By focusing on the minute modulations of human speech, Suite No. 4 celebrates the living and the ephemeral: a way of echoing "the inflection of dear voices that have fallen silent. At the heart of this theater of ghosts, the voices, recorded one day somewhere and carrying with them a thousand living details, are supported and carried by the instruments, as in an opera.

For the last show of the Suites series, the Encyclopedia of Speech has chosen to directly hear the material that makes up its sound collection and is used to write its shows: the recordings of speech.

It is no longer the actors who give substance to lost voices, but the characters themselves who return from the past to speak to us with their own voices, their original melodies, their inimitable timbres, their particular breaths.

Sounded by Sébastien Roux, the words enter and leave the stage, carrying with them spaces, images, situations, frictions, blocks of tension or emotion, major or tiny events - a thousand living details that the recording has engraved and that are replayed once again for us.

As in an opera, the voices are supported, carried away, transported by the instrumental music: interpreted by 7 members of the Ictus ensemble, Pierre-Yves Macé's score shifts the listening experience and reveals buried accents. By crossing the acoustic and the electric, by summoning unusual associations of timbres, it exacerbates perception and arouses literally unheard-of emotions.

A kind of ghost theater, then, but with living specters, in color, - who speak, whisper, shout, apostrophize, laugh, dialogue, count, tell, explain, preach and console, rage and encourage, desire and regret, pray and thank, dance and suffer and enjoy and live and do not want to die.

By focusing on the infinite and minute modulations of human speech, Suite No. 4 is a celebration of the most living and the most fleeting: a way of making resound, one last time, "the inflection of dear voices that have fallen silent".

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Location
Suite n°4
Encyclopedia of speech / Lacoste, Macé, Roux, Ictus
Show
Sat. May 7, 2022 | 21h00 La Criée - National Theater of Marseille

RATES
Full : 13 €
Reduced : *8 €
-12 years old : 6€
*12-25 years old apprentices and students 

DURATION
1h55 without intermission

Distribution

Encyclopedia of Speech & Ictus
conception

Joris Lacoste
dramaturgical composition and direction

Pierre-Yves Macé
instrumental music composition

Sébastien Roux
electroacoustic music composition

Hugo Abraham
double bass, electric bass

Tom De Cock
percussion

Chryssi Dimitriou
flutes

Luca Piovesan
accordion

Jean-Luc Plouvier
electronic keyboard

Eva Reiter
viola da gamba, paetzold flute

Primož Sukič
electric guitar, mandolin, banjo

Joris Lacoste, Oscar Lozano Pérez and Elise Simonet
document collection

Stéphane Leclercq and Alexandre Fostier
sound

Florian Leduc
lighting and scenography

Oscar Lozano Pérez
graphic design and video

Wilfried Van Dyck
stage management

Elise Simonet, Oscar Lozano Pérez and Nicolas Rollet
artistic collaboration

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