Anabasis (2016) by François Buffet
Anabasis means in ancient greek "spirit ascent". Its consists in open sanctuary which is everywhere and nowhere at once, which don't have geographic place, but a place of the spirit, an inner territory, without edge, without border, infinite. This vibrating sanctuary is an unity, a totality, one sound…
We can hear a sort of choir, synthetic, imaginary, imagined, unreal - the voices of the dead? of those aren't born? of the angels? of humanity? of the univers? an other dimension? parallel world? A cosmic sanctuary in vibration, violent, extatic, soft…
Anabasis won the Prix Russolo 2019, jury and public prize, after concert series in many cities of the world, as well as a honorable mention in the first International Electroacoustic Composition Iannis Xenakis in 2017.
