Le Balcon

Pedro García Velásquez (1984) 
Fête dans le vide - Théâtre Acoustique II (2015)
for soprano, chamber orchestra, electronics and 3D sound diffusion system

We discover a character "in an intermediate space, between two worlds. As the piece progresses, the young woman narrates her mental journey into an increasingly distant past. With the fragmented, anachronistic and illogical time of memory, the piece develops a poetic vision of death and the passage between the living world and the afterlife. Where one might celebrate access to the other world, the character sings to us of the remnants of a lost existence. Acoustic Theatre II: Party in the void, like a celebration of the irreversible." A party – it seemed obvious, because there is much to rejoice about when one encounters, beyond a work of art, its indisputable posterity.