Bercy Bus Station will be performed at Beats during Boundaries.
Bercy Bus Station
Music, video and fragments of speech are woven together in this multimedia piece, composing and decomposing unbalanced parallels and juxtapositions. In a voice-over, we hear snippets of personal notes written by a restless screenwriter on a bus journey from Paris to Barcelona. Abrupt, suggestive and unstable tableaus of music enter into dialogue with these speech fragments in metallic timbres that shifts from a wide spectrum of overtones to narrow acoustic beatings and glassy noise. As the visual interlocutor, the video is dominated by shots of traffic, transits and vessels, creating a dreamscape of half-imagined, half-remembered trips that together speak of the strange simultaneity of mobility and immobility characteristic of road journeys.