Festival Archipel – Sholto Dobie / Vox Balaenae / Arturas Bumšteinas / Stefanie Erni - Marianne Schuppe / DISPARS and more...

12:30 Foyer du 1er / concert
· Airs aléatoires ·
Sholto Dobie
Lutherie DIY

The Scottish artist’s solo performances are characterized by their great sensitivity and strong evocative power. Far removed from the globalized, hyper-connected world, Sholto Dobie creates his instruments from crudely assembled materials such as reeds, whistles, garbage bags, fans or air compressors. Bits of pipes peek out here and there. Fully embracing the element of randomness, even failure, the artist humbly walks a path of poetic, sensitive humanity.

Free entry

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14:00 et 16:30 - Salle de jeux / familles et sans famille
· Diving with George Crumb ·
Vox Balaenae
Trio Balaenae (Ingrid Bidet, Juliette Hubert, Colin Toniello : étudiant·x·es HEM)
Concert preceded by a watercolour workshop

One day George Crumb heard a recording of whale songs. Fascinated by the haunting sounds, he decided to compose a gentle, playful piece for flute, cello and piano. Vox Balenae is one of the most frequently performed compositions in the contemporary repertoire. A magnificent tribute to an extraordinary, insufficiently respected animal. To accompany the concert, a watercolor in water workshop, a work by artist Sarkis, is offered to audiences of all ages.

Free entry

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15:00 - Salon d’écoute / concert · acousmonium
· Augmentation d’écoute ·
Concert électroacoustique #2
Nicole Lachartre, Juan Sorrentino, Toshiya Tsunoda et d’autres (program online)
sound diffusion

It’s become a tradition: Archipel devotes two concerts to works that have left their mark on the history of recorded music. The team of the Salon d’écoute brings us a selection comprising both leading figures and lesser-known artists, allowing us to enjoy this specific musical genre that favors the ear over the eye.

Free Entry

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17:30 - Grande salle / concert performance
· Faire la pluie et le beau temps·
Arturas Bumšteinas 
Navigations, for wind and noise machines

Leaving the tranquil shores of the archipelago behind, the audience finds itself exposed to the vagaries of the weather, dictated by six performers and their extraordinary machines: a set of devices that imitate the wind, rain, sea and thunder, identical to those used in European theaters in the Baroque era. The project exposes our eyes and ears, indeed our entire bodies to a series of living, chaotic landscapes. The artists become wind and water, navigating the cues set in a series of weather maps they read like scores. The composer describes his work as “sonic structures that are like standbys, frozen moment-forms waiting to be metamorphosed into ‘real music’”. A beautiful tribute to the forces of nature, to the elements and to our presence in their midst, when we know enough to remain discreet.

10.- CHF

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19:00 - Escaliers / concert
· Courants ascendants ·
Stefanie Erni et Marianne Schuppe
Entrevoix
Hildegard von Bingen, Marianne Schuppe

The unaccompanied voice has a transparency and a communicative power unlike anything else. During the 12th century, Hildegard von Bingen put sacred words into sound and music, sublimating a message into something approaching the universal. The beauty of her oeuvre is a revelation each time one hears it, and it’s a joy to see it associated with the contemporary work of Marianne Schuppe. The composer and interpreter is joined by Stéfanie Erni to bring us a moment of pure poetry suspended in time.

Free Entry

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19:30 - Grande salle / concert
· A bout touchant·
DISPARS (Clara Levy et Alexis Degrenier)
Violon and percussion

It is with this magnificent duo that the festival draws to a close. The musical space the two artists conjure with their repetitive tones, contained tension and controlled volume is quite literally boundless. The sounds Alexis Degrenier coaxes out of an array of drum skins, sounding boards, drone boxes, bells and other objects with his sticks and mallets mingle with Clara Levy’s strings to create a moment of suspended grace. We take flight with these two important figures of the experimental and minimal scenes for as long as it takes to draw a very long breath.

10.- CHF

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22:30 - cave12 / hors les murs
· Let’s maybe dance ·
After Party !
Victoria Shen DJ set

Post-punk, noise, easy listening, Turkish disco, Sandungueo, library music, funk, big band, 60's garage, etc... A mix for staring out the train window, having a drink and may be dancing.

10.- CHF