After 4 sold-out concert events within the Philharmonie de Paris and L’Auditorium of Lyon, Rone brings his acclaimed album L(oo)ping to London’s Barbican Centre. The album noticed the producer collaborate with the National Orchestra of Lyon to breathe new life into a few of his most famed items. In London, Rone might be joined on stage by Britain’s acclaimed London Contemporary Orchestra and conductor Robert Ames. L(oo)ping premiers on the Barbican on the tenth of March 2024.
Throughout his lengthy musical profession, Rone has dipped his toes in all corners of the humanities, collaborating with heaps of France’s most distinguished up to date minds from the author Alain Damasio, the Marseilles Ballet group, (LA)HORDE and movie administrators Jacques Audiard and Spike Jonze, to call a number of. This versatility has been central to his music and has distinguished Rone as one of the vital thrilling acts in digital music, bestowing him excessive honours reminiscent of a Cesar and Cannes Film Festival award for finest movie rating. With his new album L(oo)ping, Rone pushes his dazzling acrobatics additional with music that twirls and twists alongside the orchestra.
It was whereas working with Romain Allender (The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Shape of Water) that Rone started to bridge his digital world with that of the orchestra. The arranger chosen tracks from Rone’s repertoire that might lend themselves to symphonic reinterpretations and introduced these to the stage in France. Amongst the chosen songs is Tikkoun, the theme of the sequence D’argent et de sang for which Rone launched the soundtrack this yr. The electro-classical items obtained rapturous responses from audiences and critics and would mark the beginning of L(oo)ping with the album’s stay recording adopted in 2023.
In March, conductor Robert Ames will lead the London Contemporary Orchestra to deliver L(oo)ping to life in London’s Barbican Centre. “I’ve been a fan of Rone since first listening to his album Spanish Breakfast. It’s been nice to listen to him transfer deeper and deeper into orchestral music. L(oo)ping is a real hybrid of digital and acoustic sound worlds which is able to actually utilise the complete vary of the London Contemporary Orchestras expertise. We are in for a deal with,” states the conductor and LCO co-founder. The London Contemporary Orchestra is considered one of Britain’s brightest beacons for brand new music, having labored with well-known artists reminiscent of Radiohead, Frank Ocean, Steve Reich, Mica Levi and Vivienne Westwood and with a various subsequent technology of gamers. “I’m extraordinarily proud and completely happy to collaborate with the LCO and conductor Robert Ames for whom I’ve the deepest respect. I’m additionally thrilled to have the ability to play these items organized by Romain on the prestigious Barbican Hall for the primary time. We all wish to make this distinctive expertise an distinctive second,” says Rone.
Alongside the album launch, L(oo)ping was additionally delivered to life as a feature-length movie which premiered in cinemas in June 2023. The movie’s director, Louise Narboni, captured Rone’s breathtaking stay efficiency with the National Orchestra of Lyon and juxtaposed it with an impressionistic world dreamed up by 5 choreographers and delivered to life by 9 of (LA)HORDE’s dancers. With L(oo)ping, Rone takes us on a really particular journey of a singular film-object combining electronics, dance, symphonic music and lots of different surprises.
More info and tickets through: https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2024/event/rone-looping
