Repetition / Erosion

Cantigas de Santa Maria is one of the largest song collections from the Middle Ages, with a total of 427 songs. Dedicated to the Virgin Mary, the collection alternates poems narrating stories of miracles and praising hymns. The overall work, written in vernacular language (Galaico-Portugues) is oscillating between courtly love tellings and liturgy. Besides its literary and musical legacy, this work can also be read as a chronicle of both cultural and mystical life in Europe during the 13th century and reveals the blurred line between the sacred and folklore.

The project plays with different scales of time: geological, historical, musical and human. In constant evolution, the performance consist of a succession and/or superposition of repetitive tasks addressing the different aspects of the songbook : musical, poetic, iconographic, historic…

• Victor Guaita Igual, viola, completed his studies under Paul de Clerck at the Royal Conservatory in Brussels (2014). He founded and devoted himself to Zerkalo Quartet, working with composers such as Hosokawa, Posadas and Sciarrino, and obtained a second master degree in string quartet at the MusikHochschule of Hannover in 2019. Victor has collaborated with contemporary music ensembles such as Ensemble Modern, Ictus and Divertimento and is currently exploring the ritual of solo recital, researching multidisciplinary interactions, and questioning the format of performative spaces. Recently he created Ï Î, a duo together with aulos player Lukas de Clerck.

• Clara Lévy is a French violinist and improviser, whose career is mainly focused on what is commonly called "new music". For the past few years, she has been developing solo projects, questioning in turn the conditions of listening and the dramaturgy of the concert, or the sometimes blurred edges between interpretation and composition. She regularly collaborates with European ensembles and composers. Passionate about contemporary dance and performance, she also regularly performs on stage in Belgium.