De Grands Z of the Jean-Christophe Feldandler Darkness for string quartet and reciting, 1998) only in American black novel and free jazz (Snafu, for 4 percussionists, a drummer and a trombonist, 2000) or even in traditional Japanese music (Propice Paths for 4 percussionists, 2004) or in spectral music (Enlargement of Heaven and electronics, 2001). Not hesitating to shock the atmospheres, to make meet distant universes and to mix instruments as diverse as a piano, a steel drum, a melodica, an electric guitar and plastic bottles (A Light, for 4 percussionists, 1999) or a musical saw, a Hammond organ, a guimbarde, a computer, a rock drums, etc. (Snafu, ibid.), the sound world of Jean-Christophe Feldhandler is of extraordinary richness, playing with hierarchies between the music and instruments used, following in this the lesson of John Cage for whom «the shells of Australia are as musical as violins». However, it is a loving approach to music, which can take such diverse forms especially since we can hear through the recordings, through the concerts but also through the new means of communication, so many musics and reports to the sound, so many expressions and vibratory materials. There is both jubilation and contemplation in this composer's music, in this dual movement that allows both joy and gravity, both research and affirmation, both citation and novelty.
Recorded live in Aubusson on April 23, 2011
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Martine Altenburger, Tiziana Bertoncini, Isabelle Duthoit, Carl Ludwig Hübsch, Géraldine Keller, Lê Quan Ninh, Thomas Lehn, Thierry Madiot, Angelika Sheridan