Lost Places
Pedro García-Velásquez, Benjamin Lazar
Lieux Perdus, for 4 singers, chamber orchestra, electronics and binaural listening device (2014)
Lieux Perdus is a sound theater that plays on the evocative power of sound to conjure up imaginary places. The musical composition is based on a theatrical dramaturgy, inviting the listener to create an imaginary wandering in and through sound. A map of the places “visited” is distributed as a program, inviting the listener to ramble along the boundary between evocation of landscapes and pure music.
Each listener is equipped with headphones: three-dimensional immersive sound transports us to an ancient land, as if from a forgotten tale or story. A church, a ruined castle, a nocturnal plain, a courtyard in the morning all possess their own music.
The musicians play live, and their sound is “transported” by computer tools to these places, with its qualities of resonance (echoes on walls, confinement, open air) and disturbance (wind noise, footsteps, voices...).
Authors Pedro García-Velásquez
Benjamin Lazarcette incorporates excerpts from Gabrieli's
Symphoniae Sacrae 1615
Computer production Augustin Muller
Sound design Pedro Garcia-Velasquez, Jean Marc-Lyzwa, Augustin Muller
Sound design staging Jean Marc-Lyzwa
Choice of Gabrieli motets Pedro Garcia-Velasquez, Maxime Pascal
Sound projection device design Florent Derex
Lighting design Camille Mauplot
Graphic design carte Loïc Le Gall
Soprano voices, 2 alto voices, tenor voices.
Flute, Clarinet, Saxophone, Bassoon, 2 Horns, Trumpet, Percussion, Positive organ, Violin, 2 Violas, Cello, Double bass
Premiere by Le Balcon in December 2014 at the Fondation Singer-Polignac, then premiere of the second version at the Théâtre de Compiègne in 2015.
Published by BabelScores.