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Citadelle of Marseille

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2025-09-17T14:46:27+01:00

Citadelle Cast

Photo: ©Matëo Granger

Heritage . Testimony . Social History

 

Details

Free

From 10 years old

Duration : 15-20 min per episode

4 episodes to discover at the Citadel

Organiser

The Citadelle of Marseille

Place

Citadelle of Marseille
In the gardens of the Citadelle and at the Haut-Fort

 

A sound gallry of characters to discover at the Citadelle of Marseille

Citadelle Cast is a project comprising four geolocated sound fictions that invite you to delve into the layers of history at Fort Saint-Nicolas, moving from one era to another and from one narrative voice to another, each expressing itself according to the codes of its time.

Three new sound fictions to discover while following the guard tour of the Haut-Fort at the Citadel

 

On the first tour, discover ‘Through the main gate’, where we are at the current restoration site, accompanied by Tigran. He has been employed on a work integration scheme for several months and shares his pride in the work accomplished and his personal journey since arriving in Marseille, ‘in social media mode’.

On the second tour, with ‘Down the hole’, we are escorted to the exit by Francine, a switchboard operator at the military telephone exchange located in the basement of the Fort in the 1970s. Francine finishes her shift, happy to see the light of day again, but due to her professional training, she is always ‘on duty’ – on the lookout for the slightest incident at the Fort.

We take one last stroll while listening to ‘Wage war at war’ with Henri, a teacher, trade unionist and pacifist, imprisoned in the Fort after being denounced by his neighbours for publicly criticising the general mobilisation and the return of war in September 1939. Henri manages to circumvent censorship and write to his wife to tell her what goes on behind the scenes at the Fort.

Sound fictions available from 20 September 2025 on the dedicated app – GOH

Discover an exclusive preview now and head to the Citadelle to hear the rest!

 

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Valérie Manteau is a French author, editor and columnist. Her first two books, Calme et Tranquille (2016) and Le Sillon (2018), were published by Le Tripode. For these first novels, she drew inspiration from Turkey, a country dear to her heart, to weave her narrative. In 2018, she received the Renaudot Prize for her second novel, Le Sillon. She was part of the Charlie Hebdo team and was also an editor at Les Échappés publishing house from 2008 to 2013.
In 2013, she joined the Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations (Mucem) in Marseille as publishing and distribution manager. She now lives between Marseille and Istanbul.

Gaëtan Gromer – Composer, artist and sound producer born in 1978, he lives and works in Strasbourg. Artistic director of Ensembles 2.2 (a sound creation studio particularly active in the public sphere) and member of the executive committee and board of directors of HACNUM (national network for hybrid arts and digital cultures), he regularly engages his work in dialogue with other disciplines. He has worked with Maria La Ribot, Valérie Manteau, Hélène Gaudy, Etienne Fanteguzzi, Sebastian Dicenaire, Eve Risser, Lucie Taïeb, Clara Olivares, LNLO, Samuel and Léo Henry, luvan, Zahra Poonawala, Stéphane Perger, Espèce de collectif, among others.
He is the winner of the 2012 Imagina Atlantica European Digital Arts Award, and his albums [fri:z] and Noise Level are respectively among the ten best ambient albums of 2014 according to the French webzine SWQW and the ten best drone albums of 2016 according to the American webzine A Closer Listen.

Antoine Spindler – Trained at the Strasbourg Conservatory in the classes of Ana Haas (violin) and Claude Ducroq (viola), as well as at the University of Strasbourg in musicology, Antoine Spindler studied at Ircam, Fastlane, PML and elsewhere, specialising in electroacoustic and mixed music. He teaches in the Electroacoustic Creation and Performance class at the Conservatoire and at the Académie Supérieure de Musique-Hear in Strasbourg. He currently plays in the Jafta trio, with whom he released the album Traces, and in the Svië duo, with whom he created the album Port Data. His experiences have allowed him to collaborate with various ensembles and musicians (Linéa, Live Animated Orchestra, the Ethos quartet, Plurium, Clara Olivares, Eve Risser, etc.) as well as with various authors (Hélène Gaudy, Jean Fauque, Valérie Manteau, Sébastien Dicenaire, Lucie Taïeb, etc.).

