Piano Inside

Piano Inside A 360 augmented recital – Adrien Mondot and Vanessa Wagner 28.

29 & 30 April 2027 8:30 pm True to its desire to build bridges between aesthetics and invite exchange, La Seine Musicale continues this season to propose unprecedented creations, at the crossroads of genres and artistic disciplines: music, dance, improvisation, poetry...

Since its opening, La Seine Musicale intertwines a large-scale popular program with pointed artistic rigor.

With "Piano Inside", an unprecedented duo between piano and visual creation proposes an immersive experience that renews live spectacle and redefines the relationship between the musician, the instrument and the stage space.

For this first edition of "Piano Inside", pianist Vanessa Wagner and visual artist Adrien Mondot, both advocates of the bridges that bring people together, put Philip Glass in the spotlight.

Repetition, color, timbre: the musical world of the American composer questions our relationship to time and space, and invites openness. If Glass's music is repetitive, it is not sterile. It develops like an organism that breathes, vibrates, lives.

Atmospheric, hypnotic, nostalgic too with its minor harmonies, it moves forward, sometimes swirls. This is also the case with the works of Moondog, Arvo Pärt, Erik Satie and Brian Eno that will also grace the musical program of this augmented recital.

And Vanessa Wagner's nuanced playing, as well as her touch with infinitely varied textures, evoke and imprint visions on our inner retina.

Adrien Mondot's visual creations propose a grammar of light and movement that embraces melodic lines without ever burying them under a spectacular cape, and offer the music a contemplative counterpoint that extends listening without commenting on it.

The image thus responds directly to the music, thanks to real-time sound analysis, in tune with the resp