SBS1 - Les Danceurs Fous
« On July 14, 1518, in the streets of Strasbourg, a young woman began dancing for no reason, without music, without stopping for six days... Following her lead, hundreds of people also began dancing. Was it an epidemic? Mass hysteria? The documentary 'Les danseurs fous' (directed by Benoit Finck, produced by Point du Jour/France Télévision) places this story in its historical context and reviews all the popular, scientific, and psychological hypotheses that could explain this mysterious phenomenon. 500 years later, in the same place, Snowdrops provides the musical accompaniment to this investigation through the ages, creating a new trance with the help of an original set of instruments. In this excerpt “Cloister Dance", the duo explores a frenetic liberation combining harpsichord and ondes Martenot, which could be described as post-baroque, or even medieval punk. »
Cloister Dance
Live recording by Snowdrops on October 23, 2018
Christine Ott : Ondes Martenot
Mathieu Gabry : Harpsichord
Excerpt from the soundtrack composed for the documentary film 'Les Danseurs Fous' (2019)
SBS2 - For Rin Bells
In April 2018, while visiting the Musikmesse trade show in Frankfurt, we had the pleasure of discovering the masterful craftsmanship of Tadahiro Negishi and his team, the RIN Bells — small traditional Japanese bells and their keyboard-controlled version. A few months before Tadahiro designed a custom instrument for our neighbors 'Les Percussions de Strasbourg', he kindly lent us one of his prototypes, which we then used to create a piece at Silent Green in Berlin. These recordings are part of our experiments with these very unique bells.
For Rin 凜 Bells
Recorded by Snowdrops in June 2018
Christine Ott : Rin Bells (1,2,4), Ondes Martenot (2,6)
Mathieu Gabry : Keyboards (2), Piano (2,4), Harmonium (6), Rin Bells (3,5,6)
Automated Rin Bells Random Loops on 6
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