Lydie Salvayre
Author

Born in 1946 to an Andalusian father and Catalan mother, who had fled to France in February 1939, Lydie Salvayre spent her childhood in Auterive, near Toulouse. After graduating from the University of Toulouse with a Bachelor's degree in Modern Literature, she studied medicine at the Toulouse Faculty of Medicine, followed by an internship in psychiatry. She became a child psychiatrist, and was Medical Director of the CMPP in Bagnolet for 15 years. Lydie Salvayre is the author of some twenty books, translated in many countries, some of which have been adapted for the stage. "La Déclaration" (1990) won the Prix Hermès for first novel, "La Compagnie des spectres" (1997) won the Prix Novembre (now the Prix Décembre), "BW" (2009) won the Prix François-Billetdoux and "Pas pleurer" (2014) won the Prix Goncourt.

Florence Baschet
Composer

A composer born in Paris, Florence Baschet began her musical studies at the École Normale de Musique de Paris and the Conservatorio Santa Cecilia in Rome, then in musicology, harmony and counterpoint in Paris. She then turned her attention to the new acoustic instrumental lutherie (and in particular the Baschet crystal), an instrument she explored in several directions, such as the Carnatic music of South India, the musical milieu of jazz and the possibilities of sound transformation by electroacoustic devices. In 1992, she joined Ircam's composition and computer music program, after which she wrote Alma-Luvia. She was subsequently commissioned by Ircam to write "Spira Manes", and by the French government to write "Sinopia et Aïponis" for the ensemble L'Itinéraire, whose artistic director, composer Michaël Levinas, actively supports her work. She went on to write "Femmes" for Radio France, "Filastrocca" for the Manca Festival, "Bobok" for the 2e2m ensemble and the GRM, "Trinacria", commissioned by Musique Nouvelle en Liberté, and "BogenLied", the first piece written for the augmented violin, for the Why Note Festival.
One of the guiding threads of his work is the critical integration of a natively instrumental vocabulary into his writing. Continuing his research at Ircam has led him to work in the field of mixed music, which combines the soloist with the electroacoustic device in a particular interactive relationship linked to the instrumental gesture, and which seeks to highlight the interpretive phenomena on which sound transformations depend.

Anne-Laure Liégeois
Stage director

Anne-Laure Liégeois alternates between staging ancient and classical texts and collaborating with contemporary authors. She often translates and adapts the texts she stages. She works with opera, particularly Baroque music, and regularly collaborates with opera singers and contemporary composers. She has directed a Centre Dramatique National and is an associate artist at numerous Scènes nationales. She works both in theatres and in public spaces.
She works in Morocco, Quebec and other French-speaking countries. In July 2021, she premiered Ibsen's "Peer Gynt" at the Théâtre du Peuple de Bussang; in September 2021, she created "Fuir le Fléau", a commission to 16 playwrights for "theaters in health crisis situations". In 2022, she will stage Arno Bertina's novel "Des Châteaux qui brûlent". She is the stage director for the reopening of the BnF Richelieu.

Serge Lemouton
Computer music director

After studying violin, musicology, writing and composition, Serge Lemouton specialized in the various fields of computer music at the Sounds Department of the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Lyon. Since 1992, he has been RIM at Ircam. He collaborates with researchers on the development of computer tools and participates in the realization of musical projects for composers including Florence Baschet, Laurent Cuniot, Michael Jarrell, Jacques Lenot, Jean-Luc Hervé, Michaël Levinas, Magnus Lindberg, Tristan Murail, Marco Stroppa, Fréderic Durieux and others. He has produced and performed in real time several works by Philippe Manoury, including K..., la frontière, On-Iron, Partita 1 and 2, and Luca Francesconi's opera Quartett. At present, he is particularly interested in the transmission and preservation of works from the computer music repertoire.