Citadelle Cast est un projet soutenu par le Ministère des Armées, la Ville de Strasbourg, la Région Grand-Est, la CEA, le FEDER et la DRAC Grand-Est

Credits: 

Text: Valérie Manteau

Realisation: Gaëtan Gromer

Music: Gaëtan Gromer, Antoine Spindler

Voices (french): Fred Cacheux, Pauline Leurent, Suren Nersier

Voices (english): Katie Flamman, Rob Goldstone, André Nersier

English translation: Richard Doust

Recording studio: Innervision

Sound recording, mix: Antoine Spindler

Production : Les Ensembles 2.2

Partner and support: La Citadelle de Marseille

Citadelle, Marseille

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2025-09-17T14:47:59+01:00

L’île aux chiens (the isle of dogs)

Picture: ©Matëo Granger

Testimony . Heritage . Social History

Details

Price: Free

Age: 10+

Duration: 20/30 min

Organiser

La Citadelle de Marseille
Chroniques – La Biennale des imaginaires numériques

Place

Around the Citadelle
Marseille
When I was a kid, I dreamt of being a lighthouse guardian, and as things have turned out, I wasn’t too far off. When people ask what I do, I say I’m the Guardian of the Fort.

You might think my imagination is far too vivid, and you wouldn’t be wrong. The thing is, I have to imagine things, given that I’m on my own all day. It’s a pretty solitary line of work, but with the echoes of so many stories in my head, I’ve got plenty to keep my mind busy.

Valérie Manteau,
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The opening of Fort Saint-Nicolas to the public in 2024, even if only partially, is a highly anticipated event for the residents of the city of Marseille. A heavy gate will finally open on one of Marseille’s most visible, best-identified buildings, most steeped in history – but also one of its most mysterious.

Valérie Manteau invites you to explore the sensitive shadowy areas that remain in the interstices of Marseille’s great heroic history, which was written stone by stone in the fort. A walk among the ghosts that plunges you into the mysteries of the Citadelle and sheds light on a little-known episode shrouded in fantasy and suspicion: the occupation of the Citadelle by hundreds of animals, under the aegis of the Army Health and Veterinary Service from 1978 to 2011.

By entrusting its evocation to a civilian who is simply a dog walker, this sound fiction, embodied at a human level, will accompany your journey and try to lift the veil on the taboos protected by the walls that stand in the heart of the city.

Sounwalk available from May 4 on the dedicated application – GOH

Know more

Valérie Manteau – is a French author, editor and columnist. Her first two books, Calme et Tranquille (2016) and Le Sillon (2018), are published by Le Tripode. For these first novels, she draws inspiration from Turkey, a country close to her heart, to weave her narrative. In 2018, she won the Prix Renaudot for her second novel, Le Sillon. A former member of the “Charlie Hebdo” team, she was also editor at Les Échappés from 2008 to 2013.
In 2013, she joined the Musée des Civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée (Mucem) in Marseille, as publishing and distribution manager. She now lives between Marseille and Istanbul.

Gaëtan Gromer, born in 1978, is a sound composer, artist and director who lives and works in Strasbourg. He is the artistic director of Les Ensembles 2.2. He regularly brings his work into conversation with other disciplines, and has notably worked with Maria La Ribot, Valérie Manteau, Hélène Gaudy, Etienne Fanteguzzi, Sebastian Dicenaire, Eve Risser, Lucie Taïeb, Clara Olivares, LNLO, Samuel et Léo Henry, luvan, Zahra Poonawala, Stéphane Perger, Espèce de collectif…

He regularly performs and exhibits in Strasbourg (Musica, Ososphère, ONR, TNS, PMC, Maillon, Pôle Sud, etc.), as well as at MAMCO (Geneva), CAC (Vilnius), CCAM (Vandoeuvre), Gymnase (Roubaix), Laboral (Gijon), Transient (Paris), Accès)s( (Pau), Lieu Multiple (Poitiers), Contemporary Art Biennale (Sélestat), Nuit Blanche (Brussels), Digital Life (Rome), Electric Nights (Athens)…

