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Schifflange – Kayl

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2025-09-17T14:51:31+01:00

Ruby

Illustration: ©Valérie Etterlen

SCIENCE-FICTION . BIOGRAPHY . RADIO ASTRONOMY

 

Details

Price : Free

10+ years old

Duration: 60 / 90 min

Organizer

Esch2022

Location

Réserve naturelle de Schifflange
Luxembourg

Start : Jean Jacoby stadium car park

“Look into the distance. You see the inexpressive mass of the Belval Springboard. Its articulated tentacles erect vertically, like the spikes of a sea urchin foraging the sky, the vertebrae of a brachiosaurus. The Springboard. Our pride in glass and steel.”
luvan

Ruby is the brainchild of author Luvan and composer Charo Calvo.

The story is directly inspired by the places: the red earth similar to the plateaus of Australia, the thousand-year-old plants, the view of Belval, the remains of mining operations… and takes us to discover the exceptional destiny of Ruby Payne-Scott, an Australian radio astronomer with a passion for botany, who would have been perfectly at home in this setting.

The text, punctuated by scientific references, leaves plenty of room for science fiction elements, inspired by the striking, ‘extra-human’ view of Belval.

Ruby was created as part of the In the field project, for Esch2022, European Capital of Culture.

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A land of extremes, both an ancient fossil quarry and a place of renewal, of lichens, mosses and orchids. A place of extraction and exploitation, but also of rebirth. Scientific references are present throughout the text. It also includes biological and naturalistic principles.

All these themes are dealt with in parallel with the theme of borders. These are numerous: between the earth and the cosmos, between the past and the future, between the surface and what lies beneath. We also explore the frontier of reality: what if there was another Earth? What if the Schifflange Nature Reserve was where two dimensions intersect?

Luvan is an author. Her work focuses on the development of complex imaginary places, both utopian and dystopian, allowing 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 makes radio productions. She is an active member of the science fiction writers’ collective Zanzibar alongside, among others, Sabrina Calvo, Alain Damasio, Catherine Dufour and Léo Henry. A historian by training, luvan (real name Marie-Aude Matignon) lived in Africa, the Pacific, France, China, Scandinavia and Belgium before moving to Germany.

Electroacoustic composer, sound engineer and teacher, Charo Calvo is originally from Spain and currently lives in Brussels. After performing as a dancer with the Belgian company Ultima Vez, she studied electroacoustic composition at the Brussels Conservatory. Her work is developed through different media, and is broadcasted at international events. She has received several awards, including the Marulic Prize 2018 Croatia and the Grand Prix Nova Bucharest 2019. She was selected to represent Belgium at the ISCM 2020 World with her work ‘The Grass’ and is the winner of the Phonurgia Nova 2021 Prize with ‘Vagues de Chaleur’ (‘Heat Waves’).

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: luvan

Music: Charo Calvo

Sound recording: Marc Namblard

Illustration: Valérie Etterlen

Voices: Florine Chevrolet, Nelly Henrion, Agnès Sternjakob, Matëo Granger (French version), Florine Chevrolet, Nelly Henrion, Julia Whitham (English version)

Voice Studio: Innervision

Artistic Director: Gaëtan Gromer

Production: Les Ensembles 2.2

b: Laura Daco of the Musée National d’Histoire Naturelle de Luxembourg, Laure Caregari of the Schungfabrik, Marieke Jarvis of MUAR-Musee vun der Aarbecht Luxembourg

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.

Thionville

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2025-09-17T14:52:06+01:00

Khôra

Illustration ©Valérie Etterlen

SCIENCE-FICTION . SOLARPUNK . EXPLORATION

Details:

Price : Free

10+ years old

Duration: 60 – 90 min

Organizer :

Esch2022

Location :

Thionville, Moselle

France

Start : Thionville city center

“In the distant future, human and non-human animals share the land. They communicate. You move differently. You have a different sense of space.”
luvan

Equipped with new senses and affects, you explore the transformed space that Thionville will become. The stories that emerge are sometimes peaceful and beautiful, and sometimes terrible. Khôra offers a narrative, polyphonic and poetic experience of weird fiction, which is naturalistic. With several vocal and musical layers, the material is different depending on when you embark on it. Khôra means ‘territory’ in Greek. For Plato, the Khôra is space in the making, unstable and moving. It lies between being and non-being. A formless substance containing all possibilities.

