Les Chemins de Traverse - Dragonfly (2019)

A small pocket dragon, the dragonfly is capable of hovering as much as dizzying changes of direction of speed. On its back, nestled between its shimmering wings, we will go through ponds and steppes ... under the sun or in the mist, in the middle of the hill or in height, what will the landscape, each time different, look like from our strange mount?

For the Shaman, the dragonfly is an illusion of the senses; it is she who tells us that reality is only an illusion and that our illusions are sometimes more true than reality. To imagine what the world looks like through its countless faces, Diagon Alley wrap the sounds of their instruments with unfathomable mysteries. Is it really the sound of a flute that we hear there? And this persistent sound, is there or do we just imagine it? Is it important to know? Maybe it is enough to close your eyes to see better through those of the dragonfly ...

Behind this game on the illusion lies a state-of-the-art device: the sound of the various flutes is modified, repeated, triturated in real time by a computer equipped with software specially developed for the occasion. This allows the performers to combine the flexibility and richness of expression of traditional violin instruments with the literally unheard of possibilities of electronics ...