Laurent Pernice presents his score for Sophocles' 441BCE play "Antigone", as performed by Anima Motrix, directed by Emma Gustafsso and Laurent Hatat. Here Pernice focuses on strings (bass, double bass, zither, and harp), with Violaine Sultan - a teacher at the Marseille Conservatory of Music - also playing an important role on viola.

The acoustic performances are subtly altered by Laurent Pernice's electronic treatments: Sultan's voila, while sometimes very clear and simple, interpreting melodies of a elegant beauty akin to that of classical music, is often turned on its head, slowed down, overdriven, to create textures conducive to the atmosphere of this or that part of the play.

Even without the text of the original play, the music itself takes you on a journey of an absolute tragedy, while revealing the infinite complexity of the human being.

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