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An immersive recital – Adrien Mondot and Vanessa Wagner.<div> Since its opening, La Seine Musicale has intertwined a large-scale, popular program with a demanding artistic vision. With "Piano Inside," a unique duo of piano and visual art offers an immersive experience that reinvents live performance and redefines the relationship between musician, instrument, and stage space. For this first edition of "Piano Inside," pianist Vanessa Wagner and visual artist Adrien Mondot, both proponents of bridges that bring people together, pay tribute to Philip Glass. Repetition, color, timbre: the American composer's musical world questions our relationship to time and space, and invites us to break down barriers.</div><div> While Glass's music is repetitive, it is not sterile. It develops like an organism that breathes, vibrates, lives. Atmospheric, hypnotic, and nostalgic too, with its minor harmonies, it moves forward, sometimes swirling. This is also true of the works by Moondog, Arvo Pärt, Erik Satie, and Brian Eno, which will also enrich the musical program of this expanded recital.</div><div><br></div><div> And Vanessa Wagner's nuanced playing, as well as her touch with its infinitely varied textures, evoke and imprint visions on our inner retina.</div><div> Adrien Mondot's visual creations offer a grammar of light and movement that embraces the melodic lines without ever burying them under a spectacular cloak, providing the music with a contemplative counterpoint that prolongs the listening experience without commentary. The image thus responds directly to the music, thanks to real-time sound analysis, in tune with the pianist's breathing, fully inhabiting this music whose repetitions are not mechanical but vital, like the beating of a heart.</div><div> The piano becomes the center of a constantly transforming dreamscape that enhances the Auditorium's architecture. Minimalist music, perhaps, but a maximalist concert experience, certainly!</div><div><br></div><div> True to its commitment to building bridges between aesthetics and encouraging exchange, La Seine Musicale continues to offer original creations this season, at the crossroads of genres and artistic disciplines: music, dance, improvisation, poetry...</div><div><br></div>