Reims
Elisa Hahn2023-07-26T16:56:12+01:00Soundwalk in Reims
Picture: ©Gaëtan Gromer
A project under development with the support of Saint-Ex, Culture Numérique.
Support: Ville de Strasbourg, Région Grand Est, ERDF, Collectivité européenne d’Alsace and DRAC Grand-Est.
Sound fiction available in 2024 on the dedicated application – GOH
Marseille
Elisa Hahn2023-09-26T10:39:20+01:00Soundwalk in Marseille
Picture: ©Gaëtan Gromer
Valérie Manteau will be writing the text for an upcoming soundwalk based in Marseille.
An author, editor and columnist, she was a member of the Charlie Hebdo team from 2008 to 2013. From 2013 to 2018, she joined the Musée des Civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée (Mucem) in Marseille as publishing and distribution manager.
She is the author of two novels. In Calme et Tranquille (2016), Valérie Manteau writes a biographical account that combines intimate memories and collective drama. In Le Sillon (2018), the author focuses on the story of Hrant Dink, a Turkish journalist and writer of Armenian origin who was murdered for defending an ideal of peace. She associates it with her own wandering through the streets of Istanbul. The book won her the Prix Renaudot.
A project under construction with the support of La Citadelle de Marseille and Chroniques .
Support: The City of Strasbourg, the Région Grand Est, the ERDF, the Collectivité européenne d’Alsace and the DRAC Grand-Est.
Sounwalk available in 2024 on the dedicated application – GOH
Belfort
Elisa Hahn2023-07-26T16:51:07+01:00Soundwalk in Belfort
Picture: ©Gaëtan Gromer
In a similar approach to his last collection, Splines, Luvan will be writing the text of a new geolocalised soundwalk exploring the language of life around the Etang des Forges in Belfort, with Gaëtan Gromer and Antoine Spindler creating the music.
A project in development with the help of the Espace multimédia Gantner.
Support: The City of Strasbourg Ville de Strasbourg, Région Grand Est, ERDF, Collectivité européenne d’Alsace and DRAC Grand-Est.
Soundwalk available in 2024 on the dedicated application – GOH
Wacken, Strasbourg
Elisa Hahn2023-09-25T15:14:40+01:00Dompter les rivières
Photo: ©Naohiro Ninomiya
DOCUMENTARY . PATCHWORK . MUTATION
10+ years old
Duration : 60 min
Dompter les rivières (Tame the rivers) is a multi-faceted, polyphonic, geo-localised soundwalk that takes you on a stroll through the many facets of Wacken, a patchwork district undergoing constant change.
A guiding character, inspired by the Tunisian fortune-teller who was present at the 1924 colonial exhibition, takes us through centuries and spaces. She allows us to navigate between her present, our present, and a more distant future (2123). Her voice intersects with others that are more neutral, factual, passionate, poetic or political. Dompter les rivières is also the story of a place that stages itself according to the ideologies that inhabit it. A wild place, veined with water, which little by little, from one narrative to the next, gives way to a utilitarian environment, completely under control.
But beneath the backdrop of this perpetual comedy, the water is always flowing peacefully, looking for the right gaps to gush out.
A soundwalk available soon on the dedicated application – GOH
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INFOS SUR ÉCOUTE
Elisa Hahn2023-11-06T16:55:38+01:00INFOS SUR ECOUTE
The project in brief:
In this performance the musicians re-combine the audio streams of a news channel to question real-time information and its presentational drift.
They mix up the characters, cut up and recompose, yet each spectator reconstitutes a common thread. The fabrication of information is so powerful, the archetypes so constant that, whatever happens, we create our own story, we believe we understand what is going on… Everything needs to be broadcast straight away. The media are all talking about the same thing at the same time. The only originality may be in the way it is presented. To simplify the world, they create characters, archetypes.
Credits
Artistic direction and interpretation: Duo Svië (Gaëtan Gromer & Antoine Spindler)
Production: Les Ensembles 2.2
JAFTA
Elisa Hahn2023-11-06T16:45:07+01:00JAFTA
The project in brief :
JAFTA is a hybrid scenic proposition at the crossroads between an installation and a concert, which invites people on an imaginary, immersive and singular journey. Traversing acoustics and electronics, JAFTA consists of a duo of augmented instruments, Antoine Spindler (viola) and Christophe Fourmaux (saxophones) accompanied by a real-time audio-reactive video. The amplified and modified sounds, born from the instrumental gesture, inflect the forms, colours and perspectives of the video, which is itself one with the installation. The sound waves generated by the musicians are analysed in real time and the evolution of parameters such as the dynamics or frequencies of the sound will influence the projected video, directly inspired by the rotoscoping technique. The sound and the visual are intimately linked and intertwined here, modifying each other according to the artists’ desires. It is this interaction that takes place in the moment that makes JAFTA unique, making it part of a perpetual evolution. Thanks to mapping techniques, the projection creates a singular scenography that follows the geometry of the place, highlights its asperities and underlines its architectural particularities. JAFTA comes in 3 forms, all the better to adapt to the different possibilities provided by the performance space:
. A form for planetariums
. A hybrid ‘pit’ form
. A frontal mapping form
The ensemble is driven by a strong desire to focus its aesthetics on musical experimentation through improvisation, the search for new forms, ‘non-fixed’ writing and sound research. Today, the current form of JAFTA extends this experience and develops a reflection on the concept of a local performance show by setting up, during a concert, an original project accessible to all
Credits
Artistic direction: Antoine Spindler & Christophe Fourmaux
Production: Les Ensembles 2.2
Schiltigheim Ouest
Elisa Hahn2023-03-03T17:30:20+01:00Oniropolis
Photo: ©Naohiro Ninomiya
ANTICIPATION . DREAMS . TECHNOLOGY
10+ years old
Duration: 45/60 min
In the near future, Oniropolis, a new kind of social network, is a craze among teenagers. It allows you to record, geolocate and share your dreams. Thanks to its famous dream map, it also allows you to glean the dreams of other users.
