Pendulum Choir wins award in Tokyo

Pendulum Choir is an original choral work for 9 a capella voices and 18 hydraulic cylinders. The choir, placed on tilting platforms, forms a moving whole, a living sound body of which the singers are the organic particles. It expresses itself through several physical states. Its plasticity is transformed at the whim of its sonority, sometimes abstract, repetitive or figurative, sometimes lyrical and narrative.

Bodies and their voices play with and against the force of gravity. They brush up against and around each other in subtle vocal polyphony, then, supported by synthetic sounds, break their cohesion and burst into lyrical flights of fancy, or withdraw into a dark, obsessive ritual. The organ journeys from life to death in a robotic allegory where technological complexity and the lyricism of bodies in motion combine in a work with Promethean overtones.

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Photo: Xavier Voirol