The monster which never breathes / 2011

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This breathing monster is about stilness and the powerful presence of the sound : the apparent stilness of the dancer whose microscopic movements are based on the intense activity of her deep-breathing, and the sheer weight of the sounds produced by the bass as transformed – in real time – by the computer, and also disturbed by the data-noise created by the dancers minimal gestures. During those 50 minutes we are not building a trajectory, nor suggesting an evolution, but being in a state of internal combustion. Not composition but architecture of dust or just one, deep and long, breath.

This piece evolved from a previous work, « The monster which never breathes », which was written for an electronically manipulated pipe organ, dance and which started our research on what we call the « data-noise ».