But for a few hours, the application has been down. A bug seems to have been triggered in the program, somewhere in France, probably in Schiltigheim. The company decides to send someone into Oniropolis to determine the source of the failure and clean up the system. That person is you.
Oniropolis is an open-air audio story, created and produced by Les Ensembles 2.2. It is a story to be listened to in the streets of Schiltigheim that transports you to an imaginary world through a science fiction narrative.
The author, Sebastian Dicenaire, lives and works in Brussels, but was born in Schiltigheim. With the Strasbourg-based composer duo Svië, he returns to his home town to create an audio story that explores the world of dreams and social networks.
Take your phone, download GOH, put on your headphones and start wandering. The buried secrets of the Oniropolis application await you in Schiltigheim…
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Belval, Esch-sur-Alzette
Elisa Hahn2023-03-03T17:30:01+01:00Acid Reine Cie.
Illustration: ©Valérie Etterlen
SCIENCE-FICTION . ANTICIPATION . DATA
10 years old +
Duration : 30 / 45 minutes
Welcome to Belval, home of the Acid-Reine company, the most promising digital company of recent years. Why exactly did you come here? And what do you know about the Acid-Reine company?
In this futuristic soundtrack, an innovative company offers to recycle your digital data into almost unlimited green energy. But this success is tinged with mystery: of the two founders of the company, one went mad, and the other disappeared in unexplained circumstances…
The story invites us to ‘cross the border’: between the visible and the invisible, the real and the imaginary; between Belval and the rest of the world. The musical composition conveys the strangeness of the neighbourhood: a modern, changing, multi-layered place on the borders of the unreal.
Acid-Reine Cie. was created as part of the In the field project for Esch2022, European Capital of Culture.
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Text: Sebastian Dicenaire
Music: Svië (Gaëtan Gromer, Antoine Spindler)
Sound recording: Marc Namblard
Illustration: Valérie Etterlen
Voices: Matëo Granger, Yann Hartmann, Pauline Leurent (French version), Richard Doust, Ella Perrin (English version)
Voice Studio: Innervision
Artistic director: Gaëtan Gromer
Production: Les Ensembles 2.2
Acknowledgements : The Belval Fund
Villerupt
Elisa Hahn2023-03-03T17:29:36+01:00Les saisons invisibles
Illustration: ©Valérie Etterlen
DOCUMENTARY . WORKERS . VESTIGES
12+ years old
Duration: 60 / 90 minutes
The face of cities depends on the direction they look. Villerupt now looks towards Luxembourg, towards the border. The heart around which it was built has emptied and its arteries send its flow over there, on the other side. The heart is to be rebuilt, from a common memory. And lost moments of the Saisons Invisibles (invisible seasons).
Hélène Gaudy is a novelist; Christina Kubisch is a composer. Inspired by the history of the town of Villerupt, on the French-Luxembourg border, and the stories of its inhabitants, they created The Invisible Seasons.
This journey tells the story of the region: the landscape shaped by the mines and the emptiness that remains today. It is an image of people, of the various successive waves of immigration; but also of the territory and of the nearby borders, which define the work today. A multiplicity of stories, moments and memories obtained thanks to the testimonies of the inhabitants, who dialogue with the written text: points of view that intersect and complement each other.
The Invisible Seasons was created as part of the In the field project, for Esch2022, European Capital of Culture.
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Credits
- Text: Hélène Gaudy Music: Christina KubischSound recording: Christina Kubisch, Marc NamblardIllustration: Valérie EtterlenVoices: Matëo Granger, Mathilde Melero (French version), Eli Finberg (English version)
Voice studio: Innervision
Artistic direction: Gaëtan Gromer
Production: Les Ensembles 2.2
With sound extracts by Daniel Brachetti from the short film “Des quetsches pour l’hiver”, J.-P. Menichetti, 1974
Acknowledgements : Tom Thiel, sound engineer