Lullaby experience
Lullaby Experience is a participatory project imagined by the composer Pascal Dusapin, open to all, children and adults, everywhere. Each of us has, deep inside, a melody that marked our childhood. Often, this nursery rhyme is deformed with time and memory. It is this memory, buried deep within us, that the composer has asked us to sing, to hum, online via the application Lullaby Experience. The recordings collected will provide the sound material used for a musical creation. Transformed and assembled with IRCAM technologies, the melodies create a singing map of the world. In Paris, just like in the other cities where the work will be presented, the songs sketch the sonic portrait of the city’s inhabitants. The collection of songs will reflect the demographics and multicultural reality of the town, or towns, where Lullaby Experience will be presented. In Frankfort, Lullaby Experience won’t sound like it will in Paris or Venice or Tokyo.
LULLABY EXPERIENCE PASCAL DUSAPIN premiere 2019
Pascal Dusapin, conception and musical creation
Ensemble Modern
Claus Guth, director
Etienne Pluss, stage design
Olaf Winter, light
Roland Horvath vidéo
Yvonne Gebauer dramaturgy
Dorothee Joisten costumes
Axel Weidauer assistant director
Clémence de Vergnette assistant set designer
Gal Fefferman choreography collaboration
Thierry Coduys, IRCAM electroacoustic system production and mixing
Jérôme Nika, IRCAM computer music collaboration (IRCAM-STMS musical representations team)
