It speaks! In Voi(REX), a masterwork by Philippe Leroux, the singer's voice merges, at the end of the piece, with the composer's own voice, in a memorable morphing effect. Before that, it will have woven every possible interplay with the instrumental writing, every transition between poetic speech and song. In Philippe Hurel's Speech, an actor's voice attempts to tell us something about a creation unfolding before our eyes and ears. To borrow the title of Hibiki Mukai's work: human voice, or artificial? It is, above all, the voice of despair and irony, the voice of a performative act, one that is highly premeditated. In Exulansis, Rocío Cano Valiño explores the resignation that comes with giving up on trying to put an experience into words when others cannot relate to it.

Program

Philippe Hurel Speech - Premiere 2027
Commissioned by IRCAM-Centre Pompidou and assistance of the composition of a unique work from DRAC Île-de-France
Hibiki Mukai Voix Humaine / Voix Mécanique - Premiere 2027
Commissioned by IRCAM-Centre Pompidou and Tokyo Bunka Kaikan
Rocío Cano Valiño Exulansis - Premiere 2027
Assistance of the composition of a unique work from DRAC Île-de-France
Philippe Leroux Voi(REX)

Distribution

Élise Chauvin soprano
Florent Baffi singer
Ensemble Court-circuit
Jean Deroyer conductor
Carlo Laurenzi, Serge Lemouton, Manuel Poletti IRCAM electronics
Sylvain Cadars IRCAM sound diffusion

Coproduction IRCAM-Centre Pompidou, Ensemble Court-circuit. With the support of the Sacem.