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Macadam
piano
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Macadam piano, it’s first of all an emotion "
" a big smile for the heart, what an uplifting feeling"
" Macadam piano, just like the name indicates"
"A pianist in a grand outfit and his grand rolling piano"
" a genius invention! "
Macadam Piano is, above all, poetry. Poetry on wheels. It is a visual
and musical performance, moving from streets to market squares,
alleyways, parks, cities, villages, festivals, riversides and fields...
Macadam
Piano is a real pianist on wheels, light, flexible, and magical.
What
is it?
At last, the grand piano can wander the streets. The motorised*
pianist plays, glides, waltzes and turns, finding its way past smiles
and encounters, for the delight of children and grown ups. In his
fingers are Mozart, Django, Trénet, Schubert, Kurt Weil…
Macadam Piano was born around 1900, in an unknown corner of a Magritte
painting, and life was breathed into it by Alessandro Baricco and
his monologue ‘Novecento, pianiste’, by the artist Michel
Pastore in his Egyptien oasis, by Giuseppe Tornatore and his film
‘the pianist on the ocean ‘. The result is an instrument
which isn’t fixed to the floor anymore, which can glide and
drift: autonomous, fluid, open, space, movement, freedom …
like a Magritte painting…
* The motor is environmentally friendly and silent
Who
is it?
The Macadam Pianist is Jean-Louis Cortès, musician on the
stage and in the studio, composer for the theatre and actor on the
sideline, trained by the Conservatoires of Mulhouse and Angers,
France. He has been composing music for prestigious theatres and
directors for the last 20 years, including La Comédie Française
in Paris.
Jean-Louis Cortès is also and above all a musician, performing
on tours in France, Europe and worldwide with internationally acclaimed
performers. He has also worked as a composer, arranger and producer
on a wide and varied discography. For details in French, click
here.
Words
from audiences:
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" it’s Charlie Poppins! " |
“entirely
magical" |
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like wandering poetry " |
“if you follow this piano around for a while, you’ll
never see this town in the same way”
“I want one”
“You got to hear this, there is piano passing in front of
me” (audience members on their mobile phones)
Click
here to read more audience feedback and press cuttings in French
Hear
the macadam MP3 (needs flash)
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