As part of the ‘hIAtus’ (Human Intelligence Artificial Earth Utopia Science) exhibition organised by the Puzzle in Thionville. Created for Esch2022, European Capital of Culture, Khôra is the pilot episode of the digital audio literary saga In the field, the other episodes of which will be available from February 2022.

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Luvan is an author. Her work focuses on the development of complex imaginary places, both utopian and dystopian, allowing 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 makes radio productions. She is an active member of the science fiction writers’ collective Zanzibar alongside, among others, Sabrina Calvo, Alain Damasio, Catherine Dufour and Léo Henry. A historian by training, luvan (real name Marie-Aude Matignon) lived in Africa, the Pacific, France, China, Scandinavia and Belgium before moving to Germany.

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.

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.

With the support of : La Drac Grand Est, La Région Grand Est, le Puzzle (Thionville) and Esch 2022, European Capital of Culture.

Credits: 

Texts : luvan

Music : Gaëtan Gromer, Antoine Spindler

Illustration : Valérie Etterlen

Voices: Florine Chevrolet, Pauline Leurent, Jack Reinhardt & Régis Kante

Voice studio: Innervision (Sound recording: Gwénaël Graff; monitoring: Julien Wagner)

Production: Doriane Thiéry (Les Ensembles 2.2, Strasbourg)

Artistic director: Gaëtan Gromer (Les Ensembles 2.2, Strasbourg)

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.

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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

Centre ville, Strasbourg

2025-08-06T13:54:28+01:00

Chasseurs de sons

 

A fun trail, in the form of a sound treasure hunt and riddles, to discover the city’s auditory treasures.

7+ years old

Credits

Artistic Direction : Gaëtan Gromer, Antoine Spindler

Scenario : Pierre-Guy Auger

Music : Olivier Touratier, Ludwig van Beethoven

Recording : Marin Lambert

Voice : Marie Amadio

Production : Les Ensembles 2.2

Centre-ville, Strasbourg

2025-08-06T13:54:19+01:00

PAUSE Beethoven

 

Created on the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth, this trail highlights well-known and lesser-known places in Strasbourg where it is pleasant to linger and take a break. 

 

For each of the locations, a work by Beethoven that is particularly suited to the spot can be listened to. A discovery of the Beethoven of slow movements, of chamber music, the Beethoven of the intimate

Artistic directors: Gaëtan Gromer et Antoine Spindler
Music : Ludwig van Beethoven

As part of the show “PAUSE”

Commissioned by the City and Eurometropolis of Strasbourg

Schiltigheim

2025-08-06T13:56:03+01:00

Signaux

 

A crackling sound, similar to that of a Geiger counter, accompanies the stroll through the city. It leads us to the Halles du Scilt, where it then stops, replaced by compositions by the artist.

Artistic director: Gaëtan Gromer

As part of the exhibition “Signals: sound and data”.

With the support of Halles du Scilt and the City of Schiltigheim

Cathédrale de Strasbourg

2025-08-06T13:56:08+01:00

Clair de lune

Unusual and poetic light and sound show in Strasbourg Cathedral after the last performance of the 2020 Summer Show.

New sound creations by Gaëtan Gromer, Antoine Spindler and Olivier Touratier, in perfect synchronisation with the lights, accompany visitors on a visual and sound contemplation of the cathedral.

Music : Ludwig van Beethoven, Gaëtan Gromer, Antoine Spindler, Olivier Touratier

Light : Daniel Knipper

As part of the monumental show “PAUSE

Commissioned by the City and Eurometropolis of Strasbourg

Presqu’île Malraux, Strasbourg

2025-08-06T13:56:14+01:00

EC(H)O Malraux

POETRY .

7+ years old

Duration : 30 – 45 min

© Agence CAPAC

‘We know the bridge, we know the old crane, we know the white liner of glass and brick. But in the water you can only make out the autumn and the pigmented scattering of leaves as they wander. A dream drifts in a sky of water. ”

During the months of November and December 2019, we invited inhabitants, companies and institutions present on the André Malraux Peninsula to participate in a process of artistic meetings and workshops, to try to understand the notion of artistic approach. The participants were invited to shift their gaze to these everyday places and proposed a series of photographs which were then submitted to the poets. The texts resulting from this process, read and set to music, are geolocated at the precise shooting locations and can be listened to thanks to the GOH mobile app.

