Songs and dances — Trance Symphonic
A gathering of listening and presence, around music, song, movement and water.
The Cérémonies du Vivant are gatherings offered by the composer Yves Ruhlmann around Trance Symphonic music, a tonal, repetitive and purely orchestral musical form, oriented towards the immersion and the elevation of the Living.
Each Trance Symphonic work is built around a polyphonic mantra — a simple sung cell, accessible to all, which each person is invited to take up freely, or to let resonate within. One joins the music as one breathes : aloud, softly, or in silence.
The gathering is above all an encounter — between the music and each person, and among the people gathered in a single time of listening.
The composer is present as a guide. He welcomes, introduces, opens and closes the shared time, with the bare voice.
The music is diffused through ShinVav Audio loudspeakers, whose particularity is to generate natural waves in vortex — a form of diffusion that renders the sound while taking part in the harmonisation of the place and the people.
Bodies are free : seated, standing, in movement. Each person sings or stays silent according to what they feel.
At the centre of the ceremony, a moment is devoted to water. Trained under Doctor Masaru Emoto in Tokyo in 2017 as a Hado Instructor, Yves Ruhlmann offers a time of attention to this primal element, witness and receiver of the Living.
The form of this time varies according to the place and the people gathered.
Music is not an end : it is a means to rise, to harmonise oneself, and to harmonise the Living.
Each ceremony follows the same architecture, like a work in several movements. Three Trance Symphonic works follow one another, interspersed with inhabited silences and a central time of attention to water.
The welcome opens in silence, twenty minutes before the stated time. The ceremony itself lasts about 1 hr 45. It closes soberly, in the continuity of its own breath, and extends freely around water and herbal tea for those who wish to stay.
The whole is conceived to offer, to every person who enters the place, the possibility of a full presence — free, living, in its right measure.
The Cérémonies du Vivant are held in places where something already holds — deconsecrated chapels, Protestant temples, crypts, old barns, orangeries. Places that have kept the memory of contemplation, and that offer the music a natural support.
The space is arranged in a loose circle around a centre, where the water keeps watch. The light is low and warm, steady like a presence. Bodies find their place — on cushions, on chairs, standing — according to what each person feels.
The music unfolds all around, through ShinVav Audio loudspeakers that diffuse the sound in natural vibratory waves. It comes from everywhere and from nowhere : it envelops, it passes through, it comes into rhyme with the water placed at the centre.
The Cérémonies du Vivant are gatherings of shared listening. They invent themselves midway between living music, collective presence and attention to the world — a form of their own, which invents its frame each time it is held.
Each person comes as they are, and takes what they find there.
The upcoming editions are found in Concerts.