Recording residency with a view to producing an album.
Bodies Can is a sound and digital ecosystem made up of an acoustic cymbal orchestra and a randomly behaving audience.
Five "cymbal-drum" sound modules are set in resonance by motorized bows, themselves driven by a digital interface that analyzes body movements.
Within this acoustic-digital eco-system, all individuals feed off each other, learn to cohabit a space and co-create countless links and interferences.
Bodies Can attempts to observe what might be a just and reasoned presence within a given ecosystem and, by extension, to question the possibility of a balance between humans and their environments.
This meditative journey is also an invitation to reflect on notions of borders, on the planning of spaces as open zones or inaccessible territories, and on the role of new technologies in controlling territories and our lives.
Production
Unicode
Coproduction
Théâtre d'Orléans / Scène nationale ; Césaré CNCM (Reims) ; Collectif Coax ; Oxal'art
With support from
la Drac Centre-Val de Loire, Fonds de soutien exceptionnel aux artistes auteurs Région Centre Val de Loire and Antre Peaux (Bourges)
Hosted residencies
Confort Moderne (Poitiers) and L'Astrolabe (Orléans)
Bodies Can is a winner of the Ecological Transition and Resilience call for projects - Centre Val de Loire Region.
Julien Chamla
With several hundred concerts in experimental music, contemporary jazz, improvised music and alternative rock throughout Europe, China, Japan, Turkey, Brazil... Julien Chamla has developed a unique vocabulary based on tension, roughness and repetition, exploring the nooks and crannies of the sound spectrum. With a view to further expanding the possibilities of his instrument, he designed an electric bass harp, then a motorized bass, which he integrated into his percussion set. Keen to unlearn and free himself from musical conventions, his work today is mainly linked to primitive and ritual music, focusing on trance and the relationship with the body. Among other multidisciplinary activities (dance, contemporary circus), he is involved in the Tripes, Bodies Can, Ritual Extra, El Memorioso, Helved Rüm and Aquaserge projects.
Alessandro Vuillermin
Alessandro Vuillermin comes from a theatrical background (co-founder and director of Compagnie Petite Nature: Le temps du monde fini, Les molécules désaccordées). He creates digital performances and installations(La théorie du nuage at Nuit Blanche de Paris, Fumée at Nuit Blanche de Charleville Mezières, Flamme & PingPong at Xul d'Orléans, TotemVidéo404 at Musée de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines...). At the same time, he creates lighting and/or video for companies, music groups and museums (Ah Anabelle, Faire un feu, Tricollectif, Homme Machine, Volga, Musée de Fresnes...). Alessandro works exclusively with free software and, whenever possible, with free hardware.
Léo Maurel
Léo Maurel is a luthier and inventor. He has lived and worked in Dangolsheim near Strasbourg since 2010. He invents, builds and markets new instruments, played by many musicians experimenting with continuous sound and electronic music heritage, such as Erik M, Yann Gourdon, Tarek Atoui, Stephen O'Malley, Oiseau Tempête, Ensemble Recherche, Hanatsu Miroir, etc... His main inventions are: the Hurgy Toy, a mini motorized toy hurdy-gurdy (200 units), the Boite à Bourdons, a motorized hurdy-gurdy with mobile capodastrums (32 units), the Archet Motorisé, a bow that exports the hurdy-gurdy's infinite bow principle to other instruments (15 units), the Organous, a modular, transportable, computer-controlled octopus organ (1 unit and 5 derivatives).
Élise Simonet
Élise Simonet lives in Paris and works alongside many artists in the performing arts, as a dramaturge and artistic collaborator (Thibaud Croisy, Anne-Sophie Turion and Éric Minh Cuong, Halory Goerger, Emilie Rousset, Dominique Gilliot and Valérie Mréjen, the Aquaserge group, Anouck Hilbey, Antoine Cegarra, Maya Boquet, Marie Losier). A member of the Encyclopédie de la parole group since 2013, she develops her research on orality. She is Joris Lacoste's artistic collaborator on the Choral Suites cycle, and co-signs multiple international versions of Jukebox (Gennevilliers, St Petersburg, Rome, Conakry, Geneva, Ouagadougou, Thessalonica). As a dramaturge, she was invited to the Cliniques Dramaturgiques by Jessie Mill at the FTA (Montreal), to 1:1 by Sarah Israel at the PAF (Berlin), then co-organized the Cliniques Dramaturgiques at the Short Theater Festival (Rome) with Riccardo Fazi and Jessie Mill. Since 2021, she has broadened her activities to include transmission: she leads a dramaturgy seminar at La Bellone (Brussels), and works with students in the Master's program in scenography at La Cambre (Brussels).
Julien Chamla
design, composition
Alessandro Vuillermin
digital device design
Léo Maurel
motorized bow design
Élise Simonet
dramaturgy