CD “Pas de Deux a Concert of Stories”
Éditions Paradox
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The music speaks -
Speech becomes music -
The notes give life to the words.
Who takes the first step, the woman or the man? Myth tells us how the creator - by mistkae! - provoked that first step, the step that changed everything.
Linda Edsjö and Abbi Patrix create a dance with words and music, tell stories that are old and stories that are new, stories of fate, of love, of hte bridges between this world and other worlds. Malice, humour and metamorphosis are some of the ingredients in this brew, made to the sound of marimba, percussion - and even pots and pans.
The series “Storytellers on stage” enables the reader to encounter the work of artists whose work i ephemeral. In this way the world of the storyteller can be discovered through the text of their performance and through conversations about that performance. Although storytelling is an ancient art, it is very much of the present moment: the paradox at the heart of Editions Paradox.
Linda Edsjö, percussionist, composer, and improviser, readily blends her music with other performing arts. She has a long list of commissions and premieres of contemporary music for ensembles and solo percussion to her credit. She is a member of several musical ensembles of diverse genres, participates in numerous recordings, and has produced a CD of her compositions with the duo Susa.
With Compagnie du Cercle, she explores a new relationship between text and music in her musical storytelling creations. Born in Stockholm, she studied in Copenhagen and has lived in Paris since 2009.
Artistic Collaboration: Erica Wagner
Erica Wagner was born in New York and now lives in London. She is the literary editor of The Times. To date, she has interviewed Philip Roth, Seamus Heaney, Buzz Aldrin, Doris Lessing, Maurice Sendak, Philip Pullman, Paul Auster, Alan Garner, Peter Ackroyd, Bill Bryson, and Nick Hornby, to name just a few.
Her first book was a collection of three short stories: Gravity (Grant, 1997). Three years later, following the publication of Ted Hughes’s Birthday Letters, she published a biographical study of the same book: Ariel’s Gift: Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and the Story of Birthday Letters (Faber and Faber, W. W. Norton). Her novel Seizure (Faber and Faber, W. W. Norton, 2007) was published in France under the title La Coupure (Éditions Au-delà du raisonnable).
With photographer Barbara Mensh, she is writing a book about the Brooklyn Bridge, and for this project, she often returns to New York to cross the bridge.