Miroirs des miroirs

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the French impressionist Maurice Ravel composed Miroirsfive character pieces for piano, each dedicated to a member of the controversial artists’ collective Les ApachesThese are striking images, reflected through Ravel’s singular artistic voice.
In Mirrors of Mirrors, Julien Libeer brings Ravel’s five portraits to life, while SPECTRA lets them resonate in dialogue with an equal number of gems from the recent past.
Kaija Saariaho's Sept Papillons dispel the dark atmosphere of the night moths in Noctuelles. The lost birds in a sombre forest, weighed down by summer heat in Oiseaux tristes continue their song in The Birds in Warped Time II of Somei Satoh. Likewise, une barque sur l' océan drifts, nearly a century later, into the uncanny waters of Murail’s La barque mystiqueThe driving Spanish rhythms of the jester’s morning song (Alborada del Gracioso) fade at the edge of night in Sciarrino’s Ai limiti della notte , while the midday Parisian bells of La vallée des cloches slowly dissolve into the mystical ritual of Lettre Soufie: Sh(în) of Jean-Luc Fafchamps. Ten sublime and intense sound paintings — mirrors of mirrors of their time.