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Pythagoras’ Toolkit – La Boîte à outils de Pythagore 2024

Pythagoras’ Toolkit’ returns to Montreal for a second group of performances, following the successful premiere run in March 2023.

Legend has it that one day Pythagoras was astonished by the sounds that blacksmiths made when they struck their pieces of metal: the sounds were rich, varied, sometimes harmonious, sometimes discordant. When he returned home, the Greek thinker hastened to explore sound and invent new instruments.

In this co-creation by Rachel Warr (Dotted Line Theatre) and Benjamin Oliver, performed by the musicians of Paramirabo, our hero, the modern-day Pythagoras, invites children families to follow him in her surreal, amusing and even danceable experiments.

A Paramirabo production, co presented by Le Vivier, Bach Before Bedtime and Une école montréalaise pour tous.

Pythagoras’ Toolkit – La Boîte à outils de Pythagore 2024

Pythagoras’ Toolkit’ returns to Montreal for a second group of performances, following the successful premiere run in March 2023.

Legend has it that one day Pythagoras was astonished by the sounds that blacksmiths made when they struck their pieces of metal: the sounds were rich, varied, sometimes harmonious, sometimes discordant. When he returned home, the Greek thinker hastened to explore sound and invent new instruments.

In this co-creation by Rachel Warr (Dotted Line Theatre) and Benjamin Oliver, performed by the musicians of Paramirabo, our hero, the modern-day Pythagoras, invites children families to follow him in her surreal, amusing and even danceable experiments.

A Paramirabo production, co presented by Le Vivier, Bach Before Bedtime and Une école montréalaise pour tous.

Pythagoras’ Toolkit – La Boîte à outils de Pythagore 2024

Pythagoras’ Toolkit’ returns to Montreal for a second group of performances, following the successful premiere run in March 2023.

Legend has it that one day Pythagoras was astonished by the sounds that blacksmiths made when they struck their pieces of metal: the sounds were rich, varied, sometimes harmonious, sometimes discordant. When he returned home, the Greek thinker hastened to explore sound and invent new instruments.

In this co-creation by Rachel Warr (Dotted Line Theatre) and Benjamin Oliver, performed by the musicians of Paramirabo, our hero, the modern-day Pythagoras, invites children families to follow him in her surreal, amusing and even danceable experiments.

A Paramirabo production, co presented by Le Vivier, Bach Before Bedtime and Une école montréalaise pour tous.

Pythagoras’ Toolkit – La Boîte à outils de Pythagore 2024

Pythagoras’ Toolkit’ returns to Montreal for a second group of performances, following the successful premiere run in March 2023.

Legend has it that one day Pythagoras was astonished by the sounds that blacksmiths made when they struck their pieces of metal: the sounds were rich, varied, sometimes harmonious, sometimes discordant. When he returned home, the Greek thinker hastened to explore sound and invent new instruments.

In this co-creation by Rachel Warr (Dotted Line Theatre) and Benjamin Oliver, performed by the musicians of Paramirabo, our hero, the modern-day Pythagoras, invites children families to follow him in her surreal, amusing and even danceable experiments.

A Paramirabo production, co presented by Le Vivier, Bach Before Bedtime and Une école montréalaise pour tous.

‘Pythagoras’ Toolkit’

I’m really delighted that Pythagoras’ Toolkit, led by Ensemble Paramirabo (Montreal) and involving me as co-creator, composer and conductor, has been awarded funding from the Canadian Council for the Arts.

In Pythagoras’ Toolkit Rachel Warr (co-creator/director, Dotted Line Theatre) and I will bring to life, through puppetry and live music, a modern-day Pythagoras who will explore sound, space (conceptual/sound/realworld), rhythm, harmony and dissonance (order and chaos), instrument making/design, dance, musical textures and ways of constructing music.

The production, currently planning for a tour in 2021, will feature musicians from Ensemble Paramirabo (Canada), Workers Union Ensemble (UK) and two musically literate puppeteers working with a specially created Pythagoras puppet.

Rachel and I are concocting ideas already… more soon!