Dawning by Michael Winter, in collaboration with Bastien Pouillès – CoPeCo final concert

Dawning, a performance-installation for accordion, visual installation and electronics – WP

Michael Winter: composition, installation, electronics
Bastien Pouillès: original idea, accordion, co-composition

In this piece, Bastien continues to explore the possibilities of the performance-installation, in which the performer takes place on stage with other elements like objects, visuals and so on, and are equally important. He also studies the ambiguity as a musical aesthetics. According to him, by its characteristics and its possibilities of the sound production, the accordion is the instrument of the ambiguity.

The original idea was to represent something surrealistic on stage, like showing a natural phenomenon for a duration of a performance. Then he started his collaboration with Michael Winter, who joined him on these concerns. After many exchanges, Michael got focused on the idea of a dawning, represented by the installation. The accordion, by its two keyboards, is able to play up to three distinctive timbres on each notes. The music is a deep exploration of the accordion timbres through a progression of an algorythmic combination of notes in a 4-notes chord. The shifting timbres structures the form and the emerging melodies, that show all the ambiguity of the sound sources of the accordion.

Meet at dawn!