{"id":545,"date":"2025-07-11T16:56:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T14:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gillesgrimaitre.com\/?p=545"},"modified":"2025-08-29T10:45:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T08:45:32","slug":"new-work-for-2-pianos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gillesgrimaitre.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/11\/new-work-for-2-pianos\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW WORK FOR 2 PIANOS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"790\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gillesgrimaitre.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/boxing-piano_cg_site-790x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-546\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gillesgrimaitre.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/boxing-piano_cg_site-790x1024.jpg 790w, https:\/\/www.gillesgrimaitre.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/boxing-piano_cg_site-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.gillesgrimaitre.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/boxing-piano_cg_site-768x995.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gillesgrimaitre.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/boxing-piano_cg_site.jpg 859w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 790px) 100vw, 790px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>for Antoine, Fran\u00e7oise, Gilles &amp; Grima\u00eetre<br>for <a href=\"https:\/\/galpon.ch\/spectacle\/cataclysme-piano-4\">Cataclysme Piano #4<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A new composition for a rare festival.<br>Festival Cataclysme is one of the most unique and mind-bending festival I\u2019ve ever experienced. Dreamed up by G\u00e9raldine Schenkel, it reimagines the piano in the most radical and utopian ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Used as this society uses it, the piano is an arrogant instrument that excludes all those who don\u2019t know about music,&#8221;&nbsp;said pianist Fran\u00e7ois-Ren\u00e9 Duch\u00e2ble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, this festival proves quite the opposite<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By subverting its bourgeois symbolism, it offers a wild range of completely bonkers events\u2014installations, performances, concerts, listening lounges\u2014all taking place at Th\u00e9\u00e2tre du Galpon.&nbsp;<br>I have the honour of performing alongside my longtime partner-in-crime Antoine Fran\u00e7oise a two piano program. Together, we\u2019ll play music by Conlon Nancarrow, Julia Wolfe, and Antoine himself.&nbsp;<br>We\u2019ll also premiere my latest piece, composed specifically for this event.<br>A concert plenty of strangeness, noise, grooves, detours, and maybe a few moments of delicate beauty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>=> Sept 4 in <a href=\"https:\/\/galpon.ch\/spectacle\/cataclysme-piano-4\">Th\u00e9\u00e2tre du Galpon<\/a>, Geneva<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>for Antoine, Fran\u00e7oise, Gilles &amp; Grima\u00eetrefor Cataclysme Piano #4 A new composition for a rare festival.Festival Cataclysme is one of the most unique and mind-bending festival I\u2019ve ever experienced. Dreamed up by G\u00e9raldine Schenkel, it reimagines the piano in the most radical and utopian ways. &#8220;Used as this society uses it, the piano is an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":546,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.gillesgrimaitre.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/boxing-piano_cg_site.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gillesgrimaitre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gillesgrimaitre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gillesgrimaitre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gillesgrimaitre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gillesgrimaitre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.gillesgrimaitre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":928,"href":"https:\/\/www.gillesgrimaitre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions\/928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gillesgrimaitre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gillesgrimaitre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gillesgrimaitre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gillesgrimaitre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}