Sacha Gattino, La Combinatoire à Combines
Behind this enigmatic name hides the project of Sacha Gattino, percussionist, sound designer and instrument collector.
Influenced as much by electronic music and concrete music as by ethnomusicological approaches or contemporary orchestration, Sacha Gattino proposes with the Combinatoire à Combines, a cabinet of sound and visual curiosities giving to see and to hear the large collection of instruments-sound objects that he has gathered throughout his projects.
From this very eclectic collection – nearly 200 instruments – that he has patiently sampled, Sacha Gattino programs a bank consisting of more than 400 cells (≈15,000 sounds over several octaves) transposed and reincarnated on a keyboard interface. It is a large “orchestra” but physically reduced.
Using the keyboard-controller and an electro-acoustic device surrounded by 3 instrumental modules, Sacha Gattino revitalizes this sound material on stage by deploying compositions that are permanently confronted with the randomness of a dedicated programming. It is a real time, evolving and multidimensional ensemble started in 2021.
To accompany the scenic transposition of this musical performance, he calls upon Elie Blanchard (alias Yro), to imagine a scenographic and video device giving shape to this sound journey and allowing to materialize the diversity and the richness of this instrumentarium.