SUPERBIEN | INSULA ORCHESTRA - ORPHEO'S MIND
Insula Orchestra joins forces with SUPERBIEN to create an abstract and dreamlike video work entitled 'Orpheo’s Mind,' based on an extract from 'Orfeo ed Euridice' by Gluck, the aria 'Che Puro Ciel.'
This aria, one of the most beautiful pages of Orfeo ed Euridice, is performed by the famous countertenor Franco Fagioli and Insula Orchestra under the direction of Laurence Equilbey. This resulting work of Insula Orchestra and SUPERBIEN gives this piece a double dimension: audio and visual. The viewer is transported by this hypnotic poetry celebrating beauty and expressing space, the flight of time and the tumult of emotions experienced by Orpheus during his crossing of hell. The cloud suspended in the center of this audiovisual poem embodies spiritual illumination and the ascension of the spirit. The video projected on this cloud as well as the light diffused within it are worked there as materials. The light only lives through the prism of the cloud, the structure of which is made up of two complementary materials: the transparent and angular plexiglass contrasting with the vaporous and more opaque tulle.
Added to this is an ambient video projection reinforcing the viewer's immersion in the mind of Orpheus. The alliance of the pure aesthetics of the sculpture and the beauty of Gluck's aria affirms the modernity of the whole while supporting the poetry of the musical work.
Artist: Insula Orchestra
Concept, Artistic Direction & Implementation: SUPERBIEN
Co-Director: Edouard Granero
Grading: Antoine Ravache at Rouchon Paris
Studio & Video Capture: Rouchon Paris
Music: Che Puro Ciel, by Franco Fagioli & Insula Orchestra under the direction of Laurence Equilbey