Episode 3/9 from Glass House, a video sonic work by composer Lucas Fagin and visual artist Boris Labbé (2023) - 45 minutes. 

Glass House is a video-sonic work, a disruptive immersive experience. It's the glass Tower of Babel, a kaleidoscope with hypnotic beauty. It's a sensation, mixed with attraction and repulsion, borrowed from science fiction novels.

Ensemble Cairn 
Clarinet, Ayumi Mori
Trumpet, André Feydy
Electric guitar, Christelle Séry
Percussion, Sylvain Lemêtre
Keyboard and Synth, Caroline Cren
Violin, Lucie Leker
Double Bass, Nicolas Crosse
Conductor, Guillaume Bourgogne
Ensemble Cairn Artistic director, Jérôme Combier

Live recording
Clément Marie, sound recording
Lucas Fagin, editing and mixing
Cover image, Boris Labbé
Sound mock-ups for Boris Labbé work in progress, Fernando Fucci

Co-scenography, Émilie Fouilloux

Lucas-Fagin-Glass-House-Episode-3/9

Goodbye planet earth (2020)
for 25 musicians
Commissioned by Ensemble InterContemporain
Premiered by Ensemble InterContemporain at Philharmonie de Paris, Grand Salle Pierre Boulez, March 2021.
Matthias Pintscher, conductor

Goodbye planet earth

dark - ambients

for seven instrumentsepisode 
The collaboration between Ensemble Cairn and Lucas Fagin began in 2015 when, as part of Radio France’s Alla Breve commissions, he composed Psychedelic. Written for seven musicians, Lucas Fagin’s music bridges the gap between so-called “contemporary” and “current” music, drawing inspiration from three highly referenced sources: Ligeti (Kammerkonzert), Pink Floyd (On the Run, from the album Dark Side of the Moon), and a hypnotic painting by Victor Vasarely. The shared desire to delve deeper into this work led Lucas Fagin to propose creating an extended form over time and space, with the collaboration of audiovisual artist Boris Labbé: Glass House.
The meeting of these two artists, who share a taste for distortions, optical illusions, and geometric eccentricities, is intended to be a radical undertaking. Drawing inspiration from the unsettling world of science fiction, their work seeks to alter perception and disorient the senses through a composition that is both visual and sonic, simultaneously hypnotic and psychedelic. Their ambition is to create a new universe, a “Psi-fi” that radiates in multi-dimensions.

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Ensemble Cairn
Guillaume Bourgogne, direction

Psychedelic

Archetype

Lanterna Magica, Piece for 6 musicians: 2violins, 1viola, 1cello, 1 doublebass, 1 percussion; commissionned by Ensemble InterContemporain, Paris.

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