Répons

Concert of Répons by Pierre Boulez, performed by Ensemble intercontemporain, conducted by Matthias Pintscher at Holland Festival 2015.
Pierre Boulez' groundbreaking work Répons (1981-1984) is the first composition in which the grand maitre of the musical experiment combined the performers' traditional instrumentation with real-time manipulated sound.
Because of the spiralling character of the score and the spatial grouping of ensemble, soloists, loudspeakers ánd audience, Amsterdam's Gashouder is the ideal venue in which to fully appreciate the music's exciting interplay between past and present, question and answer. Boulez' faithful collaborators of the Ensemble intercontemporain and the sound wizards of IRCAM, the institute which was founded by Boulez, will play the piece twice, so that the audience can change seats in the break and re-experience the music from a different perspective the second time. It's a unique opportunity to get acquainted with every aspect of this iconic work.