Alex Grillo
sound artist

His career is a crossing of musical genres: jazz, learned music, traditional or innovative, written or improvised. In France and in Italy - his countries of birth and adoption - as well as in Asia, the Middle East and Africa, he has made numerous creations with traditional musicians, especially for Javanese gamelan. He has notably collaborated with : Steve Lacy, Barre Philipps, François Jeanneau, Didier Malherbe, Michel Godard, Andy Emler, Daunik Lazro, Didier Petit as well as Terry Riley, Sapto Raharjo, Jean Schwarz, Luc Ferrari, François Rossé, Christian Sebille, Jean-Yves Bosseur etc. As a curious creator, he articulates projects with innovative forms and collaborates with various and often unexpected circles: musicians, dancers, actors of course, but also poets, visual artists and scientists. He is responsible for the musical realization of projects by street arts companies, as well as various commissions from authors: those of the National Centers for Musical Creation (Nice, Marseille, Reims, Alfortville), the INA-GRM (composition of electro-acoustic pieces), as well as commissions from the State, the CDN of Nice, the CNRS, the CNES (National Center for Space Studies), and France-Inter, France-Musique, and France Culture's radio creation workshops. Poetry and narration are very naturally associated with his work of "setting in sound" and for 20 years he has been multiplying projects and creations with writers and poets (Nimrod, Daniel Biga, Jean-Luc Raharimanana, Koffi Kwahulé, Édith Azam).

Édith Azam
sound artist

Having a horror of biographies, Edith Azam likes to present herself in the following way: A/ Edith Azam, motorized, author, she has. She was born on her own, but it doesn't make her hot or cold, she is really motorized, in France and abroad. For the rest? Living will always say a thousand times better what : authorizes me. And that's it. B/ Edith Azam will put on her flip-flops and then go around the garden three times, closing her eyes. She will easily find the watering can on her left, the smell of lavender on her right and the grass under her feet. She hopes not to fall into the trap of the ants, but into the nest of the neighbor. She will be back in fifteen minutes and that's it. C/ Edith Azam is like most people renovating a house. It's not her house. She has also painted a pool that is not her pool and raked a wonderful garden that is not her garden. Edith Azam knows she will never have a backyard pool house. Most people are like her. They don't make a big deal about it. Neither does she. And that's that. D/ Edith Azam is like most people, for example, this summer she walked up a river with her feet in the water while laughing. She made three dams that didn't dredge anything. She took 12 swims in her little bathing suit. Thought about a lot of things. She talked all night to her dog, Bubble. She talked to him until he clearly told her to stop, that what she was saying didn't make sense at all. Then she fell asleep. Didn't see the shooting star, nor the wish floating behind her. And that's it. E/ Edith Azam looks at her dog. He smokes a cigarette, reads a book on fluid mechanics. Edith Azam raises an eyebrow and says to herself that she wouldn't understand a thing, that her dog must be pretty bored to be reading such books, that he'd really better do what she does: gnaw on his bone. Here we go.

Brigitte Cirla
singer, actress

Brigitte Cirla invents her way with a fertile requirement and a great curiosity. A French singer, actress and teacher, she worked with the Zéro de conduite company from 1976 to 1979 and with the Théâtre du Lierre from 1987 to 1990. She has been the director of the professional musical theater company Voix Polyphoniques since 1991, with whom she has produced, created and toured some twenty musical theater shows from Taiwan to Cuba, from Norway to Spain, from Bali to Georgia, from Lithuania to Serbia, regularly passing through France, her home base. The company has been a permanent resident of La Friche la Belle de Mai since 1996. She also produced the vocal and theatrical duo Nakasoné from 1991 to 1997 and directed Dissonantes, a musical theater show based on three composers: Bartok, Kodaly and Ligeti from 1998 to 2001. As a choral conductor, she directs and performs with groups of singers in several cities in Germany and France, including the choirs Indéchiffrables in Marseille, as well as La Belle Équipe and HOME, of which she is the creator. She is also a co-founder and increasingly determined activist of The Magdalena Project, a movement created in 1986, which promotes and makes visible the work of women artists in the performing arts.

SébastienBéranger
sound artist

A student of Emmanuel Nunes, Michaël Levinas, Luis Naón and Michèle Reverdy at the CNSMD in Paris, Sébastien Béranger received training in analysis, composition and new applied technologies. At the same time, he obtained a DEA in Aesthetics and Art Sciences and a PhD in musicology. A multiform composer who multiplies approaches to music, Sébastien Béranger explores between the writing of instrumental scores and improvisation in live electronics. His music develops through mathematics and generates its material by conceptualizing the sound through graphic representation. He synthesizes, confronts and merges the idioms of spectral music, post-serialism and postmodal trends. Like a sculptor, he works on space as a metaphorical representation of different musical scales. First laureate of the International Foundation Lili and Nadia Boulanger in 2001-02, he won in 2001 the Opera Prima Europa competition (Italy) and won awards and scholarships from the Electro-acoustic Composition Competition Música Viva (Portugal), the ZKM's International Competition for Electroacoustic Music (Germany) and the Académie des Beaux-Arts (Institut de France). His music has been performed by Christophe Desjardins, by the ensembles Accroche Note, Alter Ego, Aleph, Assonance, 2e2m, by the Axone Quartet and the Ensemble Intercontemporain, and has been programmed in the festivals Musica, Nuits Bleues, Nicephore Days, Gaudeamus Music Week...

Alain Aubin
countertenor, composer, choirmaster

Throughout his singular career, this countertenor, composer and choir director from Marseille has performed on the most important opera stages in Europe (Vienna, Brussels, Lyon, Montpellier, Paris-Châtelet, Rome, Naples-San Carlo). It was Philippe Herreweghe who discovered his voice and his musical instinct, while he was still an oboist at the Opéra de Marseille. His debut at his side at the Chapelle Royale made him a specialist in early music. Attracted by the contemporary adventure, he participated in 1996 in the creation of GO-gol by Michaël Lévinas, directed by Daniel Mesguisch (Montpellier Opera and Strasbourg Musica Festival). The year 97 marked the beginning of a major collaboration with the composer and director Roberto De Simone. In 1998, he met Peter Eötvös who entrusted him with the role of Olga in his opera in Russian, Three Sisters, at the Opéra de Lyon under the direction of Kent Nagano. Fratris Solis (ode to Francis of Assisi) is his first composition, recorded in 1993 by Sonpact. He composed the finale of La Massalia, for a thousand choristers, in 1999, (commissioned by the City of Marseille for the 26th centenary). In 2006, the Cité des Arts de la rue, Lieux Publics, commissioned him to create the musical N'écoutez pas! Since then, he has composed the music for choir and the music for the stage of Sainte Jeanne des abattoirs by Bertolt Brecht. This experience with amateurs has allowed him to develop a musical language adapted to oral transmission. The French Cultural Center of Phnom Penh welcomed him in residence with Catherine Marnas, for a musical creation on the Khmer tale The Two Partridges, mixing voice, electronic music and traditional instruments. This invitation was renewed for L'Affaire de la rue de Lourcine by Labiche.