"Gong! gang gun! Sound freezes the sun! Punky pork and elephants cry in a pink bag." - Elephant & Sheep
Elephant! You shake your sheep is an unclassifiable object, a playground combining bagpipes and electronic instruments with original lighting design by Rima Ben Brahim. Between experimental transhumance and sonic safari, artist-composer Annabelle Playe and young Scottish musician Harry Gorski-Brown shake up stylistic codes. In the course of their noisily facetious adventures, they conjure up funny and bizarre imaginary worlds, imbued with strangeness and mirage, at the heart of an elephantine and chimerical sonic and visual immersion.
Annabelle Playe and Harry Gorski-Brown are Diaphonique 2022 prizewinners.
NUMEN is an electroacoustic preamble to Elephant! You shake your sheep.
The piece invites the audience to pass through the sensitive experience of being gripped by the irruption of the sacred.
Composed in three parts, it develops an immersive universe: drones, masses of sound, contrasting nuances based on sounds derived from electronic lutherie.
Elephant! You shake your sheep
Production
CRYPTIC - Sonica Festival Glasgow (UK) / AnA Compagnie
Coproduction
GMEM (Marseille)
Partnerships
Un singe en Hiver (Dijon) | Stéréolux (Nantes) | L'Hexagone (Grenoble)
With financial support from
Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelles Occitanie, Sacem, Spedidam, MMC - Maison de la Musique Contemporaine
Supported by
Diaphonique, a Franco-British fund for contemporary music, in partnership with SACEM, Friends of the French Institute Trust, British Council, Institut français, Institut français du Royaume-Uni, Centre National de la Musique, Creative L'Écosse and Fondation Salabert.
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NUMEN
Annabelle Playe
electroacoustic
Commissioned by the GRM for the 2020 Musica Festival in Strasbourg.
The piece will be performed on the GRM acousmonium during the SONIC TEMPLE vol.2 evening, Thursday September 24, 2020 at 9:00 pm at Église Saint-Paul.
Friche la Belle de Mai (Petit Plateau)
41 Jobin Street13003
Marseille
DURATION
approx. 1h00
RATES MODULATION 1
Full: 8€
Reduced: 6€*
*Young people aged 12-25, students, jobseekers, people on minimum social benefits, intermittent workers, seniors aged 65 and over - with proof of age.
RATES FOR THE MODULATIONS SEASON
Modulations loyalty card €40*
Limited number of seats
*Gives access to all Modulations in the season 24-25
ADVISED AGE
From 12 years
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
Latecomers will not be admitted to the theater, as some shows do not tolerate late entries - at the request of the artistic teams.
TICKETS FROM SEPT. 2. 2024
Online: gmem-cncm.mapado.com
By e-mail: billetterie@gmem.org
On site: on the day of the performance, half an hour before the show, subject to availability.
WITHIN THE MODULATIONS
What are the Modulations?
Concerts, performances, regular events...
In other words, a season organized by GMEM.
1st semester dates:
17/09/24 - 15/10 - 19/11 - 8/12 - 17/12
2nd semester dates:
21/01/25- 18/02 - 18/03 - 23/03 - 15/04 - 11/05
Annabelle Playe
composition, live electronics
Harry Gorski-Brown
composition, bagpipes, live electronics
Rima Ben Brahim
lights
PROGRAM
NUMEN - Annabelle Playe, electroacoustics - 17 min.
Elephant! You shake your sheep - 40 min.