co-production I Théâtre de l’incrédule, IMEC Abbaye d’Ardenne - Caen, Théâtre de Caen, Maison de la Musique Nanterrre Residencies l Abbaye de Noirlac CCR, Scène nationale d’Orléans with the precious help of Compagnie Les Rémouleurs, technical stuff of the Théâtre de Caen, FormaTTec – Porrentruy (Switzerland) OPTICAL CONCERT In her singular makery, Louise Moaty reinvents a new type of dialogue between image and music. Linked to pre-cinema, object theatre or cinetic art, the shadow play and projections of her magic lantern interact with the pieces for piano of Erik Satie and John Cage, to create a dreamlike musical landscape, and open new dimensions full of surprises… Contact production / diffusion : Compagnie Louise Moaty Elisabeth Le Coënt
[email protected] / +33 6 10 77 20 25 From Satie to Cage… Erik Satie, John Cage: two composers who surveyed the full range of music’s potential, and between whom one can discern the horizon of a musical landscape whose perspectives were clearly identified by Satie in his role as the father of modern music. Following in the footsteps of a creator for whom his admiration knew no bounds, the American composer and visual artist John Cage embarked on his own explorations, asserting the artistic filiation of the two men. In this school of free inquiry, the keyboard plays the role at once of playing field and testing ground. By turns ludic, esoteric, meditative or absurd, provocative, tender or explosive, but always poetic, the music of Satie and Cage – played here on piano, prepared piano, or toy piano – seems to transport us according to the whims of a witty and mysterious mechanism conceived to dream itself into existence.