Antoine Spindler – Trained at the Strasbourg Conservatory in the classes of Ana Haas (violin) and Claude Ducroq (viola), as well as at the University of Strasbourg in musicology, Antoine Spindler has trained (Ircam, Fastlane, PML…) and specialized in electroacoustic and mixed music. He teaches in the Electroacoustic Creation and Interpretation class at the Conservatoire and L’Académie Supérieure de Musique-Hear in Strasbourg. He currently plays with the trio Jafta, with whom he released the album Traces, and with the duo Svië, with whom he created the album Port Data. His experiences have enabled him to collaborate with various ensembles and musicians (Linéa, Live Animated Orchestra, the Ethos quartet, Plurium, Clara Olivares, Eve Risser etc.) as well as with different authors (Hélène Gaudy, Jean Fauque, Valérie Manteau, Sébastien Dicenaire, Lucie Taïeb etc.).

The City of Strasbourg, the Région Grand Est, the ERDF, the Collectivité européenne d’Alsace and the DRAC Grand-Est.

Credits: 

Text: Valérie Manteau

Production: Gaëtan Gromer

Music: Gaëtan Gromer, Antoine Spindler

Voice: Stina Soliva and Matëo Granger (french version), Ella Perrin and Richard Doust (english version)

Sound recordings, mix: Antoine Spindler 

Application: GOH

Executive producer: Les Ensembles 2.2

Partners: La Citadelle de Marseille, Chroniques – Biennale des imaginaires numériques and Radio Grenouille

Wacken, Strasbourg

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2025-09-17T14:48:30+01:00

Dompter les rivières (Tame the rivers)

Photo: ©Naohiro Ninomiya

DOCUMENTARY . PATCHWORK . MUTATION

A geolocated soundwalk available in french and in German – Die Flüsse zähmen !

Details

Price : Free

Age : 10+

Duration: 1h

Organiser

Festival Musica
Le Maillon – Scène européenne

Place

Wacken district
Strasbourg

Starting point: Theatre le Maillon

“WELCOME TO WACKEN!

Bounded by the Ill to the north-east, Avenue Herrenschmidt to the west, the Place de Bordeaux to the south and crossed by the Aar and the Marne-Rhine canal.

Wacken means “small stones”

We are where the Rhine used to run.

here, for a long time, it was nothing, the end of the town, wet land where no one lives”

Lucie Taïeb

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 on the dedicated application – GOH

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Gaëtan Gromer, born in 1978, is a sound composer, artist and director who lives and works in Strasbourg. He is the artistic director of Les Ensembles 2.2. He regularly brings his work into conversation with other disciplines, and has notably worked with Maria La Ribot, Valérie Manteau, Hélène Gaudy, Etienne Fanteguzzi, Sebastian Dicenaire, Eve Risser, Lucie Taïeb, Clara Olivares, LNLO, Samuel et Léo Henry, luvan, Zahra Poonawala, Stéphane Perger, Espèce de collectif…

He regularly performs and exhibits in Strasbourg (Musica, Ososphère, ONR, TNS, PMC, Maillon, Pôle Sud, etc.), as well as at MAMCO (Geneva), CAC (Vilnius), CCAM (Vandoeuvre), Gymnase (Roubaix), Laboral (Gijon), Transient (Paris), Accès)s( (Pau), Lieu Multiple (Poitiers), Contemporary Art Biennale (Sélestat), Nuit Blanche (Brussels), Digital Life (Rome), Electric Nights (Athens)… 

Eve Risser is a composer, pianist and improviser whose music is rooted equally in jazz, improvisation, the written tradition and contemporary music. After entering the jazz class at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, she won a conservatory prize in 2008, as well as a soloist prize at the Concours National de Jazz de la Défense. In 2019, she created the Red Desert Orchestra, following a strong interest in Africa and a reflection on the place of the musician in Occident.

Antoine Spindler – Trained at the Strasbourg Conservatory in the classes of Ana Haas (violin) and Claude Ducroq (viola), as well as at the University of Strasbourg in musicology, Antoine Spindler has trained (Ircam, Fastlane, PML…) and specialized in electroacoustic and mixed music. He teaches in the Electroacoustic Creation and Interpretation class at the Conservatoire and L’Académie Supérieure de Musique-Hear in Strasbourg. He currently plays with the trio Jafta, with whom he released the album Traces, and with the duo Svië, with whom he created the album Port Data. His experiences have enabled him to collaborate with various ensembles and musicians (Linéa, Live Animated Orchestra, the Ethos quartet, Plurium, Clara Olivares, Eve Risser etc.) as well as with different authors (Hélène Gaudy, Jean Fauque, Valérie Manteau, Sébastien Dicenaire, Lucie Taïeb etc.).

