LE SCARABÉE D’OR

Composer

Mireille Capelle

Musical team

Interpretations by
HERMESensemble with
Mireille Capelle
Karin de Fleyt
Geert Callaert
Gaetan La Mela
Peter Merckx
Marc Tooten

Live performance at premiere by Karin de Fleyt & Mireille Capelle

Sound editing and mix

Maarten Buyl

Concept Installation

Aïda Gabriëls

Milan Henderickx

Astrid Vansteenkiste

Performance light

Astrid Vansteenkiste

Seating object

Noir Métal lent by Koen Kessels 

Audio recording

Bart Celis

Scarabée d’Or treats sound as a lens. It does not capture the art around us; it filters them. Seated, listening, you enter a different tempo: edges lengthen, surfaces hold, detail accrues. Nothing is added to the works, yet their timing changes. Scarabée d’Or proposes a minimal protocol: sit, listen, look. Scarabée d’Or runs in a loop. Duration becomes medium rather than measure. No crescendo, no conclusion. Just perception, thickened by time.

The doors:

1. Do… Anchoring .Instinct. Red. Smell. Red… I LIVE

(Percussion – Horse gallop)

2. Re… Action. To do. Taste. Orange………………I MOVE

(Piano-Footsteps)

3. MI.. Emotion. Sensitivity. (Me) Yellow…………I FEEL

(voice -words)

4. Fa… Heart. Sharing. Touch. Green……………… I LOVE

(Clarinet-fire)

5. Sol…Hearing. Speak. Blue………………………… I WANT

(Flute-Wind)

6. La….Intuition. Vision. Indigo……………………. I SEE

(Cello- Water)

7. SI….Crown. Sky. Diamond………………………. I AM

(Viola-Birds)

“Sound plays a transformative role and can be a powerful bridge

between humans nature and art.”

 

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