How can you create songs without a singer? Composer Zeynep Toraman imagines a synthetic, disembodied, and uncanny voice in dialogue with instrumental performance. How can the identity of instruments be altered? In Nun VI, Sarah Nemtsov exploits the ambiguity of electronic instrument-making to create a shift between intense immersion and minimalist spaces. How can one escape the standardized formats of musical creation? With Laub (“foliage”), Enno Poppe cultivates a veritable vegetal proliferation.

Program

Zeynep Toraman Sometimes at Night the Far Away Stars - French Premiere
Enno Poppe Laub - French Premiere
Sarah Nemtsov Nun VI - Premiere 2026
Commissioned by Contrechamps, the Théâtre de Magdebourg, and IRCAM-Centre Pompidou

Distribution

Ensemble Contrechamps
Enno Poppe conductor
Yann Brecy, Augustin Muller IRCAM electronics
Luca Bagnoli IRCAM sound diffusion

Coproduction IRCAM-Centre Pompidou, Ensemble Contrechamps.