Sequenza live / Culturebox présente ; un film produit par Sourdoreille Production ; réalisé par Nathan Benisty ; Chloé & Vassilena Serafimova.

Paris, France : Qwest TV, 2019.

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There are musical experiments that leave you unmoved; this is not the case when listening to Sequenza, the performance of the female duo formed by the leading figure of the electro scene Chloé Thévenin and the Bulgarian marimba virtuoso Vassilena Serafimova (here, most often she plays like Gary Burton with four mallets. She also occasionally uses a caxixi, cymbals, sometimes rubbed by a musical saw. When she no longer uses her mallets but bamboo sticks, the sound emitted is closer to the African balafon). The performance is captured in an empty terminal at Orly airport; the sound fills the space without giving the icy feeling of a science fiction scene. This unexpected meeting of two aesthetics marks the fusion of electronic sequencers and marimba in a dazzling rhythmic pulsation. The two partners, although coming from two different worlds, scholarly and contemporary music for the Bulgarian and the electro scene for the French, have succeeded in forging a real complicity to the point of co-signing each theme presented, delivering an alliance of bewitching sounds and a constant warm musicality, far from the screeching of some contemporary music. Each artist's solo part is continuously supported by her partner, so that the listener always has the feeling of listening to a living dialogue of the duettists. It's intellectually stimulating, very pleasant to listen to, and creates a mad desire to discover them "live." Philippe Lesage.

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Chloé Thévenin (electronics) ; Vassilena Serafimova (marimba and other percussion).