Simplexity, la beauté du geste

This film is part of the documentary series “Image d’une oeuvre” produced by Ircam, which aims to document, today, the entire course of the creative process of a composer confronted with the use of technology to extend the artistic and expressive stakes of their musical project

This instalment of the series Image d’une œuvre was co-directed with Boris Van der Avoort in an attempt to convey the idea of SIMPLEXITY, of complex simplicity or, conversely, the beauty of the gesture that fuses music and dance, the auditory and the visual, in formal structures that the performers are invited to inhabit. The theme running through the performance is the one that has nourished the whole of Thierry De Mey’s work: the quest for a possible link between structure and its embodiment, technology and the living, mathematics and nature, the scientific and the poetic. SIMPLEXITY offers a complete experience in which music and gesture reconcile the part with the whole.