Piano Inside

Piano Inside An Augmented 360 Recital – Adrien Mondot and Vanessa Wagner28.

29 & 30 April 2027 20:30 True to its aim of building bridges between aesthetics and encouraging exchange, La Seine Musicale continues this season to present new original creations at the crossroads of genres and artistic disciplines: music, dance, improvisation, poetry...

Since its opening, La Seine Musicale has combined a large-scale popular programme with a sharp artistic rigour.

With “Piano Inside”, a new duo between piano and visual creation offers an immersive experience that renews live performance 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 devotees of the bridges that bring people together, honour Philip Glass.

Repetition, colour, timbre: the musical world of the American composer questions our relationship with time and space, and invites us to break down barriers. Although Glass's music is repetitive, it is not sterile. It develops like a breathing, vibrating, living organism.

Atmospheric, hypnotic, and also nostalgic with its minor harmonies, it moves forward and sometimes whirls. The same is true of the works of Moondog, Arvo Pärt, Erik Satie and Brian Eno, which will also feature in the musical programme of this augmented recital.

And the nuanced playing of Vanessa Wagner, along with her touch of infinitely varied textures, evokes and imprints visions onto our inner retina.

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