Lucie Taïeb was born in Paris in 1977. She passed the German agrégation in 2002 and obtained a PhD in comparative literature in 2008. She is currently a lecturer in Germanic Studies at the University of Brest. Her writings span a range of genres, including poetry, novels and essays, and she regularly works with artists. Lucie Taïeb has published several collections of poetry, as well as two novels, both published by Éditions de l’Ogre. Her second novel, Les échappées, was awarded the Prix Wepler in 2019. She is also a translator, notably of Austrian poets including Ernst Jandl and Friederike Mayröcker.

The city of Strasbourg, the Région Grand Est, the FEDER, the Collectivité Européenne d’Alsace (CEA), the DRAC Grand-Est and CREAA – University of Strasbourg

Credits

Text: Lucie Taïeb

Realisation: Gaëtan Gromer

Music: Antoine Spindler, Eve Risser

Voices: Fayssal Benbahmed, Pauline Leurent, Maxime Pacaud and Marie Seux

Voices (German): Amélie Belohradsky, Katja Harsdorf, Christophe Palz, Moritz Pliquet

Recording studio: Innervision

Text translation: Tatjana Marwinski

Sound recordings: Antoine Spindler

Application: GOH

Production: Les Ensembles 2.2

Co-production: Festival Musica, Theater le Maillon – Scène européenne

Villerupt

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2025-09-17T14:50:39+01:00

Les saisons invisibles

Illustration: ©Valérie Etterlen

DOCUMENTARY . WORKERS . VESTIGES

 

Details

Price : Free

12+ years old

Duration: 60/90 minutes

Organizer

Esch2022

Location

Villerupt
Meurthe-et-Moselle
France

Start :

Place Jeanne d’Arc

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

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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The musical composition is in keeping with the theme of boundaries: it uses different sources of sounds found on the spot, captured beyond the usual acoustic noises: the invisible waves of Villerupt, the electromagnetic fields, the contact microphones, the hidden vibrations.

Text and music come together to create a photograph of the territory and its history. Through the seasons that punctuate the sound journey, borders follow one another: those crossed in the past, the one that separated France and Germany, the one now crossed by French people working in Luxembourg. This shows their shifting, arbitrary, but also emotional character. Living in a border town is a series of possible changes of scenery, a fragility at the same time as a wealth.

Hélène Gaudy is a novelist. After studying visual arts, she led numerous projects combining writing, image and landscape. She has published art books, books for young people and several stories, including Vues sur la Mer (Les Impressions nouvelles, 2006, second selection for the Prix Médicis), Plein Hiver (Actes Sud, 2014), and Un Monde sans Rivage (Actes Sud, 2009) which was shortlisted for the Prix Goncourt. She is a member of the Inculte collective and the editorial board of the magazine La Moitié du Fourbi. 

Christina Kubisch, born in Bremen in 1948, belongs to the first generation of sound artists. Although she is best known for her sound installations and electroacoustic compositions, her practice also extends to video and visual arts. Since 2003, she has been making the ‘Electrical Walks’ series around the world, sound walks in urban spaces, where electromagnetic fields are amplified. Christina Kubisch has taught audiovisual arts in Berlin, Paris, Saarbrücken and Oxford. She has received numerous awards, including the Giga-Hertz 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award. She currently lives and works in Berlin.

With the support of Esch2022, European Capital of Culture, as well as the French Ministry of Culture, the DRAC Grand Est, the Région Grand Est, the Centre National de la Musique, the Collectivité Européenne d’Alsace, the Département Meurthe-et-Moselle, the Ville d’Esch-sur-Alzette, the Ville et Eurométropole de Strasbourg, LISER (Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research), the Musica Festival and Puzzle Thionville.

In partnership with Residhome Luxembourg and the Cottage Luxembourg.

