Composer and sound artist Christian Sebille takes over the church in the hamlet of Saint-Michel to make landscapes and miniature sounds, using instruments from his electronic instrumentarium to discover some of the most important scores in the acousmatic repertoire, from the pioneer Luc Ferrari to Georges Boeuf, a composer from Marseilles who has been a long-time supporter of the Festival de Chaillol

To the public curious about new musical experiences, we advise you to make a date: the composer and sound artist Christian Sebille makes the church of the hamlet of Saint-Michel the fantastic vessel of a new musical journey open to all. From his console, the director of the GMEM - national center for musical creation - is at the helm of an acousmatic concert imagined for the occasion. In a semi-darkness, the listeners sit comfortably, surrounded by a crown of very high definition loudspeakers. The first sounds appear and develop, subtle, unheard of. A sound space opens up, develops, an enveloping fiction of sounds. To listen without seeing, such is the suggestion of acousmatics, the intuition of Pierre Schaeffer, its illustrious discoverer.

Sensitive to the acoustics of the place, Christian Sebille has imagined a musical program that brings together some of the major figures of musique concrète to accompany the discovery of a musical movement born after the war by the development of the tape recorder: Presque rien n°1 composed in 1970 by Luc Ferrari, with whom Christian Sebille forged his first tools, Compositions Ornithologiques, by Bernard Fort, impregnated with nature, Les Filles du Sommeil, by Georges Boeuf, a composer from Marseille who passed away in 2020, and a faithful friend of the festival.The concert will also be an opportunity to discover the Trois études haut-alpines, sketches of a future work commissioned by the Chaillol festival to celebrate the richness of the mountain's sound worlds.

Christian Sebille will lead three "Field Recording" workshops from 9am to 12pm over three days.