COLLEEN LIVE AT MUSEO DELL'OPERA DEL DUOMO, FIRENZE 4 April 2024: Les parenthèses enchantées - Mvt I

Another live excerpt from the full live show you can see on RUclips from my concert at Sala del Paradiso, Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Firenze, Italy, given last month, for @museofirenze and @musicusconcentus .
• Colleen: “Le jour et l...
Headphones or amp recommended.
"Les parenthèses enchantées - Movement I" was one of the first songs I finished for Le jour et la nuit du réel @thrilljockey , at the stage right before fully diving into the depths of synthesis. It bears its Satie influence on its sleeve, but is also a close cousin of the songs on my second album, 2005's The Golden Morning Breaks. Whenever I play it live, I immediately feel such a shift in energy, in the sense that it totally calms me down and could even put me to sleep - in the best possible way - if I wasn't actually the one playing it.
The 2 hiccups that happen at 3'12'' are typical of moments where I get lost in the music and the performance to the point of losing awareness of the moves my hands are doing for me: it's a feeling both beautiful and dizzying and is typically for me a moment when these small incidents might happen. I guess that if I was classically or formally trained, I might find a way of better controlling this, but as I'm not, it is what it is and I have finally learnt to accept these moments as part of the performance.
The song uses what I call my "Rhodes sound" on the @moogsynthesizers Grandmother: the Lowpass Filter is used as a Sinewave oscillator (for this, Resonance needs to be set at full and the Kbd Track set to 1:1), pitch being determined Cutoff frequency. Envelope Release set at 12 pm and a little bit of Spring Reverb. Sent by Aux into the Space Echo (the real thing in the studio, my @soundgasltd Roland RE-201 Space Echo, or the pedal version live, the BOSS RE-20). Both gently panned Left and Right.

[@maxhill1827]

Thank you, Cecile. Your music continues to have a very positive influence on my life.

[@Pandangus]

Beautiful

[@synthemodulaire]

Très beau ! Je suis toujours fasciné par l'apparente simplicité de ces pièces.

[@redtaperecorder1]

Sweet sadness. You made me cry again... :)

[@Blueblackngold]

This is beautiful

[@Panavision70]

La classe ❤

[@habettdotnet]

Magnifique

[@le__rien]

Beau