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

Thil

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2025-09-17T14:51:56+01:00

La mine est une bouche

Illustration: ©Valérie Etterlen

POETRY . MEMORY . BIOGRAPHIES

 

Details

Price : Free

16+ years old

Duration: 30 / 45 min

Organizer

Esch2022

Location

Thil
Meurthe-et-Moselle
France

Début du parcours : in front of the Tiercelet mines

We enter the mine as if entering a mouth. A dark den, where the wind makes the barbed wire creak like ropes and the crematoria echo with a dull lament.

Marina Skalova

La mine est une bouche (‘The mine is a mouth‘) takes you into the dark depths of the Tiercelet mines in Thil, where, during the Second World War, Jewish deportees and Soviet resistance fighters were forced to undertake hard labour by the Nazis to manufacture V1 missiles.

It is the story of these bodies that writer Marina Skalova and composer Jacob Kirkegaard tell through this sound and poetic creation, which probes the traces left by the war and seeks to translate them into physical experience.

Outside the mine, the trail continues to the former site of the Thil concentration camp, where six poems bring out the unspeakable in the remains of history.

La mine est une bouche was created as part of the In the field project for Esch2022, European Capital of Culture.

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Inspired by interviews with the inhabitants of Thil and the documentary film Rodina by Jean-Louis Sonzogni, La mine est une bouche questions the borders that intrude on bodies until they break them. At once a documented fiction, a historical evocation and a plunge into the digestive corridors, the work slips into the very bowels of the Second World War.

From the trachea to the intestines, each bodily boundary is a threshold bearing the trace of the abuse inflicted on the prisoners. From their arrest in Minsk in Belarus to their deportation to France, to their escape before the Liberation and their final return to the Soviet Union, the different moments of their History are translated into a living journey. 

An attempt to capture the sensory vestiges of history, between the rustling of the forest, the chirping of birds and the flow of water taken from the mine where the prisoners were subjected to forced labour.

Marina Skalova is a writer, playwright and translator of German and Russian. She writes at the intersection of languages and literary genres. Her works include the bilingual poetry collection Atemnot (Souffle court) (Cheyne Editeur, Prix de la Vocation en poésie, 2016), the narrative Exploration du flux (Seuil, 2018), the play La chute des comètes et des cosmonautes (L’Arche, 2019) and Silences d’exils, a book and exhibition produced in collaboration with the photographer Nadège Abadie (Editions d’en bas, 2020). Her texts give rise to readings, performances, stagings and collaborations with choreographers. She regularly performs on stage with musicians, for rock readings-concert with Simone Aubert (Hyperculte, Tout bleu) or by combining her texts with the contemporary music of the duo KleXs.

Jacob Kirkegaard is a Danish sound artist. In his works, he seeks to reflect on complex, inaccessible or interesting places and environments through immersive sound explorations. His works deal with themes such as radioactivity in Chernobyl and Fukushima, border walls in global and metaphorical contexts and melting ice in the Arctic. He also creates works using otoacoustic emissions, sounds generated by the human ear. His work method stems from the use of sound recordings of tangible aspects of intangible themes. His sound creations have been released on labels such as Important Records (USA), Touch (UK) and Posh Isolation (DK). He has exhibited his work around the world, including at MoMA in New York, LOUISIANA – Museum of Modern Art and ARoS in Denmark, the Sydney Biennale in Australia, the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, Japan.

With the support of Esch2022, European Capital of Culture, as well as the French Ministry of Culture, the DRAC Grand Est, the Région Grand Est, the Centre National de la Musique, the Collectivité Européenne d’Alsace, the Département Meurthe-et-Moselle, the Ville d’Esch-sur-Alzette, the Ville et Eurométropole de Strasbourg, LISER (Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research), the Musica Festival and Puzzle Thionville.

In partnership with Residhome Luxembourg and the Cottage Luxembourg.

Credits 

Text: Marina Skalova

Music: Jacob Kirkegaard

Sound recording: Jacob Kirkegaard

Illustration: Valérie Etterlen

Voices: Amélie Belohradsky, Marina Skalova (French version), Ashley Billings, Nelly Henrion (English version)

Voice Studio: Innervision

Artistic Director: Gaëtan Gromer

Production: Les Ensembles 2.2

Acknowledgements: Gino Bertacco, Stéphane Brusco, Emmanuel Mittaut, Daniel Pascolini and the association Mémoire de la mine.

