The Compassionate French Pianist - Vanessa Wagner (vegan), Part 2 of 2

In a February interview with our Supreme Master Television team, Vanessa spoke of how she was drawn to “minimal music” and started to interpret and collaborate with electronic musicians, such as Murcof to perform and produce albums. “I wanted to do something but I didn't want it to be piano-techno; well, that was unimaginable for me, and Murcof is a very mysterious character. He is someone who makes retreats of silence, of meditation. It's really the opposite of what you can imagine from show-off electro music. It's a very, very cerebral music, very meditative.”

From performing with Murcof in 2014 for the project “Beyond My Piano” and making the 2016 album “Statea,” Vanessa went on to produce two more solo albums in the post-minimalist repertoire, “Inland” in 2019 and “Inverness” in 2021.

Vanessa further integrated songs, poetry, and dance into her interpretations, and brought whole new artistic experiences to the audience. “Demagogy is really a thing where the vulgarity in some projects offends me greatly, but perhaps to try to propose to the public another way of listening to the music, another way also to join the styles, the ones with the others, and then to make the discovery of new repertoires, because finally the repertoire is absolutely immense and we play a small part of it. So once again there is a real responsibility, I think, or willingness on the part of the performers and programmers to be able to take the public towards something that is not an incessant repetition of the same system.”

In March 2022, to the eager anticipation of her fans, Vanessa released another album featuring minimalistic music, “Study of the Invisible.” “The ‘invisible’ is for me everything that is said between the notes, which is surely the most beautiful and the most precious, that is this kind of moment which links two notes, and which finally forms a sentence. It's also the links that didn't exist at that moment between people, the links of everything that we don't tell people we love, this kind of unspeakable and invisible which forms the bounds between the beings and in the music and which surely is the most beautiful thing in fact, because precisely the words are not there in fact.”