DSC_0148 Séquence 43c Séquence 43d
HDV, 7 minutes 20

with the participation of members of the Municipal Harmony of Ferrière-la-Grande city


Like a procession of rebel musician angels who would like to show their displeasure, the Harmony is moving towards us, but comes from very far away, like thunder rumbling by echoes. The cacophonous, “out of order” character of their music, as if everyone was playing in his own bubble even though they move as one man, comes into contact metaphorical and "romantic" with the lush nature that surrounds them. Thus the heavens and its light that seems to accompany the movement of the band by alternating clearing upt and darkening. These disenchanted troubadours of good and bad omens announcing the moods of the sky as weddings and funerals, making rain or shine on community life.

God knows what news they came to announce this time, for their march gives first the impression of a surreal procession where everyone finds his child's soul, one that blows into the instrument without thinking about the sound that comes out. But the breath of innocence does not preclude collective and intergenerational dimension to anticipate the melody of the Event, that melody one hears whistling quietly at the edge of the great movements of history, without recognizing the notes. While it is still early to predict the destination of these spoilers from the Harmony, they also remind us of an imaginary museum where live the Musicians of Caravaggio who seem to do as they please, the tragic Musicians of James Ensor, who form a zoological band and Raphael’s St. Cecilia (patron saint of musicians) watching the choir of angels enthroned in heaven while at her feet lay dislocated flutes and lutes. 


Text written by Morad Montazami, art historian and critic