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With this oratorio for three women's voices, three brass instruments, two radio voices and electronics, Alessandro Bosetti and David Christoffel reinvent a prosody in which text, sound, song and music resonate together.
Alessandro Bosetti and David Christoffel share a practice that balances musical composition, radio creation and poetry. But Consensus Partium is less a dialogue than a friction between words and music, an oratorio shaped by the scansion of different pieces for three female voices, three brass instruments, two radio voices and electronics.
On vocals, Valérie Philippin's Trio DéClic, one of the few to venture into the realms of sound poetry. Elements may take the form of solos, duets, polyphonies or electroacoustic hymns, playing with the effects of extreme proximity and great distance specific to broadcasting and the space of Les Brigittines.
Guided by the search for the right proportions, Consensus Partium borrows its title from the principle laid down by Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti. According to him beauty is born of the perfect balance between the whole and its parts. Although it has already inspired architects, musicians and painters, this model does not apply to the composition of the pieces that David Christoffel and Alessandro Bosetti write separately, playing on the fluidity of their sequence.