Musiques-Fictions
The Musiques-Fictions combine a contemporary text, a musical creation, and a collective experience of immersive listening. A collection launched in 2020, a program in which musical creation is in direct contact with literary fiction. Giving full scope to musical writing and full intelligibility to the text: Musiques-Fictions intends to renew the genre of radio fiction, the Hörspiel, by going beyond the simple sonic illustration of the narrative or dialogue, when the image no longer acts as a screen.
The Great Disaster - Premiere 2024
On April 14, 1912, at 11:40 pm, the Titanic sank with Giovanni Pastore on board, in charge of cleaning the 3177 dessert spoons for the first-class passengers. Giovanni Pastore came down from the mountains of Friuli. He's always been the immigrant, the handyman. At last, he found a "good place" on the Titanic. In the end, he sinks! But beneath the waves, he keeps telling the same story, the story of lost land and childhood, of love found at last. He tells the story of the third class, of those never counted, of those left behind by all the nations who hoped to win the promised land of free labor. He tells the story of the great and small disasters.
Patrick Kermann text
Jérôme Combier adaptation and composition, commissioned by IRCAM-Centre Pompidou
Marc Lainé realisation
Clément Cerles sound engineering
Gilles Marsalet sound effects
With the voices of Vladislav Galard, song by Sofia Avramidou and music recorded by Amarilys Billet violon, Nicolas Crosse bass, Ayumi Mori clarinet, Alvise Sinivia piano, Diego Tosi violin, Fanny Vicens accordeon
Croire aux fauves - Premiere 2024
In 2015, while on an anthropological mission in Siberia, Nasstassja Martin was attacked by a bear that tore off half her face. Disfigured, she underwent numerous operations in Russia, then in France. The researcher tells the story of her physical and psychological reconstruction, but goes beyond the story of this traumatic accident to reflect on the encounter between human and non-human worlds at a time when the planet's ecosystems are collapsing. The "encounter" with this bear brings her face to face with an essential figure in the mythology of the Evène people, and a Nature inhabited by ancestral beliefs. This event finally enabled her to deepen her research and her attachment to the Arctic peoples she studies.
Nastassja Martin text
Frédéric Pattar composition, commissioned by IRCAM-Centre Pompidou
Mathilde Delahaye adaptation and realisation
Quentin Nivromont IRCAM computer music production
Jérémie Bourgogne sound engineering
With the voice of Audrey Bonnet
Un pas de chat sauvage
Inspired by the West Indian artist Maria Martinez, nicknamed the Black Malibran, the story's narrator is an academic who is researching this admired and then vilified figure. Her work is disrupted by the sudden appearance in her life of a singer who might have something to do with the artist that Nadar photographed in her splendor, but also in her decline. This text by Marie NDiaye was written on the occasion of the exhibition "The Black Model" held in 2019 at the Musée d'Orsay.
Marie NDiaye text
Gérard Pesson composition, commissioned by IRCAM-Centre Pompidou
David Lescot adaptation
Robin Meier IRCAM computer music design
Clément Cerles sound engineering
With the voices of Jeanne Balibar and music recorded by the ensemble Cairn : Ayumi Mori clarinet, Caroline Cren piano, Fanny Vicens accordeon, Christelle Sery guitar, Laurent Camatte viola