Philippe Schoeller

"ARCHAOS INFINITA III"

for 12 directed drums,
 & Electronics with IPhones / Smartphones,
 played and spatialised by the public.

duration: 8 - 9 min.

Continuing the cycle "Archaos Infinita, I and II", for 12 directed percussions,
this third score was written for the 12 living musicians of the Paris Percussion Group, allied
to a score composed of materials intended to be heard
on loudspeakers.

Created on September 21, 2018, on the occasion of the opening
from "La Scala", in Paris. P.P.G. is directed by Julien Leroy.

Each and everyone of the public triggers the electronic parts from his smartphone.
It's the conductor who gives the starting points.
The nature of electronic music opens space and distorts time.
One of the conceptions of electronic matter was to succeed in constructing a
certain "acoustic refinement": the one inherent
to the very nature of the broadcasting instrument: a simple smartphone.
Lightweight. Discreet. Even though usually we have to turn them off in concert, here,
it is absolutely necessary to light them!

This defect thus tries to become quality. Because distribution and distribution
space, thin and flexible, smartphones, as well as cascades of triggers
- by each and every one of the public - sound sources, open
the frontal perception of scenes with a multidimensional radiation.

Archaic, essential, primal, fundamental nature of hearing: space and texture.
 The infinity of heaven and the nobility of the Earth.

I would like to thank Christophe Lebreton, from Grame, for
his availability, his competence and his kindness, lights by
which he offers us the possible to hear
this new work that combines the gesture of the musician, infinite of organic beauty
subtle and invisible theater of technology; this world
capricious because paradoxically archaic.


Ph. S. Paris, August 27, 2018