Chloé & Vassilena Serafimova

Classical, Electronic, Experimental France, Bulgaria
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Past concerts

Sequenza Live: Chloé & Vassilena Serafimova + Michal Rataj & Oskar Török Praha 3 – Žižkov, Palac Akropolis Sequenza Live: Chloé & Vassilena Serafimova + Michal Rataj & Oskar Török

Videos

Chloé & Vassilena Serafimova  Sequenza Live at Paris Orly Airport  0 5 19:13 0 ×

About Chloé & Vassilena Serafimova

Started as a one-off collaboration in 2017, the musical partnership between the French composer and electronic music producer and Bulgarian composer and instrumentalist is now being renewed, both live and in the studio. An unprecedented and forward-looking meeting of the minds that melds machines with percussion, and the electronic with the acoustic.

Originally, the collaboration was intended to be ephemeral, conjured up for a live performance filmed by the Sourdoreille Collective for their Variations series. For one evening, the “classical” instrumentalist and electronic producer came together on stage for a tribute to Steve Reich's composition Music for 18 Musicians: “Reich is the most obvious link between electronic music and art music,” explains Chloé. “It was a starting point, a pretext, to go elsewhere. The idea was then to move away from it. At that time, I was finishing my album and in particular The Dawn, which was inching towards these marimba sounds.” Following their first encounter, the duo decided to extend their collaboration.

The duo was given the opportunity to develop their collaboration as part of a residency at contemporary artist Xavier Veilhan's Studio Venezia (the French pavilion at the 2017 Venice Biennale), where they were assisted by Nigel Godrich (a producer who has worked with (Radiohead, Beck, U2, and Air). The marimba's combined rhythmic and aerial character, and its alliance with beats and programming recall works such as the Cliff Martinez's soundtrack for Soderbergh's remake of Solaris, Pantha du Prince's productions, or recent electronic albums like Simian Mobile Disco's 2018Murmurations. Their method of composing, working, finding new ways of operating is constantly evolving. The collaboration is no longer a temporary (albeit successful) episode: it becomes a common project. Very motivated by these first steps and the excitement generated by the project, the duo has worked on a 7" record to be released on the occasion of the Record Store Day as part of the Unik Sessions (produced by Adami and Radio France). Following over two years of touring throughout Europe, including stops at foundational festivals (Musiq3, Days Off, Verbier Festival, Festival de Musique de Menton), their work process has become more and more refined.

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