Each season, OCCURRENCES supports three artists in creating small-scale, touring musical productions designed to reach emerging audiences: young children and young audiences, seniors, and audiences with limited access. These works are designed for a variety of settings (daycare centers, schools, nursing homes, community centers, rural community centers, etc.), using lightweight technical equipment that promotes mobility and intimacy.

OCCURRENCES is based on long-term support, combining research and production residencies, knowledge-sharing sessions, workshops, meetings, and outreach activities throughout the region. Artists are fully engaged in building relationships with audiences, making these interactions a driving force behind artistic creation and experimentation.

By promoting mobility, the blending of artistic forms, and collaboration between venues, OCCURRENCES affirms a strong conviction: creative music is built on sharing, listening, and engaging closely with local residents.



Statement of Intent

“Chante le diable
Clara Barbier-Serrano
A musical performance based on a draw of five cards from the Tarot de Marseille. Each card is drawn by a member of the audience, who, after a brief introduction, will receive a song. The show consists of five texts, performed in different styles depending on the cards drawn. Since there are 22 cards in total, the same text may reappear several times in different “styles,” and each 20-minute session will be unique. The vocal styles will range from lyrical to experimental, including singer-songwriter, jazz, slam poetry, and others as the mood strikes. The lyrics will explore dreams, secrets, hopes, and questions—the kind one might ask the cards. I hope they’ll be funny at times, always feminist, and always poetic.

L'eau te douce
Gwen Rouger
A musical reverie based on our daily experience of water, which gently teaches us adaptability.
L'eau te douce is a piece lasting approximately 20–25 minutes for synthesizer and sampler, composed and performed by Gwen Rouger. Speakers are positioned around a group of audience members. The musician invites them to move through the space according to their responses to poetic and philosophical questions about their daily relationship with water. Depending on the nature of their movements, Gwen Rouger plays her synthesizer and sampler sounds differently using controllers and the Aftertouch system on her keytar. With its multiple textures, the music is organic, unfolding in a constant flow. Like water molecules, everything here “circulates”; there are echoes, connections between the movement of the audience and that of the music, in its very substance and in its spatial arrangement.

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OCCURRENCES
Clara Barbier-Serrano, Gwen Rouger, Julia Sinoimeri

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Clara Barbier Serrano
Julia Sinoimeri
Gwen Rouger
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