Mirrors on the Atlantic - With Brightwork Newmusic Ensemble - cancelled

For the continuation of its American adventures, TM+ is organizing a double encounter between performers and composers over the Atlantic swells. Two orchestral ensembles, three American composers and one French adoptee: as many cultures and aesthetics between which will circulate reciprocal listening.

Brightwork newmusic performs Alexandra Gardner’s Migrations, an energetic and fluid piece that dashes between clouds of percussion, on the large scale of animal migrations as well as on the microscopic drifts of molecular movements.

Brightwork newmusic and TM+ confront each other on Alexandros Markeas’ Psycho, a nocturnal wandering in New York for two septets and a multimedia device, a sometimes convulsive coming and going of textures, images and references.

Hugh Levick’s Shards, created by TM+, is a game of multiple reflections on the meaning of history and catastrophe between Angelus Novus – a watercolor by Paul Klee – Walter Benjamin’s commentary on it, and their musical interpretation today.

Steve Reich is probably the most American of all, promoter of a music called repetitive, symbol of a music that escaped Europe on this side of the Atlantic. His Double Sextet brings the two ensembles together in a familiar chase.