Mixed piece for voice, prepared fans, audio support and six-point diffusion
" ... One doubts the night, I listen to everything flees! Space erases noise"
The rhythm, the swirling flight of air spirits and the musicality of Victor Hugo's poem are fascinating. The lexical field of sound is extremely well-developed, which inspired me to imagine an adaptation. In ToTo Djinns, sound is present everywhere: the performer's voice, the sounds resulting from his movements, amplified sound bodies and the sound of the medium...
The fantastic dimension of the poem is echoed in the unsettling experience of the performer and the sounds captured by the microphones made elusive by the multiphonic broadcast. The romantic content, hijacked, leaves room for a variety of possible readings.
Thus, we come to wonder: do we really hear what we see? And if what we can hear really exists?
Raphaële Dupire-Loubaton
sound artist
She first studied Philosophy and Performing Arts in Paris.
In 2006, she moved to Montpellier to devote herself to the clarinet, jazz and improvised music.
She spent six years studying composition at the Marseille Conservatoire, which she completed in June 2018, and applied to the Paris Conservatoire, where she was admitted to the CPES this year.
A cross-disciplinary artist, she is also a dancer, and is keenly interested in the relationship between music and dance. With this in mind, she began composing for the performing arts and performing for various choreographers.
Shaped by this multidisciplinary background and her interest in the mechanisms that make up artistic idioms, her work takes a variety of forms. She writes acousmatic and mixed-media pieces, is a member of the improvised music trio LANDS (with Anouck Genthon and Edward Williams) and creates a piece for actor and sound device(ToTo Djinns).
In addition, she co-founded with Camille Thilloy an experimental video-music duo supported by the MIM (Laboratoire de Musique et d'Informatique de Marseille).
Her work weaves close links between technical and artistic activities, giving rise to decompartmentalized forms mixing installation, sound, movement and the visual arts.
Julien Testard
sound artist
After a year at the Lyon Conservatoire, Julien Testard was admitted to the École Nationale Supérieure d'Art Dramatique de Montpellier, directed by Ariel Garcia-Valdes, where he worked with Richard Brunel, Emmanuel Daumas, Claude Degliame, Evelyne Didi, Yves Ferry, Bruno Geslin, Marion Guerrero, Isabelle Habiague, Richard Mitou, Matthieu Roy and Cyril Teste.
On his graduation in 2010, he appeared in Georges Lavaudant's La Tempête..., then under the direction of Matthieu Penchinat(George Dandin / Molière), Thomas Bédécarrats(Les Atrides), Fred Tournaire(Douze hommes en colère / Reginald Rose), Tony Cafiero(Celle-là / Daniel Danis), Marie-Claude Morland(Prairie / Frédéric Vossier) and Emmanuel Ray(Caligula / Albert Camus).
He then reunited with Georges Lavaudant for Cyrano de Bergerac, joined the Ring-Théâtre for the creation ofEdouard II and acted in PLEINE written and directed by Marion Pellissier, with whom he created the La Raffinerie company in 2013.
Recently, he has worked on productions by André Wilms(Preparadise Sorry Now / R.W. Fassbinder), Marie-Eve Signeyrole(La Soupe Pop / inspired by the world of The Tiger Lilies), Hélène Soulié(Nous sommes les oiseaux de la tempête qui s'annonce / after Lola Lafon) and the Les Nuit Claires company(Souliers Rouges written by Aurélie Namur and directed by Félicie Artaud).
He has also worked as assistant director to Evelyne Didi(Tout au plus le minime minimum / based on Depardon's San Clemente) and André Wilms(Kasimir und Karoline / Ödön Von Horváth), and filmed under the direction of Bruno Garcia(Le Bon Samaritain), Olivier Péray(Un soupçon d'innocence) and Merzak Allouache(La Baie d'Alger), as well as in the Candice Renoir series.
Raphaële Dupire-Loubaton
composition, direction and staging
Julien Testard
voice, body and object manipulation