RESIDENCE AT MAISON DES ENSEMBLES

The Projet Parsifal was the laureate of the 2020/2021 residency organized by the Maison des Ensembles. Following a call for applications at the end of 2020, the group was selected for a nearly year-long residency at studio 21 of the Maison des Ensembles. The Maison des Ensembles is a scheme set up by the Paris City Council to support culture, with studio 21 specifically dedicated to music. It is within this studio, with the support of its sound engineers Alex and Thomas, that the Projet Parsifal took advantage of the space to rehearse and record a 3-track EP as the culmination of the residency. Despite a year marked by a pandemic we no longer name, and therefore a more complex organization of recordings, the group managed to record its EP in 2 weeks at the beginning of summer, accompanied by guest musicians invited by Perceval (harp, viola, violin, choir, saxophone...). Other opportunities also presented themselves to the group within the framework of the residency, such as the pressing of 300 CDs of the recorded EP, a concert for the Fête de la Musique in June 2021, and finally participation in the international exchange of the Weimar Triangle, a rich and extraordinary experience. In September, the Projet Parsifal was invited to record a podcast tracing the history of the group and its residency at the Maison des Ensembles, thus concluding a beautiful musical adventure.