"Space is the place" said Sun Ra. At the age of 7, Didier Petit mistook Neil for Louis Armstrong and was convinced Satchmo had landed on the moon. Years of conventional, if brilliant, classical studies didn't disabuse him of the notion of an anti-gravitational path. The cellist's dream of perfecting Bach's Six Suites is, simply, " not for me, you have to be who you are".

"Space is the place" said Sun Ra. At the age of 7, Didier Petit mistook Neil for Louis Armstrong and was convinced Satchmo had landed on the moon. Years of conventional, if brilliant, classical studies didn't disabuse him of the notion of an anti-gravitational path. The cellist's dream of perfecting Bach's Six Suites is, simply, " not for me, you have to be who you are". For him, music must embody time and space; it is vital, real, unhygenic. Taking the cello beyond its traditional repertoire reveals its completeness as an instrument, its infinite capacity to create, disturb, transmit, manipulate... It's nothing to do with virtuosity, just paying a certain attention to the multi-faceted world around us, recognizing this multiplicity and devouring it as greedily as possible. "It's about emotion, all the emotions. Even if you don't  trust emotion. That's an emotion".