Insub. Meta Orchestra
Experimental practices
Audios
Subtle sound matter emerges and interacts with silence.
Brief
The Insub Meta Orchestra (IMO) is a large ensemble brought together around experimental and electroacoustic practices. It was founded in 2010 by Cyril Bondi and d’incise. It consists of about sixty permanent members from which stem the roughly thirty international musicians present at each concert.
Born out of research around improvisation in large groups, over time the IMO has built up a recognizable and unique collective background where individual gestures get lost in the construction of total sonic states, and where subtle sound matter emerges and interacts with silence.
Within the context of this orchestra, notions of improvisation and composition mix together in the constant research of specific developments centered around duration, the role of silence, electroacoustic and extensive listening, imitation, low volumes, non-hierarchical relations, and the circulation of information.
