French ensemble, Proxima Centauri, presents Mouvements, a concert programme that creates a space for dialogue between the sound textures brought by electronics and the live interpretation of the instrumentalist. The artist’s sensitive presence contrasts with the spatially diffused electronic sound surrounding the listener, and offers multiple forms of dialogue, juxtaposition and conflict. The instrumentalists confront and merges with the sound, making electroacoustic music take on an almost sculptural aspect. The coexistence of these two sound worlds allows the listener, or perhaps more accurately, spectator, to be at the heart of the musical discourse and its poetry.
Mouvements are tangible elusive and omnipresent. It gives life, rhythm, and meaning to everything around us. From the most discreet gesture to the most powerful wave, it is the flow that crosses bodies and minds. It becomes abstraction in a painting, melody in a symphony, or simple balance in our daily actions, whether consciously perceived or not. It is embodied in dance, true gestural poetry. It animates nature, with the breath of the wind or the regularity of the tides, and unites crowds, whether in collective fervour or common struggle.
Mouvements are also the flow of ideas, cultures, and history—currents that illuminate our understanding of the world. It is the very essence of life, a constant reminder that nothing is still, just like the universe.
