Antoine Läng (voice) – Brice Catherin (cello) – Brooks Giger (doublebass) – Christian Müller (contrabass clarinet) – Christophe Berthet (saxophone, conduction n°2) – Christoph Schiller (spinet, conduction n°1) – Cyril Bondi (floor tom, cymbal) – d’incise (objects, conduction n°3) – Denis Beuret (trombone) – Dragos Tara (doublebass) – Edmée Fleury (voice) – Eric Ruffing (theremin, analog electronics) – Fabrice Pittet (ac. guitar, voice, perc.) – Filippo Provenzale (percussions) – Frédéric Minner (elec. bass) – Florence Melnotte (keyboard) – Ganesh Geymeier (saxophone) – Gianluca Ruggeri (function generator) – Gérald Zbinden (ac.& elec. guitars) – Guy Bettini (trumpet) – Hannah Marshall (cello) – Heike Fiedler (voice) – Igor Cubrilovic (acoustic resonator guitar) – Ivan Verda (elec. guitar, buzuki) – Jamasp Jhabvala (violin) – Jonas Kocher (accordion) – Loïc Grobéty (piano strings elec. bass) – Marcel Chagrin (elec. guitar) – Nicolas Raufaste (ac. guitar) – Olga Kokcharova (typewriter, voice) – Patricia Bosshard (violin, conduction n°5) – Phonotopy (tennis raquet) – Raphaël Ortis (elec. bass) – Richard Jean (elec. guitar) – Rodolphe Loubatière (percussions, conduction n°4) – Simon Berz (d.i.y. instruments, electronic) – Steve Buchanan (saxophone, elec. guitar) – Thierry Simonot (electronics) – Thomas Peter (laptop) – Vinz Vonlanthen (elec. guitar, banjo)
Recorded at La Parfumerie, Geneva, 3-4-5.08.2011 by Antoine Etter
From the, expected, mess of the first concerts emerged a collective consciousness and involvement from the impressive number of musicians included in this ambitious projet. After a year – and 7 concerts – 40 of them met during 3 day during the 2011 summer, marking a sensitive step in the orchestra progression. Working deeply a certain amount of pieces – concepts and conductions – appeared a new sound quality, a opening of the space, a fragility of the volume, a more electroacoustique, minimal, « concrète » direction. The orchestra started to think as an an emsemble, with multiple components but looking to project a unique/common sound, to look for details, restraint, variable densities, breathes, drones, subbasses…
The alternation of « free » and « conducted » improvisation was from the begining a manner to test various pathes of collective… more