selected audience/concert pour primates

Vendredi 24 oct, au Zoo de Vincennes, devant l'enclos des babouins, unique performance d'impro libre acoustique, proposé par ETC. = Anthony C. HarS Rébus Jean Bordé MONKEY BUSINESS, ETC. On the afternoon of friday 24th we performed in the parisian zoological garden, the Zoo de Vincennes, dressed at our sunday's best. (I overheard at least one of the girls among our human listeners snigger that we ourselves were the monkees ... ) Our first set was for the zoo's community of baboons. We then turned around for a second set, performed explicitly for Chimène the Gibbon, a very shy ape, but a fantastic singer. It was very special indeed to experience the mingling of the sounds from our dictaphones, the sound of Anthony's guitar, that of Jean's double bass, and the metallic percussion hit and bowed by Rebus and myself, with the sounds of the zoo around us. The garden and the animals were like a fifth instrument, and our performance indeed spun itself into the intricate web of relations that we had intended, heralding in its own modest way the transition of contemporary art into a new altermodern era ... permalink: http://www.harsmedia.com/SoundBlog/Archief/00654.php Lire dans Rue89 : http://tinyurl.com/558v7l ETC. in "MONKEY BUSINESS" :: LA POST-MUSIQUE DEVIENT ALTERMODERNE ... --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Extrait du chant de la Gibbon "Chimène":