Jean-Louis Sonzogni for his documentary film Rodina.

Port du Rhin, Strasbourg

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2025-09-17T14:52:31+01:00

Port Data

©Naohiro Ninomiya

DOCUMENTARY . MEMORIES . FIRES

Details

Price : Free

10+ years old

Duration: 60-90 min

Organizer

Esch2022

Location

Quartier Port du Rhin, Strasbourg France

Start:

Point Coop, Rue du Port du Rhin

“In the middle of the night, at the end of a wharf in the Port du Rhin industrial zone, something was burning. Throughout the country, malfunctions were reported, but no one saw the data centre and its nebulous data disappear into the flames.

On the site, you have to observe, survey and decode the signs: listen to a landscape which, little by little, begins to tell a completely different story.

Does memory smell when it burns? What do its ashes look like?”

Hélène Gaudy

A digital audio story, the work mixes fiction and musical composition, but is also enriched by the participation of the inhabitants who transmit life stories linked to the places, in order to anchor the project in the territory. Set across different places in the Port du Rhin in Strasbourg, Port Data invites you to wander around and (re)discover this area through sound.

Port Data is part of the In the field project, created for Esch2022, European Capital of Culture.

En savoir plus

Hélène Gaudy surveyed the Port du Rhin as a student at the École des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg in the early 2000s. Gaëtan Gromer, Clara Olivares and Antoine Spindler are from Strasbourg. Together, the novelist and the three composers drew inspiration from life in the neighborhood to create a literary and musical journey that invites you to wander. The story is geolocated and accessible via the GOH mobile app and a phone equipped with headphones…

Hélène Gaudy is a novelist. After studying visual arts, she led numerous projects combining writing, image and landscape. She has published art books, books for young people and several stories, including Vues sur la Mer (Les Impressions nouvelles, 2006, second selection for the Prix Médicis), Plein Hiver (Actes Sud, 2014), and Un Monde sans Rivage (Actes Sud, 2009) which was shortlisted for the Prix Goncourt. She is a member of the Inculte collective and the editorial board of the magazine La Moitié du Fourbi.

Gaëtan Gromer leads a creative activity at a crossroads between composition, performance and multimedia installation. He uses the astonishing power of suggestion and immersion of sound to deliver a certain view of the world, a particular point of hearing, to ‘tell’ with sound. He is one of the winners of the Imagina Atlantica 2012 European Digital Arts Prize in Angoulême and wrote the music for Samuel Henry’s Juste l’embrasser, which won the SABAM prize at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival in 2008.

Clara Olivares is a composer from Strasbourg. At the age of twenty-three, she wrote her first opera, Mary, for ensemble, puppets and live electronics, premiered in 2017 by Ensemble XXI.n. In 2019, she participated in the Académie Opéra en création of the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and won the Nicola DeLorenzo Composition Prize. In 2020, she was awarded the Beaumarchais-SACD grant for lyric writing with the librettist Chloé Lechat. She has been a laureate of the Banque Populaire Foundation since 2021. Clara Olivares is Associate Composer of the Orchestre de chambre de Paris for the 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 seasons.

Antoine Spindler is a violist and teacher at the Haute école des Arts du Rhin. A member of the Ethos Quartet and the Plurium Ensemble, he has also played with the Linéa Ensemble and the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra. He has performed on several stages, including the Festival Musica in Strasbourg, the Tonhalle in Zurich and the Asian-Pacific Contemporary Music Festival in Seoul, South Korea. He specialises in electroacoustic and mixed music, notably with the Live.Animated.Orchestra or as a member of the Jafta trio.

As part of the Festival Musica and Esch2022 – European Capital of Culture

Credits:

Texts : Hélène Gaudy

Music: Gaëtan Gromer, Clara Olivares, Antoine Spindler

Sound recording: Marc Namblard

With the participation of the Adastra Quartet

Actors : Anne-France Delarchand, Mathilde Melero, Milan Morotti, Jack Reinhardt, Audrey Vinel

Production: Les Ensembles 2.2

Coproduction: Festival Musica

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