Published on June 27, 2024 at 7:52 p.m.
“A lot of emotions and the beginnings of decompression.” This is how Alain Roche begins by summarizing the feeling that drives him as he comes out of an extraordinary musical marathon: from December 22, 2023 to June 20, 2024, he gave a series of 182 morning concerts in Munich , at blue hour, that moment of change between night and day, with constantly changing lights. Baptized «When the Sun Stands Still – Solstice to Solstice», This project was born from the desire not to set a record, but to experience a transformation, the pianist from the Jura, established in Valais, told us last autumn. A musician known for playing vertically, on a piano specially adapted to be suspended in the air. This is how, on the site of the future Konzerthaus in Bavaria, he played for six months suspended from a construction crane, attracting a total of 12,000 early-rising music lovers.
“Physically, I’m doing very well,” he reassures when asked how he feels, before talking about learning to let go. “When you’re at the mercy of the weather every day, you first want to control everything… But after two weeks, I stopped looking at the forecast for the next day, because it didn’t always reflect reality. And I coped very well, especially since I didn’t get sick. Obviously, I would have responded even if I had a fever, but that’s never been the case. The power of the mind helped me hold on, despite mornings at -20°C or with freezing rain.”
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