Citadelle of Marseille

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!

 

Know more

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

sylvIA, Elsau

2025-09-17T14:58:18+01:00

sylvIA

ECOLOGY . LANGUAGE . TREES

Details

Free

From 8 years 

Duration : 30 – 40 min


Partner

La Plume de Paon

Starting point

Parc Nicolas Poussin

Elsau, Strasbourg

“You won’t believe me but trees can talk

Yeah, yeah… They speak. 

Even if you can’t hear them.

 

In this interactive soundfiction, a revolutionary app is able to catch and translate the language of trees thanks to an advanced A.I. But the A.I can’t feel, see or taste. She needs a living being capable of feeling what she cannot perceive. She need you!

Each choice you’ll make will influence the story and open new exploration paths.

Ready to listen to the tress? To unravel their mysteries?

To see the world differently…. for ever?

 

Available from April at the Parc Nicolas Poussin, in Elsau, Strasbourg. Discover a unique interactive expérience on GOH.

Know more

Gaëtan Gromer

Sound composer, artist and producer Gaëtan Gromer, born in 1978, lives and works in Strasbourg. Artistic director of Ensembles 2.2 (a sound creation studio particularly active in the public space) and member of the executive committee and board of directors of HACNUM (national network for hybrid arts and digital cultures), he regularly brings his work into conversation with other disciplines. He 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 is the winner of the Imagina Atlantica 2012 European Digital Arts Prize, and his records [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 for 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 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 and the Centre National du Livre – CNL

Credits

Text and realisation: Gaëtan Gromer

Music:  Antoine Spindler

Voices: Marie Seux, Gaëtan Gromer and children from the elementary school Leonard de Vinci (Elsau)

Application: GOH

Executive producer: Les Ensembles 2.2

Partners: La Plume de Paon

Luxembourg

2025-09-17T14:47:03+01:00

Empty Nest

Picture: ©Naohiro Ninomiya

Nostalgia . Exile . Social History

Details

Free

From 10 years old

Duration: 1 hour


Place

Bonnevoie district, Luxembourg
Starting point : entrance to the Rotondes forecourt

Organiser

Les Rotondes

For a better experience, download the GOH app on your smartphone beforehand and bring your own headphones or earphones
“Driven by this desire to return to my roots, I have strangely always felt an emptiness, an absence, that of the sea and the horizon, at once full of life and mystery.
On this day, in your company, dear mother, and yours, dear listener, I revisit the history of this island that is Bonnevoie, through its buried but still palpable memories.”
Fabio Godinho
 
This podcast-like creation offers a unique interactive experience, placing you directly in the places that inspired the story, thanks to geolocation.

Empty Nest invites you to wander through the backstreets of the Bonnevoie district, listening to the story of a mother and son, she who was born elsewhere, he who grew up here. A singular yet universal story, as it carries with it the stories and testimonies collected from local residents. A story that seems simple, almost commonplace, yet reveals the complexities of exile and the hopes that guide every step towards the unknown.

Like a child going through the stages of life, you are invited to walk through the streets, between happiness and disillusionment, alongside those who have undertaken a journey towards a new land of welcome. Those who, one day, have left the nest to make way for the unknown, for the possibility of new beginnings. Empty Nest evokes the ambivalent feeling of emptiness that is then created, filled with memories and promises, tinged with both nostalgia and satisfaction, where each memory resonates like the distant song of a lullaby.

Available to listen to on your smartphone, from September 28, 2024, by downloading the GOH app and letting it guide you!

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Actor, director and author, Fabio Godinho has developed numerous activities around the body and writing. He moved to Paris in 2006, studied theater and, in parallel with his stage practice, developed a research project at the Sorbonne Nouvelle in Theatrical Studies (with Frédéric Maurin as research director) on play and non-play in Flemish theater. He collaborates as a performer in several art films conceived by his brother and artist Marco Godinho, in 2017 with Notes sur cette terre qui respire le feu and with Written by Water. In film, he works on several occasions for Hadrien Besse, and also with Luc Jabon and Lara Mack. In 2021 he is working with Christophe Wagner on the Netflix series Capitani, in which he appears in season 2, and as Lucian in Ganael Dumreicher’s short film Lucian.

Composer, sound artist and director Gaëtan Gromer, born in 1978, lives and works in Strasbourg. He is also artistic director of Les Ensembles 2.2 and a member of the executive committee and board of directors of HACNUM (national network for hybrid arts and digital cultures). 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…

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 Taieb etc.).

