Michel Butor
La Rose des voix
A monumental collaboration between Michel Butor and Henri Pousseur - two titans of the European avant-garde meeting at the absolute peak of their creative powers! La Rose Des Voix stands as one of the essential documents of contemporary vocal music, a kaleidoscopic "fête des peuples amoureux" built around a polychrome variation of Ezekiel's prophecies. Pousseur conducts multiple ensembles - the Ensemble Vocal led by Marie-Claude Remy, Les Compagnons Du Champeau under Emmanuel Poire, and his own …
Paysages Planétaires
In 2000, Henri Pousseur was asked by Philippe Samyn, a Brussels-based architect who liked to work in collaboration with other artforms, to lend his support to the plan for the construction of a business complex by one of the most important building enterprises in the country. There were four low buildings arranged like different parts of a medieval castle-village, grouped around a kind of large open central court. Leaning on the suggested image, Pousseur immediately suggested that the fir…