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.
Croire aux fauves
Premiere 2024
In 2015, while on an anthropological mission in Siberia, Nastassja 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, and goes beyond the story of a traumatic accident to reflect on the encounter between human and non-human worlds at a time when the planet's ecosystems are collapsing. Croire aux fauves (Believing in Wild Beasts) is another encounter between Audrey Bonnet's voice and Frédéric Pattar's music, adapted by young director Mathilde Delahaye.
Nastassja Martin text
Frédéric Pattar composition, commissioned by IRCAM-Centre Pompidou
Mathilde Delahaye adaptation
Quentin Nivromont IRCAM computer music production
Jérémie Bourgogne sound engineering
With the voice of Audrey Bonnet
Based on Croire aux fauves by Nastassja Martin © Éditions Gallimard
L'autre fille
In this short story, Annie Ernaux addresses her older sister, who died before she was born, and whose existence she learned of fortuitously at the age of ten. The creation and sound diffusion system makes it possible to stage this letter without embodying it, to arouse the author's intimacy through her own voice, her breathing, through the imaginary presence of her body. A solitary and secret word, which will remain unanswered, except for the refined music of Aurélien Dumont, in an adaptation by Daniel Jeanneteau and with a sound design by Augustin Muller.
Annie Ernaux text
Aurélien Dumont composition, commissioned by IRCAM-Centre Pompidou
Daniel Jeanneteau adaptation and production
Augustin Muller sound design and production
Sylvain Cadars sound engineering
With the voice of Annie Ernaux
And music recorded by the ensemble L’Instant Donné: Nicolas Carpentier violoncelle, Maxime Echardour percussion, Mayu Sato-Brémaud flûte
Based on L'autre fille by Annie Ernaux (2011) © Édition Nil
Le sentiment du monde
based on L’Établi by Robert Linhart, from chapters « La Grève » and « Le Sentiment du monde »
L'Établi refers to the hundreds of intellectual militants who, from 1967 onwards, were hired and worked in factories or docks. Robert Linhart was one of them, spending a year as a worker in the Citroën factory in Choisy. Ten years later, he decided to share his story. Poignant and precise, this account allows us to appreciate the production system, the surveillance and repression, the unequal balance of power between the bosses and the workers, whether they were French or immigrants. L'établi is also the French word for workbench at which an old worker touches up damaged pieces before being used. Today, L'Établi brings together composer Roque Rivas and director Julia Vidit.
Robert Linhart text
Roque Rivas composition, commissioned by IRCAM-Centre Pompidou
Julia Vidit adaptation
Augustin Muller IRCAM computer music design
Oscar Ferran sound engineering
With the voices of Hassam Ghancy and music recorded by Mathieu Steffanus clarinet
Based on L'Établi by Robert Linhart © Éditions de Minuit