Ensemble SuperMusique: Géométries aléatoires

About this event

Productions SuperMusique explores the boundless trails of music creation and innovation through a tonic and playful concert performed by 10 musicians from Ensemble SuperMusique. Here, random geometries are revealed as much by the open-ended act of music notation than by the great freedom of interpretation allowed. Down with sonic straightjackets! Chance and control, continuity and discontinuity, order and chaos unfold, with no hierarchy, through space and time.

Expert musicians will explore new canvases, graphic scores, texts, and card games written or drawn by composers Sandeep Bhagwati, Malcolm Goldstein, Diane Labrosse, and Jesse Stewart. They will also perform a score by Danielle Palardy Roger, and an excerpt from John Cage’s Atlas Eclipticalis (1961/62) — randomness is a key feature in the works of this great American composer, poet, and visual artist (Ensemble SuperMusique presents here a 10-minute version and, as suggested by Cage, the performance ranges between minimum activity (silence) and maximum activity (what is written)). Games of chance with a risk of addiction. All floodgates open!