TRADUCTIONS (Translations) is a composition for ten Moog Mother-32 synthesizers and a live filmed performance, projected in real time.

A sentence encoded in Morse code structures the composition. Each chapter translates one word of this hidden message through different forms.

Ten performers interpret a graphic score live on stage, while Gabriela Hébert performs simultaneously in a hidden room, filmed by multiple cameras in synchrony with the ensemble. A video operator manages the feed, projected live for the audience throughout the piece. At the end, the chain of translation completes itself, Hébert stepping out of the hidden room: the video becomes real.

Moving between Morse code, notation, sound, gesture, image and performance, the work traces a chain of translations between different modes of communication, where meaning continuously shifts from one form to another. Between universal systems and personal interpretations, it reflects on the fragile space where meaning is negotiated, translated, and sometimes lost.