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[3 phases] gathers together various facets of Michael Snow’s work. Three aspects rarely seen: Snow the improviser at the piano, Snow the conceptual artist and, finally, Snow the blues and jazz pianist, which precedes the other two and without which the image would be incomplete.
For this production, a Disklavier was made available to the artist. The result is a work intersected by conventional pianistic execution as well as by computer-assisted composition and execution.
“No, art can not be reduced to a category or a style. There is ultimately only one process, the one to which an artist dedicates his life. That’s all.” (Jocelyn Robert)
« Si Adorno détestait le jazz, lui opposant la musique contemporaine « plus abstraite et irrécupérable » à ses oreilles. Snow comme Ie note Raymond Gervais résout « le dilemme du populaire contre l'avant-gardiste en fusionnant Ie meilleur des deux univers en une seule et même expression via I'unique piano. » (Philippe Robert, Jazz Magazine no 509, nov. 2000)