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Timelessness is an "artistic and political manifesto", in favor of the body, its enhancement, and the expression of gestures and postures in musical practice. Thierry De Mey reveals his self-portrait by bringing together old and new pieces, surrounded by the Percussions de Strasbourg. The famous Musique de Tables uses only hands, fingers, nails, and palms on a tabletop stage. In Hands, which opened Wim Vandekeybus's What the Body Does Not Remember, the percussionists follow the original choreography.
"Reflections on temporalities, spectral iridescence on instruments tuned in micro-intervals, tangled pulsations, waves, double pendulums, gravitational waves and the spirit of Atlajala taking possession of the souls and bodies of the living creatures in Paul Bowles' circular valley, or the ocean in Solaris." - Thierry De Mey
Les Percussions de Strasbourg
Thierry De Mey composition and concept
Minh-Tâm Nguyen artistic direction
Minh-Tâm Nguyen, Alexandre Esperet, Olivia Martin, François Papirer, Thibaut Weber, Enrico Pedicone, Hsin-Hsuan Wu, Rémi Schwartz performers
François Deppe musical creation collaboration
Thomas Guerry spatial installation
Manuela Rastaldi gesture coaching
Executive production and commission Les Percussions de Strasbourg. Festival Musica co-production.
The composer received support for the writing of an original musical work from the Ministry of Culture and from the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Service général de la Création artistique. With the support of the Fondation Francis et Mica Salabert and the Fondation Aquatique Show.
Coproduced by IRCAM/Les Spectacles vivants-Centre Pompidou.