Le Cercle du son (The Circle of Sound) is a performance created for the reopening of the Palais de la Découverte. Floy Krouchi has conceived a slow, resonant piece, akin to a contemporary alap (the alap is the opening and slowest section of a traditional Indian rāga). The piece invites the audience to hear space and time through the unfolding of low frequencies and the slow oscillations of the FKBass, a bass instrument enhanced with electronics. The musician will be accompanied by the circular visual of The Snail, a software program developed by researchers in the Sound Systems and Signals: Audio/Acoustics, Instruments team at IRCAM, which musically reveals the spectral and frequency analysis of the sound generated in real-time.
The audience is placed inside the sound, within the “circle of sound” and its harmonics, to grasp the microtonalities induced by the meend (the gradual glide from one note to another) and the use of subtle intervals, attentive to the unfolding of this electronic and contemporary rāga: pitch transpositions, spectral and poetic transformations, textures and sonic materials...
Floy Krouchi concept, composition, FKBass, and voice
Thomas Hélie, Robert Piéchaud, Ircam-STMS development and projection of The Snail
Benjamin Pagier sound design
Jean François Domingues lighting design