Recipe for a beautiful, large-scale collaborative electro-vocal piece for ‘La Belle Equipe’:
Invite a female choir to compose a tailor-made piece of music incorporating electronic elements, designed specifically for each of their voices. The machine will mirror or echo their vocal contributions.
Suggest that all the lyrics for the piece be written exclusively by the singers themselves, freely, without any pre-determined theme.
Record these lyrics sung by the singers, by other choirs, by family, friends, (grand)children, and by the pupils of La Busserine School.
Create a large sound bank with the recorded texts
Bring together and/or juxtapose all these sound, textual and musical elements… and compose!
The result is a fluid, baroque work, somewhere between “a cadavre exquis” and a musical patchwork.
Casting
Composer: Sébastien Béranger
Coordination of the project: Brigitte Cirla
- The vocal ensemble « La belle équipe » : 4 singers
- The choirs Indéchiffrables : 28 chorists
- Other participants (texts reading, interviews, sound recordings) : about 100 people, family, friends, people from the neighbourhood Belle de Mai and schools.
Partners
Miroirs||Echos is coproduced by Voix Polyphoniques, the choirs indéchiffrables and Difffusion. The project will be hosted in Voix polyphoniques ‘s rehearsal room, in la Friche la Belle de Mai (Marseille) for the conception and rehearsals (january to june 2022). Difffusion will provide its technology equipment and its electroacoustic creation studio.
Miroirs||Echos will be welcomed in residency at the PIC Télémaque (Marseille) in June 2022, with a public creation on Sunday, June 26.
The project is supported by the DRAC PACA, CD13 et Maison de la musique contemporaine.
