Modulations (GMEM) & JEST - Jamais d'Eux Sans Toi (AMI)
An evening of partnership based around two events...

7:00 pm: Part 1
The Prediction of Oscillations

Intermission (1h approx.)

9:00 pm: Part 2
Substrate

7:00 pm: Part 1
Oscillation prediction

La prédiction des oscillations is an unclassifiable form, an unidentified scenic and musical object, the fruit of an encounter between composer and director Benjamin Dupé and neuroscience researcher Daniele Schön.

Acclaimed at its premiere at the Musica festival in Strasbourg, the show weaves together scientific discourse on the workings of our brains, contemporary musical creation and original theatrical situations with a subtle sense of balance. Imbued with humor, a desire to share and poetry, the performance leaves behind any didactic spirit to combine sensibility with knowledge, play with discourse, and thus build joyful spaces of resonance.

From the history of cerebral metaphors to laboratory experiments transposed to the stage, which require audience participation, not forgetting the importance of chance in scientific research, La prédiction des oscillations questions our representation of the brain and in particular our unfortunate tendency to consider it as a super-computer. Contrary to this ready-made thinking dictated by the tech and AI industries, another neural theory takes shape, a musical theory in essence, made up of oscillations, synchronizations and predictions. A new way of looking at things that opens up as many perspectives on who we are as it does new artistic gestures and interactions.

9:00 pm: Part 2
Substrate

How can sound be deconstructed to make way for silence? What do audiences witness when they arrive in the concert hall without having witnessed the gesture that produced the sound? What kind of concert is it when the ritual has been turned upside down, the ceremony reversed? And above all, how do they listen, when they're there above all to witness the process of sound's inevitable disappearance? 

For 50 minutes, Flore and Arandel will work to unravel the music, to erase this pile of sounds. By shaping this material, by gradually hollowing out this complex body of sound, they will gradually bring out sequences of melodies, revealing rhythms and other harmonics previously buried in the thickness of the drone. As the sound fades and a white smoke appears, invading everything, the light returns inversely, very gradually and uniformly in this cloudy mass. Finally, even the feedback fades away in this luminous white magma. Silence has been achieved. It is deafening.