Project carried out thanks to the involvement of ACCRO, the Shadok, the OKKO hotel, the SERS, the CNFPT-INET, the Malraux media library, the Neudorf Deux-Rives territory management and the AREM residents’ association.

Details

Price : Free

Location : Presqu’île André Malraux, Strasbourg

Credits

Poems: Claudine Bohi, Germain Roesz

Music: Gaëtan Gromer

As part of the Tango&Scan program

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The result of a collaborative work between Les Ensembles 2.2, several structures in the André Malraux peninsula and local residents, EC(H)O is a clever blend of sound compositions and contemporary poetry. While they wander, the listener advances towards what is hidden but yet present, a world created and placed there. The music of Gaëtan Gromer as well as the poetry of Claudine Bohi and Germain Roesz offer a different perspective of an everyday place.

It is simply, as Claudine Bohi beautifully wrote in Entre les mots, a matter of ‘widening the narrow’.

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.

Claudine Bohi is an assistant lecturer of arts and a psychoanalyst who taught at the Lycée Voltaire (Paris) and divides her time between Paris, Strasbourg and Narbonne. Her poetic work, according to Claude Ber, questions the transition between flesh and word, anxiety and questioning. She appears in the anthologies L’érotisme dans la poésie féminine, by Pierre Béarn (Pauvert, 1993) and L’anthologie de la poésie érotique, by Pierre Perret (Nil, 1995), as well as in several others.

Claudine Bohi received the Prix Paul-Verlaine in 1998 for the collection Atalante, ta course (Éditions La Bartavelle) 1, and the Prix Mallarmé 2019 for Naître, c’est longtemps (Éditions La Tête à l’envers, 2018).

Germain Rœsz is a painter and poet born in Colmar in 1949, who lives and works in Paris and Strasbourg. He carries out work in visual arts, poetry and theoretical research. Nourished by his research and his poetic quest, his painting traces a territory between rigour and chaos, between the history of painting and the contemporary approach. He tries, in a spirit of coherence, to grasp – in painting and in poetry – a space which is its own matrix, which opens the world. In the strictly poetic field, he has been performing poetry since 1994: poetry/action readings with contemporary musicians (Pierre Seidler, Christophe Rieger, Gaëtan Gromer), with L’épongistes (Robic/Rœsz) or solo.

Supported by the Grand-Est Region as part of the Digital Creation call for expressions of interest.

Metz

2025-09-17T14:53:50+01:00

EC(H)O Bliiida

 

POETRY .

7+ years old

Duration : 30 – 45 mins

Combining sound compositions and contemporary poetry, this trail invites the listener to explore BLIIIDA, a third place located in the heart of Metz.

In parallel with the international digital arts festival Constellations.

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This sound and poetry trail is composed of 6 texts, created by the poet Alain Helissen and set to music by Gaëtan Gromer. It invites you to discover or rediscover BLIIIDA, a third place located in the heart of Metz. Each of the 6 texts and its music were inspired by the place and the exchanges with the users. They are designed specifically to be heard in a defined area of BLIIIDA. The trail is available on the GOH smartphone app, which uses geolocation technology.

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.

Alain Helissen was born in 1954 and lives in Sarrebourg, Moselle. He co-founded the artistic and literary journal, FAIX (1979/1982) before joining the editorial board of the SAPRIPHAGE journal (which was discontinued in 2000). He has collaborated with around fifty journals and published around a dozen works. He is also a columnist for various literary periodicals (Le Mensuel littéraire et poétique (Brussels), La Polygraphe, Pris de Peur, Cahiers CCP (Marseille), Diérèse, La Grappe, Ici & Là, etc.) Since the beginning of 2000, he has directed the Vents Contraires poetry collection at Editions VOIX. He has written songs for the group ‘Village Popol’ with whom he has performed on stage. He regularly participates in Mail Art exhibitions.

Details

Price : free

Location : Bliiida, Metz

Credits

Texts : Alain Helissen.

Music : Gaëtan Gromer

In partnership with the third place Bliiida.

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