Research and creation: sound composition and staging of the performance
Transformer intended to use the small wasted energies: an energetic performance is a project of sound performance which is inspired by a text of Marcel Duchamp. In this short text, the artist proceeds to the enumeration of bodily phenomena ("the excess of pressure on an electric button", "the fall of tears", "the movements of fear, of boredom, of anger"...) of which it would be a question of recycling the squandered energy.
The performance proposes to make an inventory of the possible uses of an instrumentarium conceived to recycle the overflows of a performer's body in the form of sound energy. Through improbable assemblies of body/object or body/machine, it is a question of giving to see and hear a gallery of loud creatures with low energetic performance.
Coproduction
Château Ephémère, Biennale Mars à l'Ouest
Residency
Château Ephémère, Point Ephémère, GMEM - Centre national de création musicale, Marseille
Camille Lacroix
Composer and visual artist
Camille Lacroix studied electroacoustic composition at the CRD of Pantin, in the class of Marco Marini, Jonathan Prager and Santiago Diez Fischer. She is currently evolving between the fields of music, visual arts and performance.
In 2020, she began working on a multidisciplinary project based on a text by Marcel Duchamp: "Transformer destined to use small wasted energies", which takes the form of a collection of sound miniatures, drawings and a booklet inspired by the work of the MIM on UST. This project finally allows him to reconnect with his theatrical origins, with the creation of a performance, and the design of a dedicated instrument. His sound work is regularly broadcast in radio programs, concerts and festivals (Festival Futura, Supersonique, Exhibitronic). His piece "Grabüg-eûment" is the winner of the Petites Formes 2022 competition (TPMC).
Grégoire Terrier
Composer, sound artist and musician
Grégoire Terrier currently lives in Paris. He won the Music & Research Institute Prize in Belgium in 2020 with a sound piece on language disorders and the Original Music Prize at the Aubagne Film Festival (short film category, 2021 and the INA GRM test bench in 2018).
Influenced by his West Indian and German origins, he likes to mix popular rhythms and experimental music. His compositions are inspired as much by natural soundscapes as by urban sounds or sacred music. His love of music to image leads him to work with many directors including Rémi Forte (Le Mystère Satoshi, IKO & ARTE) or Baptiste Cogitore (Le fantôme de Theresienstadt, Auschwitz Foundation Award 2019). His taste for improvisation and his questioning of the place of the body in musical writing led him to create and participate in several performances, including "Ondine" (Cité international des arts, 2021) "Honkyuku" (Musée Transitoire, FIAC 2019) and "Le mal de mer" (Nuit Blanche 2019).
Sig Valax
Musician and digital artist
Sig Valax is based in Paris. She attended Christine Groult's electroacoustic composition class at the Conservatoire de Pantin (DEM) and produces electroacoustic pieces, radio podcasts (ARTE Radio), sound creations for live performance(Un qui veut Traverser, 2022). Since 2016 she creates with the trio Vierge Noir e the music for the choreographer Anna Gaïotti,(Les antécédentes, 2020, A kiss without lips, 2021-22). In her compositions she makes Persephone and modular synthesizers converse to create a rough and ramified music. In her improvisations, she looks for frictions, tensions, energies and practices a non-idiomatic music based on organic drones. She explores experimental improvised music with Vierge Noir e, Elek Ember, Seuil Optique, Sauges, Mesce Basse, Lucus Furrina. In parallel to her musical research, Sig has trained in various therapeutic practices such as hypnosis, magnetism and shamanic healing which have forged her sensitivity to the invisible and her proximity to the world of dreams.
Camille Lacroix
conception, composition and interpretation
Sigolène Valax, Grégoire Terrier