Press-release_Les-Commandos-Percu

B.P.M. Bombs per Minute
Is destruction a creation?
As an answer to the violence of the world, ‘Bombs per Minute’ attempts to drown the audience in noise and rage with the intention
of reaching peace and silence in the end. A delightful show, a great moment of crushing pyrotechnics.
A clock ticks. Bells toll. Fireworks erupt into the night sky in a continuous, hypnotic flow. The tempo quickens and a torrent of light and
sound is unleashed - a furious and beautiful explosion of energy that sets your pulse racing. As well as being a jaw-dropping display of
pyrotechnic skill, this beautiful choreographed show questions the relationship between violence and creation, and asks us where can
we look to find peace in an increasingly angry world.
BPM in Perth Australie
Reportage in Strasbourg
Technical rider (pdf)
Night-time - outdoor
Duration : 35 min
Duration : several thousand people
« The audience electrified by so much energy spread
out asks for more, a truly heroic performance.»
THE GUARDIAN
(c) MIAIvana Batev
• An apocalyptic opening scene :
The first part of the show starts with a visual and sonorous countdown:
the fireworks clock. The audience feels as if the show has always been
there. With a ticking rhythm, the pyrotechnic effects rise into the sky in
a continuous and hypnotic flow. Hypnotic bells build the pressure. The
tempo goes up minute by minute and leads to an apocalyptic opening
scene.
• The music pulsates a communicative heat :
The second part of the show consists of a series of short but effective
scenes in which the four percussionists turn fire into rhythm and vice
versa. They answer to the crackers (the soloist fire), they make bursting
bangs with the rhythm of sticks, a wha wha pedal of fire plays with
crackling sparks, cymbals explode in the musicians/vulcanologists’ faces.
Violence is only an appearance. The music beats an infectious heat.
The final part confirms that all the fury is a cathartic moment full of
exultation. All this is just a game, the cry of children making fun of an
angry game. After the breaking of sounds and blinding lights, a strange
calm befalls.
• • • REFERENCES : Perth International Arts Festival (AUS)
• Festival Chalon dans la Rue in Chalon sur Saône (FR) • Fest’Arts in
Libourne (FR) • Stockton International Riverside Festival (UK) • Exposition
Internationale Zaragoza (ES) • Ansan Street Arts Festival à Ansansi (KS) •
Festival Internacional de las Artes de Salamanca (ES) • Festival Z’ArtsUp in
Béthune (FR) • Festival des Arts dans la Rue in Strasbourg (FR) • Les Contre-
Plongées de l’Eté in Clermont Ferrand (FR) • Festival de rue de Ramonville
(FR) • Sorties de Bain in Granville (FR) • • •
(c) M. Le Fournier