Parallallemande
2007
According to Thomas Hauert, “I’ve superimposed two recordings, one version performed by a violin, the other by a trumpet. Performances that are different in colour, dynamic and tempo as the two instruments offer specific qualities while posing certain limits. Listening simultaneously to the two presents a very particular aural experience. Outside of the obvious appearance of counterpoints, harmonies and dissonances, it’s as if the movement of the music (the melody, its dynamics) is lived spatially in our heads. At times, in order to follow both instruments, our attention is split in two; or we hear new strains because we missed a change in the melody and slid from one instrument to another without noticing. The dance is a bodily and spatial interpretation of the music, proposing a visualization of the phenomenon experienced while listening. However, the relationship to the music can also be seen as ‘interactive’ or reversible: the music proposing an ‘audiolization’ of the dance.”
Concept & direction Thomas Hauert
Created & presented by Thomas Hauert and Chrysa Parkinson/Mat Voorter
Music J.S. Bach, Allemande from Partita ||, BWV 1004 (Alison Balsom: Trumpet / Antal Szalai: Violin)
Light design Jan Van Gijsel, Thomas Hauert
Production ZOO/Thomas Hauert
Coproduction Kaaitheater, Brussels (BE)