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

Crédits

Text: Fabio Godinho
 
Realisation: Gaëtan Gromer
 
Music and composition: Gaëtan Gromer and Antoine Spindler
 
Voice: Fabio Godinho
 
Sound recordings: Antoine Spindler
 
Interviews: Lynn Pook
 
Production: Les Ensembles 2.2
 
Partner: Rotondes
 
Acknowledgments: Catherine, Amaya Achutegui, Natalia Correia, Cathaline Franck, Lynn Franck, Maria Grazia Galati, Rudina Gruda, Neil Hartfield, Liuisa Marasanu, Celeste Monteiro, Luca Parisi, Christine Pelletier, Gundula Piersanti, Jean-Pierre Piersanti, Paul Plier, Yolanta Rezka, Marianne Schummer, Sven Soares, Tiago Teixeira, Gudrun Ziegler

European district, Strasbourg

2025-09-17T14:47:25+01:00

Aux marches du palais (On the palace steps)

Photo: ©Elisa Hahn

Tale . Myth . Europe

 

Details

Price: Free

Age: 10+

Duration: 45min – 1h


Partners

Lieu d’Europe and the Compagnie Rebonds d’histoires

Starting point

Lieu d’Europe
European District, Strasbourg
“Perhaps by placing this statue here, Greece wished to strengthen its influence in Europe.

Still, it’s a risky gamble to put the gods at your service. Poseidon in particular. Poseidon, a complex, multi-faceted god.

Poseidon is well known for his power over the waves and the underwater world, but he is also known as “the shaker of the ground”.

Matthieu Epp

This soundfiction takes place around the European district.

European buildings were built to enable countries and their inhabitants to meet, debate, make laws, discuss, celebrate and fight for ideas.

But that’s not all. When people move, their stories travel with them. So when Europe was made here, in Strasbourg, the stories, tales and mythologies of all Europe came too. And with the stories came all the characters and creatures that populate them.

The gods. The monsters. The elves. The fairies. A whole parallel world has settled here in Strasbourg, in this district.
In a good parallel world, it’s almost invisible, even if some of these characters like to be embodied in statues or trees. That’s what we’re going to find out during this soundfiction. So keep your eyes and ears open, and let us help you uncover the traces of this other world

A sound fiction available from May 05, 2024 on the dedicated app – GOH

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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.).

Annukka Nyyssönen was born in Finland to a Finnish father and an Alsatian mother. Developing a particular interest in stories, tales and myths, she has made it her profession, with a particular attraction to the repertoire of marvelous tales and myths. She performs on stage, often in media libraries, festivals and schools. For ten years or so, she attended the Ecole Noire sessions with Myriam Pellicane, a training course in the arts of the spoken word that delves into the sources of oral tradition. She was also part of the SISTAS adventure, which brought together some twenty female storytellers on the island of Oléron to explore the specificity of women’s art. Alongside her performances, she leads talks and cultural action projects, and is a keen participant in collective experiments and local projects, particularly with the Front de l’Est collective.

Matthieu Epp works as a professional storyteller, and has done so for some fifteen years. After studies in computer science and a career in popular education, he forged his tools through encounters and disciplines (music, dance, object theater, improvisation). He presents his shows throughout the French-speaking world (France, Belgium, Quebec…) in theaters, storytelling festivals, media libraries, retirement homes and schools. His repertoire ranges from mythology to science fiction, with a fondness for traditional tales and life stories. No two shows are alike. For each project, he’s keen to develop a form that will serve the issues as closely as possible. For example, he offers storytelling tours at home with acoustic instruments, as well as more spectacular forms with images and electronic music.

After studying classical piano as a child, Fabrice Kieffer entered the Strasbourg Conservatoire and discovered improvisation, percussion, jazz and traditional music. He developed a passion for the accordion, which he studied with the musicians of the Bal’us’trad collective. He is involved in all kinds of artistic projects: jazz, improvised music, traditional music with “en passant par la Montagne”, street shows, festive fanfare, theater music with the Baraban company. His identity is marked by musical eclecticism, curiosity and a permanent polyinstrumentism.

La Ville de Strasbourg , la Région Grand Est, le FEDER, la Collectivité européenne d’Alsace et la DRAC Grand-Est.

Credits

Text and voices: Matthieu Epp and Annukka Nyyssönen

Realisation: Gaëtan Gromer

Music:  Antoine Spindler

Hurdy-gurdy and accordion: Fabrice Kieffer

Sound recordings, mix: Antoine Spindler 

Application: GOH

Executive producer: Les Ensembles 2.2

Partners: Rebonds d’histoires and Lieu d’Europe

Reims

2025-09-17T14:47:42+01:00

Une conversation

Picture: ©Matëo Granger

Fiction . Time . Strange

 

Details

Price : Free

Age : 10+

Duration : 45min/1h

Partner

Saint-Ex, Culture Numérique

Place

City center of Reims
Starting point : in front of Saint-Ex

“As long as we’re here, you have to see the cathedral. And I’d like to see the state it’s in. It was terrible what I saw. I can hardly believe it. Early this afternoon, the fire engulfed the scaffolding that encircled the full height of the north tower façade.
We were in the process of restoring it. There’s always work going on at the cathedral…”

Amélie Lucas-Gary

Une conversation is a geolocated soundwalk that invites you to follow two women as they wander around the city of Reims.

