Erri De Luca
Writer

Born Henry De Luca in Naples in 1950, Erri De Luca is an Italian writer, poet and translator. Of bourgeois origin, he was destined for a career as a diplomat. He refused to accept it, broke with his family and, in 1968, embraced the workers' revolt movement. A man of convictions, he became involved in his country's political life as soon as he finished secondary school, joining the far-left "Lotta continua" movement, of which he was an active member from 1969 to 1980. With no real training, he worked as an unskilled laborer in various towns and countries, before deciding to embark on humanitarian missions in Africa and Bosnia. It was at this point that he discovered the Bible, developed a passion for the Old Testament, and decided to learn Hebrew to better appreciate its content. Having also studied Yiddish, he translated texts by Jewish poets written in this endangered language, so that they could pass into posterity. His first novel, "Non ora, non qui", appeared in Italy in 1989, and was published in France first by Verdier under the title "Une fois, un jour", then by Rivages in 1994 under a title more faithful to the original: "Pas ici, pas maintenant". Subsequent books include "Acide, arc-en-ciel" (1994), which won the Prix France Culture, and "Montedidio" (2002), which won the Prix Fémina étranger. Other notable works include "Le jour avant le bonheur" (2010), in which he takes up all the themes that are dear to him (childhood and its difficult apprenticeships, love, exile, and his city of Naples), and "Le poids du papillon" (2011), inspired by his love of the mountains. His essays are inspired by his daily readings of the Bible, such as "Un nuage comme tapis" (1994), "Noyau d'olive" (2004), "Comme une langue au palais" (2006) and "Au nom de la mère" (2009).
He also writes articles for leading Italian newspapers, including La Repubblica and il Corriere della Sera.


XavierCharles
Clarinetist, composer, improviser

A clarinetist and free electron, he is a figure to be reckoned with on the new European music scene. An irreproachable virtuoso, he invents his own unique language and embraces the most adventurous music. He practices mainly improvisation, and collaborates with numerous musicians in France and abroad. He has developed instrumental techniques inspired by materials, sounds of everyday life and contemporary musical languages. His sound research has also led him to develop a system of vibrating loudspeakers. His experiments have taken him to the frontiers of improvised music, noisy rock, electroacoustics, jazz and traditional music. His work as an improviser brings into play the question of listening, how to reinvent it and fertilize the listener's tools. His work as a composer experiments with temporality and how to free oneself from it.  

Laëtitia Pitz
Director, actress

Laëtitia Pitz, director, actress and founder of the Roland furieux company, has developed her stage work by paying particular attention to the resources of the world of sound. The interweaving of literature and musical creation is now the mainstay of her approach, which places listening at the heart of her projects. Her most recent creations include L'Au-delà by Didier-Georges Gabily, Sauve qui peut (la révolution) after Thierry Froger, and Perfidia, a text she wrote to be spoken.encounters with musician-inventors of sound, such as Xavier Charles, have encouraged this happy evolution. Together, they created "Mevlido appelle Mevlido" after Antoine Volodine and "Les Furtifs" after Alain Damasio. 

Carlo Laurenzi
Computer music director

After studying guitar, composition and improvised music, Carlo Laurenzi turned to electronic music as a composer and performer.
Since 2005, he has taken part in several research projects, concerts, musical installations and creations throughout Europe. His electroacoustic pieces have been performed at a number of contemporary music festivals.
A permanent computer music director at Ircam since 2011, he has collaborated with Pierre Boulez, providing computer control and interpretation for his electronic pieces, and is a regular collaborator with several composers on their mixed-music projects (C. Czernowin, M. Stroppa, M. Levinas, P. Leroux, P. Hurel, F. Filidei, M. André).