Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter Releases Six Hours Of Music From Dance Performance CHIROPTERA

Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter Releases Six Hours Of Music From Dance Performance CHIROPTERA

Last November, Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter teamed with artist JR and choreographer Damien Jallet on a performance involving 154 dancers in the forecourt of the Paris Opera House. CHIROPTERA, the soundtrack for that performance, is out today. The official soundtrack is EP-length, but Bangalter has also released five hours and 50 minutes of music from the project under the title CHIROPTERA MATIERE PREMIERE.

ALETHEIA 19, a sound installation Bangalter cooked up after CHIROPTERA, opens today in the Espace Saint-Claude in Paris. It consists of 19 “monophonic microgrooves cut on vinyl and presented in a simultaneous unsynchronised playback” and is part of DANS LA LUMIERE, JR’s fourth exhibition at Galerie Perrotin in Paris. ALETHEIA 19 runs through June 15.

Below, check out a wealth of new music related to CHIROPTERA. You’ll find the two tracks from the EP, “CHIROPTERA” and “CHIROPTERA (Solo Intro),” plus the six-hour CHIROPTERA MATIERE PREMIERE and a video of November’s performance.

CHIROPTERA and CHIROPTERA MATIERE PREMIERE are out now via Bangalter’s Alberts & Gothmaan label. Pre-order the EP on vinyl here.

Cedric Hervet

more from New Music