Hélène and Lucie meet up after a long time apart. Hélène, who has lived in Reims all her life, has lost an object, and to find it she invites her friend to retrace the route they took the day before. Lucie discovers the city through Hélène’s memories.

They walk through the streets, and as they go, in between lines, we wonder: what has she really lost? What are they looking for? Who is Hélène? Elements escape logic and chronology, and little by little, in the dialogue, the past comes up. From one street to the next, through the different buildings and eras, the discussion operates by telescoping and breaking up: the strict framework of the present explodes.

Through past events and their present echoes, through the bodies of Hélène and Lucie and their presence in the city, the condition of women and their contradictions are also revealed.

A project under development with the support of Saint-Ex, Culture Numérique.

Sound fiction available in 2024 on the dedicated application – GOH

Know more

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)…

Amélie Lucas-Gary was born in Arcachon in 1982 and lives in Paris. After studying History and Cinema at the Sorbonne, Amélie Lucas-Gary graduated from the National School of Photography in Arles in 2009. Since then, her practice has evolved, and she has published three novels: Grotte (2014), published by Christophe Lucquin Éditeur, Vierge (2017) and Hic (2020), published by Éditions du Seuil. The latter was written during a writing residency in New Zealand. All Amélie Lucas-Gary’s novels deal with the question of creation: that of the universe in Hic, the author’s genesis in Vierge, the beginnings of art history in Grotte. She regularly works with artists on catalogs, exhibitions and performances. Today, she uses photography, sculpture and writing in turn or in conjunction, proposing a form that resonates with the artist’s work and shifts the way we look at the works. In this way, her literary work is strongly influenced by her preoccupations with the plastic arts, which she uses to serve her appetite for romance and adventure.

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.).

Ville de Strasbourg, Région Grand Est, FEDER, Collectivité européenne d’Alsace and DRAC Grand-Est.

Credits

Text: Amélie Lucas-Gary

Realisation: Gaëtan Gromer

Music: Gaëtan Gromer, Antoine Spindler

Voices: Pauline Leurent et Marie Seux

Sound recordings: Antoine Spindler 

Application: GOH

Executive producer: Les Ensembles 2.2

Co-production:  Saint-Ex, Culture Numérique

History & heritage consultant: Véronique Palot-Maillart

Acknowledgement: Eva Chanoir

Citadelle, Marseille

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,

 

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

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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), 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

Belfort

2025-09-17T14:48:13+01:00

Ouwa

Picture: ©Matëo Granger

Poetry . Utopia . Interspecies

Details

Free

Age: 12 +

Duration 45min/1h


Partner

Espace Multimédia Gantner

Place

Etang des Forges (forges pond)
Belfort

“Plants sing of affects – foremost among them tenderness and attachment – and emotions – among which, in Ouwa territory, joy and melancholy predominate.”

luvan

Ouwa is a geolocated soundwalk around the Forges pond, offering an immersive experience that makes living things audible.

During this fictional journey, you are projected into the distant future, where the Forges pond is now part of Ouwa territory. Author luvan invites you to an encounter with the world of plants. A utopia where strange sensory mutations enable a few individuals, known as “flora singers”, to hear, see and smell plants. 

Immerse yourself in a world where the boundaries between humans and plants become blurred. Follow this poetic trail, let yourself be guided and explore a world where nature speaks in mysterious languages. 

Welcome to Ouwa territory, where every step is an encounter with the unexpected.

Inspired by the therolinguistics of American science fiction author Ursula Le Guin, the Ouwa soundwalk offers an immersion in a “What if we could hear the rest of the world”.

A project in development with the help of the Espace multimédia Gantner.

Soundwalk available in 2024 on the dedicated application – GOH

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luvan is an author. Her work focuses on the creation of complex imaginary places, both utopian and dystopian, enabling her to comment on and anticipate current events. For her, fiction is a tool for social and political reflection. Passionate about sound and traditional oral materials, she also writes plays, performs and creates radio programs. She is an active member of the Zanzibar science fiction writers’ collective, alongside Sabrina Calvo, Alain Damasio, Catherine Dufour and Léo Henry, among others. Trained as a historian, luvan (real name Marie-Aude Matignon) lived in Africa, the Pacific, France, China, Scandinavia and Belgium before settling in Germany.

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 Ville de Strasbourg, Région Grand Est, ERDF, Collectivité européenne d’Alsace and DRAC Grand-Est.

Credits: 

Text: luvan

Production: Gaëtan Gromer

Music: Gaëtan Gromer, Antoine Spindler

Voices: Sébastien Bizzotto, Florine Chevrolet, Regis Kante, Pauline Leurent

Sound recordings, mix: Antoine Spindler 

Application : GOH

Executive producer: Les Ensembles 2.2

Partner: Espace multimédia Gantner

Wacken, Strasbourg

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

INFOS SUR ÉCOUTE

2023-11-06T16:55:38+01:00

INFOS 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

2023-11-06T16:45:07+01:00

JAFTA

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

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