Apnée

Apnée

I can’t swim, but I love floating in water, an activity to which I can devote myself until quite frozen and pruny. Zeitgeist’s performance of Apnée (poetry by Philippe Costaglioli) pushes the floating listener much further down beneath such a surface idyll. The piece is a mix of percussion, bass clarinet, voice, and electronic processing,… Read more »

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NewMusicBox Staff

I can’t swim, but I love floating in water, an activity to which I can devote myself until quite frozen and pruny. Zeitgeist’s performance of Apnée (poetry by Philippe Costaglioli) pushes the floating listener much further down beneath such a surface idyll. The piece is a mix of percussion, bass clarinet, voice, and electronic processing, and the effect really does conjure a kind of listening through black water. The balance seems to be left hanging between enjoying the weightless recreation and wondering what else might be lurking out there in the darkness of a deep ocean.

—MS