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This second part of the Portrait dedicated to Cassandra Miller associates Dad Goes to the Mountain, a quadriptych to be performed uninterrupted, dedicated to her aged, increasingly forgetful father with the themes of childhood and death. It mirrors the arc of our existences, to which Ravel and Kurtág lend themselves.
A mixture of solos, duos and trios, collage, mobile, and sound sculpture, Chroma scatters instrumental ensembles, turntables and dozens of music boxes across the space. Listeners are invited to wander around these living and mechanical islands, each a source of limitless perspectives, whilst the Grand Palais in turn shapes the work and makes it unique.
Five works, historical or recent, for entering into sound and seemingly immobile and continuous textures—and for experiencing, in an intimate way, rich vibrations and fissions beneath the monochrome surface. Inside the Saint-Eustache church, organ, ensemble and electronics give life to intricate meshes, dissolutions and secret movements.
