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Subaquatic accoustics from glass, water and metal

A beautiful, strange and healing documentary made during the performances of "Styx", music by the French electronic music composer Michel Redolfi, inventor of the subaquatic concerts. The concerts took place in Lille swimming pool (France, summer 2004). Glass instruments are played by French multi-instrumentalist virtuoso Thomas Bloch (glassharmonica, cristal Baschet, ondes Martenot) and electronic devices and sounds transformation by Michel Redolfi. The audience listened to different music inside and outside the water. The very beginning uses mainly the cristal Baschet and some glassharmonica sounds. After a mix with electronic sounds, comes the glassharmonica with solo parts together with the cristal Baschet and electronic sounds. Michel Redolfi informations : http://www.redolfi-music.com/ Thomas Bloch informations: http://www.thomasbloch.net Invented by Benjamin Franklin in 1761. Music by Wolfgang A. Mozart. Played by French artist Thomas Bloch, exhibiting the glass harmonica in the Paris Music Museum, Nov. 29, 2007.