Salvatore Sciarrino
" La Bocca, I Piedi, Il Suono "
Quartet Xasax and a hundred saxophonists of Isere


Thursday November 25, 2004 l 20h
MC2 : Grenoble - Cabaret Métis - Salle de création


Quartet Xasax : Marcus Weiss (soprano saxophone), Pierre-Stephan Meugé (alto saxophone), Jean-Michel Goury (saxophone tenor), Serge Bertocchi (saxophone baritone)


This project gathers the quartet Xasax and a hundred saxophonists of Isere around the interpretation of a work all in subtleties. The music of Salvatore Sciarrino treats the sound event like a living organism: it starts in extreme cases of unperceivable, with the borders of silence, where are born the general phenomena from the life. Thus, each sound experiment, even infinitesimal, fills up our deepest being. The force of its music undoubtedly lies in this border fragile and this breathing between its and silence, shade and light, empty and full, interior and external. The listener wakes up with the listening of delicate sonorities, rediscovers the noises of nature, the mystery of the human voice…


Corealisation : CNR / 38e Rugissants