Composers & Artists in Studio

Thinking Things : matière à penser sur les objets pensants Voilà sept ans que Georges Aperghis ne s’était plus frotté au théâtre musical, dont i…

“I am from Chili,” begins Fernando Munizaga, as if it were obvious. “For Chileans, earthquakes are not a far-off and abstract concept, they are a reality experienced every day. Chili is situated in o…

Clearly indicated in the title, the musical project in this work is based on the concept of catharsis. In Greek, it means “separation of good with bad”. The term is used in medicine and psychoanalysi…

At first, the pitch for Mockumentary of a Contemporary Saviour, the new show by Wim Vandekeybus, is reminiscent of a Hollywood blockbuster: an uncertain future...

This quartet finds its inspiration in a pirate story. Not pirates of the Caribbean, with an eye patch and a parrot on their shoulder. Not airline hijackers either…. although…. Here, it is more "infor…

A Question of Levity! La Princesse légère (The Light Princess) is exactly that: light. Light in every sense of the word. Victim of a spell cast by an evil witch, she has no gravity: no…

A few points appear, like seeds, on the large three-dimensional screen. From these points lines are born as if drawn by hand, multiplying and intertwining with each other, weaving a perfectly recogni…

One of today's biggest trends is augmented instruments. And, among augmented instruments, the string quartet is doubtless the one that wins over the most composers. The principle is simple: with the …

Shatter the concert format! This is the goal declared by the composer Elzbieta Sikora in her Sonosphères III & IV. Erase the ceremony that encapsulates the beginning of each classical musical perform…

Welcome to Pyramiden! It’s here, at 78 degrees north, in Spitzberg a couple hundred kilometers from the North Pole that composer Jérôme Combier and video artist Pierre Nouvel have brought us. A ghost…

Published by P.O.L. in the beginning of 2015, Providence by Olivier Cadiot is not a text written for the stage, even less with the idea that computer music take it over. It is a four-sided tale, writ…

On the Brink Infinite Now: Certainly an enigmatic and mysterious title, but that, in reality, says much about this atypical staged work. The third opera by Chaya Czernowin is not an opera like other…

The exhibition ON AIR is like an ecosystem in motion, welcoming a polyphonic choreography between humans and non-humans, where works reveal common, fragile, and fleeting rhythms and trajectories that…

One of the first things that excited the composer Benjamin Dupé when he imagined this commission for Open Source Guitars, was the six guitars of this atypical ensemble. Of course the six guita…