Athanasius Kircher defined the stylus phantasticus as "the freest and least forced of composition methods". Although this freedom of writing came directly from the Italians Merulo and Frescobaldi, it reached Johann Sebastian Bach by way of two other composers performed by the Stravaganza Ensemble, the Germans Buxtehude and Reinken. In reply to these fanciful baroque passages, the Cairn Ensemble will perform two recent works. Carmagnole by Gérard Pesson should, in the composer’s own words, be like the late-renaissance Cabinets of curiosities, in which collectors accumulated miscellaneous, precious, although varied objects : such as scientific objects,  mineralogical pieces, formal enigmas, anatomical specimens… A taste of the refinement in diversity which has been taken up by the instrumentarium of Gilbert Nouno, whose piece Reverse brings together woodwind, strings and percussion with the electronic guitar and a few electronic sounds.

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