Pendulum Choir by Michel Décosterd, André Décosterd (CH) is an original choral piece for 9 A Cappella voices and 18 hydraulic jacks. The choir stands on tilting platforms, constituting a living, sonorous body. That body expresses itself through various physical states. Its plasticity varies at the mercy of its sonority. It varies between abstract sounds, repetitive sounds, and lyrical or narrative sounds. The bodies of the singers and their voices play with and against gravity. They brush and avoid each other creating subtle vocal polyphonies. Or, supported by electronic sounds, they break their cohesion and burst into lyrical flight or fold up into an obsessional and dark ritual.

Pendulum Choir was awarded with the Golden Nica in the Interactive Art category at the Prix Ars Electronica 2013.

credit: Xavier Voirol

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