Sonia Wieder-Atherton's concert in Autun in the heart of Saint-Lazare cathedral.
"Odyssey for Cello and Imaginary Choir is a performance for cello and soundtrack. Imagine a circle. In this circle, a single woman speaks, shouts, whispers. To the earth, to the gods, to herself. She confronts a soundtrack: the sirens of boats, the crickets in the burning sun, the murmurs of crowds, the breath, the waves, the storm, the chaos... in a dreamlike time in thirteen adventures built around the music of Bach, Prokofiev, Aperghis and also Berber, Egyptian, Syrian and Byzantine folk...
"Odyssey for Cello and Imaginary Choir is a performance for cello and soundtrack. Imagine a circle. In this circle, a single woman speaks, shouts, whispers. To the earth, to the gods, to herself. She confronts a soundtrack: the sirens of boats, the crickets in the burning sun, the murmurs of crowds, the breath, the waves, the storm, the chaos... in a dreamlike time in thirteen adventures built around the music of Bach, Prokofiev, Aperghis and also Berber, Egyptian, Syrian and Byzantine folk songs. The show was created in 2012 in Aix-en-Provence. It has toured in France and abroad. In large and small theatres, in historical places with natural settings, and also in the open air. Each time he reinvents himself, adapts. The images that emerge, often cinematographic, completely fill the place. From now on, I would like my Odyssey to go and meet scattered words. I would like to go to different cities, to different regions. To meet people with whom I would spend time and with whom I would share my Odyssey. With them, to record sound material that would populate the Odyssey and its soundtrack. Each place hosting the show would thus be the origin of a variation of the Odyssey which would become the Odyssey of that place, of those people.
