Metamorphoses of water

The clavicloche is a chromatic keyboard made up of around forty round cowbells, made of well-tempered steel, collected over several decades by percussionist Joël Grare around Chamonix. Played with bare hands, a bow, knitting needles, or flamboyant beans, the instrument shakes up the codes of pastoral music and takes us far beyond the earth, into a polymorphous reverie on the water.

Joël Grare

A child of rock, a drummer, he developed a passion for the cultures along the Silk Road from an early age. A sesame that opened the doors to the wonderful kingdom of percussion. Over the years and through his travels, he built up an instrumentarium made of wood (Indonesian tong-tong), skins (Japanese drum, daf), metals (gongs, bells, cymbals), plants (brooms, reed sanza), minerals (lithophone). A whole world of sound, from rustling to cataclysms, which led him to create the ''Clavicloche'', a chromatic keyboard of round, steel cowbells from Chamonix, with a 4-octave register. He recorded the album Des pas sous la neige (2018) on this instrument.