Secret recipe
Potion for falling in love with contemporary music
A potion to make time stand still !
This elixir is a skilful blend of chants and incantations from the Middle Ages to the present day. Its effect is to bewitch people with the charm of murmurs past and present, rustlings that blur stylistic boundaries, and melodic formulas that travel through time.
Sound transmutations, strolls, subtle invitations to dance, lyrical flights and emotional processes expressed in music are the vectors of this alchemical potion.
The desired effect is an inner sparkle, a feeling of awakening, even of becoming accustomed to contemporary music. The vibrations generated by the power, expressiveness and incandescence of the voices and percussion present fuel the sensations provoked by this recipe.
Warning :
There have been reports of people falling in love with contemporary music at first sight!
Ingredients:
• 1 motet-conductus from Codex de las Huelgas
• 3 Choruses for Children’s Voices by Maurice Ohana
• 3 motets from the Llibre Vermell by Montserrat
• 1 canon from the Reliquary of English Song
• 1 Litanie by Giacinto Scelsi
• 2 dances from the Llibre Vermell by Montserrat
• 1 canon op. 113 by Johannes Brahms
• 1 Witch’s Song by Alison Bold
• 2 doubles canons :
- Sauh IV by Giacinto Scelsi
- Canon n.13 op. 113 by Johannes Brahms
• 1 Memento Mori by Daniel Alvarado Bonilla
The preparation
1 Mix a medieval monody with a twentieth century double canon, a motet-conductus with a contemporary lullaby, an Afro-Cuban incantation with spectral music, and a danse macabre with a recent composition.
2 Leave the medieval monodies to stand using a little contemporary music. You will thus obtain old composition techniques suited to a modern musical language.
3 Finally, let it resonate for 50 minutes without a break in a space where witches and enchantresses wander around, appropriating the place. This potion with its surprising effects is the product of an alchemy of ancient and contemporary music, in a timeless fusion of sacred and pagan music.
To be consumed without restraint !