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.
Support
, La Coopérative — Network for Musical Creation, DRAC PACA
Clara Barbier Serrano
From an early age, Clara Barbier Serrano learned to sing by exploring vowels, diphthongs, and triphthongs. After ten years at the Montpellier Conservatory, she decided to turn to opera singing. She then continued her studies in Paris, Leipzig, London, and then again in Paris. Throughout her travels, she refined her vocal technique and developed a close relationship with poetry, which led her to make Lied and Melody her favorite repertoire. Since 2021, she has formed a duo with pianist Joanna Kacperek. Together, they have participated in numerous international competitions, traveled, engaged in alternative platforms such as Liedinnovation, and won several prizes, notably at the Wolf Wettbewerb in Stuttgart and the Lyon Chamber Music Competition in 2024 and 2025. At the same time, a need for physicality led her to the opera stage. She has performed roles such as the Queen of the Night (Mozart), the Controller in Jonathan Dove's Flight, Olympia (The Tales of Hoffmann), the Little Mermaid (Régis Campo), and Elisabeth in Philip Glass's Les Enfants terribles. As her principles in life are rarely reflected in older repertoires, she has turned to contemporary and creative music. She collaborates with composers such as Martin Matalon and Anne Le Bozec, and with ensembles such as Ensemble Écoute and Le Balcon. In 2025, she released her first CD, Woven Words, dedicated to the links between words and sounds.
Julia Sinoimeri
Julia began playing the accordion at the CRD in Mulhouse. She graduated with a Master's degree in accordion, a prize in Generative Improvisation and a DE from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris in 2022, and an Artist Diploma in 2024. An eclectic artist, Julia performs regularly in solo recitals as well as chamber music, offering a repertoire ranging from baroque to contemporary music and tango. Passionate about theater, she works with Alexandre Martin-Varroy for the show If Music be the Food of Love, and with the Ensemble TM+ for Horace le Coucou. Her desire to create and promote contemporary music led her to co-found the trio "L'Impolie" in 2019. She has been invited to perform with the Ensemble Cairn, the Ensemble TM+, Les Surprises, La Clef des Chants, the Ensemble Intercontemporain, and the Paris Opera.
Gwen Rouger
Since everything is destined to disappear,Gwen Rouger is only interested in the moment of encounter and what it creates: a time of doubt, adaptation, listening, trial, and research, for both the artist and the audience. As a pianist, she designs musical performances that place encounters and human relationships at the center of the experience. Her writing, which she defines as "relational music," incorporates protocols that allow live music to be transformed according to interactions with the audience. She directs the company ENTRE, which offers piano performances for a single spectator in public spaces (Caravan, Construction Tent, Cattle Truck), as well as the performance Digestion for solo keytar. She has been artist-in-residence at the Cité des Arts, the Akademie Schloss Solitude, and the Château de La Roche Guyon. She is associate composer at the Théâtre de Vanves for the 25/26 and 26/27 seasons.

Clara Barbier Serrano
Julia Sinoimeri
Gwen Rouger
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