TRAFFIC QUINTET

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Divine Féminin

Creation September, 26 2009
at Festival Musica

Festival international des musiques d'aujourd'hui de Strasbourg

The traffic quintet venture goes on, the challenge being to mix in a creative way film music arrangements and images. Dominique Lemonnier first achievement has been a performance devoted to the french "Nouvelle Vague". From now on, Lemonnier shall unveil a new musical show challenging paradoxical and fascinating actresses who became "myths" (like Marilyn Monroe, Ingrid Bergman, or Maria Callas) with other living ones on their way to become sort of "ideals" too. Aren't all these characters in a common and may be unconscious search of the everlasting myth of Medea?

Maria Callas remains for ever Pier Paolo Pasolini's Medea. The french contemporary composer Pascal Dusapin wrote about that an opera inspired by Heiner Müller and called "Medea Material". Here, Dusapin offers the traffic quintet the privilege of playing a whole instrumental suite taken from the opera.
Following, we will meet a serie of wandering women out of classical movies such as "Chinatown", "The Misfits", "Notorious" or "Vertigo"...

Today, musical creativity and movies OST are going both ways and together... The rewarded french composer Alexandre Desplat, in his impressionist way, keeps going the Hollywood tradition to welcome french composers; he has created various scores for films as "The Queen" and "Birth"... More he has also respectfully arranges american composer's works (Bernard Hermann, Jerry Goldsmith and Philip Glass...).

Along these pieces, the video artist Ange Leccia works again on the gender question and here gives a salute to Jacques Monory intricating their respective obsessionnal visions of the woman.

At the crosswords of genders and fields, the traffic quintet, once again promotes the creativity of Film music putting it at stakes with contemporary disciplines and talents.