Intoxygene
Zaboitzeff & Crew
"Missa Furiosa"
"Missa furiosa as a live show was presented during Linz-Brucknerfest at Linz-Posthof (austria) on september 2002 under the direction of Stéphane Vérité, Eric louteau carrère, Gérald gribé".
Thierry Zaboitzeff: Born in 1953. Composer co-founder of the group Art Zoyd which he left in 1996 in order to concentrate more intensively on his own sound development projects, and also confronting other performance art forms: dance, theatre, events. A sculptor of sound space, perfectionist and highly imaginative.
The High Mass?
It could start like a low mass, not a murmer but something
big scaled down. On stage, all the apparatus is condensed
to a single point. The point of departure, so that the
mass can but only grow, rise and swell in a constant
crescendo, such that the maximum intensity is never
attained. The voices, operatic and powerful, Thierry
Zaboitzeff desires flesh for this mass. Real opera singers
to reply to the electronic sounds. He wants to write
the kyrie, gloria and other prayers. Latin, the amens,
the pulpit needs a preacher. But this preacher bewitches
us, it's his voice, his rhythm, the thunderous energy
he uses. It is the emotion and "childhood memories"
of Thierry Zaboitzeff that resurge in the clouds of
incense.
These are ritual dancers, we know of them, those of
rave parties who allow themselves to be carried towards
a state of ecstasy, but here without ecstasy. The structure
is there, immutable ritual consecration, where all know
how it begins and ends. It is always the same story
- stand up, sit down, stand up sit down... We give all
with enormous pleasure, we sing with full voice and
everyone senses the electrifying effect. This is paradise,
sanctus and benedictus, it's so good to let yourself
go, it's divine!!
The church's humid enclosure, the clammy coolness, the
people who populate it and the empty echo of a detached
voice.
The preacher, who at first slowly speaks, of you to
me, then strings the words together, becoming charged
and with a deep voice fills the sombre space, a powerful
exhalation transforms into a roar. This energy mutates
into a chant and is then taken up by the chorus of devotees.
Death is the only pause for this assembly.
We will put the soprano-solo for the agnus dei, as Mozart
did. He was right, Wolfgang - goose pimples for the
agnus dei. It is the point of suspension to exit the
vertiginious spell. Not a grandiloquant apothesis, no,
more like a great moment when everyone gets up and exhales
in unison.
Stephane Verite.
Web: www.zaboitzeff.org
Email: zaboitzeff@gmx.net
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