Ludi Chassol

• 1 Ouverture 00:27
• 2 Les règles 04:31
• 3 Sirine 00:23
• 4 Concerto pour batterie et cour de récréation 08:44
• 5 Savana, Céline, Aya, Pt. 1 00:59
• 6 Savana, Céline, Aya, Pt. 2 03:03
• 7 Your Hands 01:05
• 8 Koh & Sam 01:12
• 9 Mikado Walking 02:07
• 10 Poltergeist 01:43
• 11 Esatabemakuru 01:10
• 12 Tetris Synths 00:20
• 13 Tetris Crystal 01:02
• 14 I Think the Game, Pt. 1 00:51
• 15 I Think the Game, Pt. 2 01:20
• 16 I Think the Game, Pt. 3 03:14
• 17 I Think the Game, Pt. 4 01:21
• 18 Dribbles & Beats 02:06
• 19 Camarades 03:53
• 20 Rollercoaster, Pt. 1 01:34
• 21 Rollercoaster, Pt. 2 02:40
• 22 On Top 00:35
• 23 I Love Vertigo 02:26
• 24 Game Rule 01:41
• 25 Le jeu de la phrase 04:25
• 26 Wolf Music 01:17
• 27 Les anneaux de Saturne 02:56
• 28 Wolf Music (Finale) 00:27
• 29 Générique (Benjamin) 03:35
• 30 Slowcoaster 01:46
• Total Runtime 01:02:53

Info zu Ludi

Ludi is a musical film inspired by the novel Das Glasperlenspiel, The Glass Bead Game, by the German author Hermann Hesse. Third studio album after Indiamore (2013) and Big Sun (2015), Chassol explores the theme of the game according to the four categories it includes: competition, chance, simulacrum and vertigo. The themes become a visual and musical interpretation that combines animation, documentary techniques and special effects. Pushing the limits of virtuosity, Chassol delivers a third poetic and ambitious album.

Christophe Chassol is reshuffling the deck. After making his name worldwide with three magnificent ultrascore compositions (Nola Cherie in 2011, Indiamore in 2013 and Big Sun in 2015), working with Solange and Frank Ocean, and playing the most prestigious halls, he’s taking his quest to arrange reality even further with Ludi, his new project that includes an album, film and show. It’s play - an all-important word in music - that underscores this impressive, masterful construction freely inspired by Hermann Hesse’s The Glass Bead Game. Everything is part of the melody: a playground or basketball players in the suburbs, an arcade in Tokyo, a roller coaster, singer Crystal Kay and rapper Kohh. Solo musicians were filmed in rehearsal, like flautist Jocelyn Mienniel and the composer’s partner, drummer Mathieu Edward, who managed to reprise on stage Chassol drew from the great German author’s utopic book, where music, mathematics, aesthetics and spirituality intermingle, to create a passionate work produced by Bertrand Burgalat’s label Tricatel that once again justifies his special place in the musical landscape.

Christophe Chassol

Christophe Chassol
is a composer with an atypical background and equally unique composition methods. Combining documentary film and musical composition, he captures his encounters with a camera, edits the footage into visual motifs onto which he adds his own chord sequences. He calls this method “ultrascoring”.

“We go out and film places and people... They talk to us. Every sound in the camera becomes musical raw material. I make loops of the images, stretch them, lengthen them... Then I sew the movie together with the chords”.

Born in 1976, Christophe Chassol entered music academy at age 4 and studied there for 16 years. He secured a grant from Boston's Berklee College of Music, where he graduated in 2002. For the next 15 years, he composed for cinema, television and advertising.

In subsequent years he performed regularly with French pop artists such as the band Phoenix and Sébastien Tellier. More recently, Chassol has worked with American singers Frank Ocean and Solange, contributing to their respective albums.

Chassol is also active in contemporary art, collaborating with artists Sophie Calle, Laurie Anderson and more recently Xavier Veilhan at the Venice Biennale in July 2017. His work Cuba in Cohen, created for the occasion, is currently exhibited at Montréal's Musée d'Art Contemporain.

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