Double bass play­er Florentin Ginot is a com­poser asso­ci­ated with the Caen ccn; he has con­ceived Not Here – exten­ded as a staged con­cert where music, space, light and dance inter­act, in col­lab­or­a­tion with cho­reo­graph­ers Kater­ina Andreou and Emmanuelle Huynh.

Cre­ated by Florentin Ginot in May 2018 at the Cologne Phil­har­mon­ic, Not Here engages the musi­cian in a phys­ic­al dia­logue with the double bass, a massive, ver­sat­ile instru­ment whose raw­est, harshest aspects, vibra­tions and imper­fec­tions he explores. To do so, he has called on com­posers who have shaped his approach to the instru­ment, such as Rebecca Saun­ders (b. 1967) and Georges Aperghis (b. 1945): each – in their own way – takes hold of the double bass, its res­ist­ance and its muted zones, embra­cing or attempt­ing to escape its earthy grav­ity. Their com­pos­i­tions res­on­ate here with the lumin­ous mod­ern­ity of Baroque mas­ters Johann Sebasti­an Bach and Hein­rich Biber, under­scored by the use of ana­log syn­thes­izers. At the heart of this ter­rit­ory of encoun­ters, cho­reo­graph­ers and dan­cers Kater­ina Andreou and Emmanuelle Huynh will each anim­ate two com­pos­i­tions (one con­tem­por­ary and one Baroque), pro­pos­ing a danced and per­formed snap­shot in the sceno­graph­ic space of Not Here, with its play of shad­ows and float­ing lumin­ous presences.