Romain Dubois has decided to overthrow the apparent sobriety of the piano, by concentrating on the audio potential of an instrument from the 1970s – the Yamaha CP-70 electric grand piano. This is a unique instrument which picks up string vibrations note by note using piezoelectric microphones, thereby emphasising the acoustic dimension while also offering a wide range of possibilities for amplification and sound processing (looper, sampler, spatialisation). This is an “augmented” piano, not just a prepared piano, allowing him to play with the codes of electronic, contemporary, romantic and traditional music.

He works in a performance / concert format with sculptor and performer Olivier de Sagazan to explore the bodily relationship between the musician and his instrument. Conjuring up the old image of Man and Beast, they create a very powerful physical and animal relationship, seeking the savagery of a state of trance in this hands-on work with the keyboard, sound and repetitive beats. Through shouts and tranquillity, melody and energy, beats, syncopation and metamorphoses, the self-effacing Romain Dubois transforms into a strange fully possessed character behind his piano, taking us into an accelerating, excessive, furious, hypnotic and vivid trance, for a performance with outstanding energy.