Research residency.
Espaces blancs is a form of sensitive cartography, halfway between a visual installation and a concert, a form of musical theater designed to give voice to the intimate relationship we have with the landscape we cross and the variations that affect it. The aim is to show how the landscape changes, passes through and disappears, whether visibly or in memory.
The dramaturgy is based on a collection of audio testimonies used as a basis for textual writing and composition. The form will be shaped by questions of matter and rhythm: the slow dislocation of a place, its abrupt change, the relationship between urban and wild space... The research and crafting of sound, at the heart of the project, require close collaboration between the composer and the instrumentalists. The emerging form will include improvised parts.
The scenography unfolds in the form of large frames supporting an aggregate of cards, papers and surfaces, and the various sound sources on stage. These frames also reveal the space in which they are deployed, alongside the performers, revealing "white spaces".
Delegated production
La Belle Orange
Co-production
GMEM - Centre national de création musicale; Athénor Scène Nomade - CNCM; Abbaye de Royaumont
Support
Les Moulins de Paillard ; la Sacem
Project support
DRAC Centre - Val de Loire
Commande d'État
for assistance in writing an original musical work (PACA region)
Mathilde Barthélémy
Soprano and artist committed to creation, Mathilde Barthélémy works closely with composers and devotes herself to developing multidisciplinary forms. After studying violin, literature and drama, she pursued her studies in voice with Noémi Rime, Valérie Philippin and Donatienne Michel-Dansac.
She performs in ensembles for contemporary repertoire and creation (IRCAM, EIC, Ensemble Atmusica, Ensemble Offrandes, Sillages), or in choirs (Musicatreize, Chœur de Radio France), at festivals dedicated to musical creation (Musica, Electrocution, Instants Fertiles, Manifeste, Arles, Chigiana, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino....).
She is involved in live performance, in performative forms which she has conceived (Au seuil on funerary rituals), in in situ forms for museums, for puppetry (Le Printemps du Machiniste, Cie Méandres), or musical theater (Antipodes with double bassist Charlotte Testu).
Claudia Jane Scroccaro
composition
Mathilde Barthélémy
design and voice
Timothée Quost
trumpet
Xavière Fertin
clarinets
Louis Siracusa-Schneider
double bass
Brice Kartmann
sound engineer
Max Bruckert
computer music producer
Nina Bonardi
set design and construction
Ionah Mélin
construction