The Orient of Dreams
Muriel Ferraro Soprano
Nicolas Fargeix Clarinet
Julien Le Pape Piano
Ming-Yu Weng Percussion
Noëmi Schindler Violin
David Simpson Cello
Laurent Cuniot Conductor
The listening journey is a non-stop cruise, an experience, an exploration where everyone, on stage as well as in the hall, listens to the flow of time travel through the landscape of climates.
The Orient of dreams is the Orient of Western fantasies, the dreamlike composition of a sonic trace that has meandered since the troubadours on the shores of the Mediterranean and the Levant. This journey of listening was established by the composer Henry Fourès on the occasion of the creation of his piece for voice, percussion and small instrumental ensemble. Trobar is to find, to compose, to poetize like a troubadour, to bring up in our memories and our senses, all that was mixed with the East a thousand years ago and crossed us with the liking of the time which passes and sediment.
The program plays a game of the mind based on the Occitan language and its sounds. The Arabo-Andalusian traditions, those of flamenco and fandango, guitars and voices, resurface in Scarlatti, Padre Soler, Granados or de Falla. The East is rooted in the rhythms of the Turkish composer Ahmet Adnan Saygun. Even more extreme – and perhaps more dreamlike – is the Orient of Giacinto Scelsi, who is fascinated by the spirituality, the material and the sound scales of that place.
To each his own Orient, heard since the travelling troubadours as an extraordinary adventure. It is up to each listener of the Journey of Listening to orient himself, as if on a mental map created especially for him.
Crédit photographique Brent Miller