{"id":131804,"date":"2025-01-28T09:09:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T14:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/dossiers-360\/affinites-meconnues-entre-metal-et-classique-le-diable-est-dans-les-details\/"},"modified":"2025-01-29T14:01:39","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T19:01:39","slug":"affinites-meconnues-entre-metal-et-classique-le-diable-est-dans-les-details","status":"publish","type":"dossiers","link":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/en\/dossiers-360\/affinites-meconnues-entre-metal-et-classique-le-diable-est-dans-les-details\/","title":{"rendered":"Unknown Affinities Between Metal and Classical Music \/ The Devil is in The Details (4)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On January 29 and 30, the world premieres of Voivod Symphonique take place, a rare public event that juxtaposes classical \u201chigh culture\u201d with the underground world of metal. Yet there are many links between these two European traditions, both in terms of music and history. Nevertheless, even the most erudite of scholars, and orchestral musicians in particular, remain largely unaware of this connection. To demystify the context in which this extraordinary collaboration culminates, our collaborator and musicologist Laurent Bellemare offers a brilliant comparative overview of the similarities between these two worlds. This is the fourth and final part of his excellent dossier.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Un enjeu de cordes vocales<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Like opera, whose soloists’ vibrato and vocal projection techniques are often hard to digest for the average person, metal repels so many music lovers because of its vocal approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGrowl is still the biggest barrier,\u201d explains Pascal Germain-Berardi, elucidating this apprehension shared even by many musicians. David Therrien Brongo agrees, pointing out that \u201cthe voice is what reaches people the most. We use our vocal cords every day. To imagine growing, I imagine it hurts people. [\u2026] I don’t know if it’s a form of empathy, a block or the fact that people shout\u2026 people don’t like bickering\u2026 Again, the distortion [of the guitar], it’s the grainy side, the grain that also reminds me of the growl of the voice. It’s not smooth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here too, there’s a parallel to be drawn with contemporary music and its gritty, noisy techniques.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David adds: \u201cI’m just working on a piece where I’m running a bow over [Styrofoam]. I don’t mind it, but there are people for whom it has the same effect as fingernails on a painting. I know that at concerts, some people will jump on their chairs at that effect\u2026 it’s classical music!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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