Launched in 2020, Ircam's Musiques-Fictions collection offers a unique literary and sound experience, combining a contemporary text with a musical creation, in an immersive broadcasting system.... Installed under Ircam's 49-speaker ambisonic diffusion dome, reconstituted in the GMEM Module, the listener is invited to a listening experience in which the imagination is stimulated by a sound environment with extensive expressive possibilities, enabling the reproduction of a
listening situation close to that of the real world, from the great spectacular stage to the most minute details of intimate discourse.
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This Music-Fiction entitled "Believing in wild beasts" tells the story of how, in 2015, while on an anthropological mission in the farthest reaches of Siberia, Nasstassja Martin, out alone in the forest, is attacked by a bear that tears off half her face.
Disfigured, she underwent numerous operations in Russia, then in France.
The researcher tells the story of her reconstruction, both physical and psychological, but goes beyond the story of this traumatic accident to reflect on the encounter between human and non-human worlds at a time when the planet's ecosystems are collapsing.
Production
Ircam-Centre Pompidou
Support
Sacem
Based on
"Croire aux fauves" by Nastassja Martin © Éditions Gallimard
In partnership with
la Friche la Belle de Mai
"To adapt Nasstassja Martin's story, it seemed to me that the acousmatic form was the most appropriate. The music attempts to suggest to the listener actions and affects that do not take place at the precise moment when the story is told by the narrator. I tried to weave music and text together as much as possible, so that the listener always follows the thread of the narrative.
The outdoor soundscapes were largely captured in Kerry, Ireland, and the hospital interiors at Hôpital Sainte-Anne in Paris, but are then processed electronically.
Many of the sounds were produced with an analog synthesizer emulator, and I placed particular emphasis on modifications using vocoder-type formantic filters."
- Frédéric Pattar
Nastassja Martin
Writer
Born in 1986, Nastassja Martin is an anthropologist and specialist in Arctic populations. She is the author of an essay, taken from her doctoral thesis directed by Philippe Descola: "Les Âmes sauvages".Les Âmes sauvages". "Face à l'Occident, la résistance d'un peuple d'Alaska" (La Découverte, 2016; Prix d'Histoire de l'Académie française 2017) as well as a documentary in progress, co-directed with Mike Magidson, "Tvaïan" (Point du jour / Arte). "Croire aux fauves" is his first story.
Frédéric Pattar
Composer
French composer born November 24, 1969 in Dijon, France.
Frédéric Pattar is particularly interested in the interplay between music, text, electronics and visual representation
. His music exhibits a highly contrasting language: always taut, uncompromising yet never shying away from a certain lyricism, it conceals a genuine dramatic intensity. The driving force behind Frédéric Pattar's work is the rhythmic flow, which breaks in successive waves and disrupts the harmonic fabric, creating sound perspectives that are as obvious as they are unexpected.
Mathilde Delahaye
Stage director
Before joining the TNS School of Drama in the Directing section (Groupe 42, 2013-2016), Mathilde Delahaye worked in companies and directed texts by Handke, Vaneigem, Gripari, Artaud, Mayorga, Kane and Barker. During her training in Strasbourg, she created several shows: "Le mariage" after Witold Gombrowicz (winner of the Young European Theater prize in Spoleto), three landscape shows - "L'Homme de Quark" after Christophe Tarkos, "Babile au bord des villes" after Charles Pennequin, and Paul Claudel's "Tête d'Or" in the former Coop buildings in Strasbourg -, "Karakinda", a musical by Francisco Alvarado, in partnership with Ircam, and "Trust Opus" after Falk Richter.
On graduating, she became associated with the Espace des Arts de Chalon-sur-Saône, where she created several theatrical and operatic forms on the Port Nord site, as well as "Pantagruel" - a touring show based on texts by François Rabelais, and Valère Novarina's "L'Espace furieux" at Espace des Arts, then on tour. As part of her association with the CDN de Tours, she is continuing her work on landscape theater. In 2020, she will create "Maladie ou Femmes modernes" by Elfriede Jelinek and Nickel. She is currently working on her SACRe thesis at the Conservatoire National Supérieur d'Art Dramatique.
Quentin Nivromont
Computer Music Producer
Quentin Nivromont's career is multi-faceted. He holds a Master's degree in Computer-Aided Composition from the University of Paris 8 Vincennes - Saint-Denis, as well as a DEM in Composition and Electroacoustic Music from the Dieppe Conservatoire, and has been working for over ten years as a sound engineer, developer and producer in computer music. Interested in human-machine interfaces and sound spatialization systems, he has since worked on numerous artistic and industrial projects combining music, theater and multimedia for companies such as Succursale 101, Le Clair Obscur, Ensemble 2e2m and companies like Puce Muse, Devialet and Ircam.
Friche la Belle de Mai (the Module)
41 Jobin Street13003
Marseille
RATES
Full: 8€
Reduced: 6€ *
* Young people aged 12 - 25, students, jobseekers, recipients of minimum social benefits, intermittent workers, seniors aged 65 and over - on presentation of proof.
Pass Musiques-Fictions * : 10€
*(giving access to two sessions in the same evening) Music-Fiction 4 + Music-Fiction 5)
DURATION
50 min.
Nastassja Martin
text
Frédéric Pattar
music and direction
Mathilde Delahaye
adaptation
Quentin Nivromont
computer music production Ircam
Jérémie Bourgogne
sound engineering
with the voice of
Audrey Bonnet