Last days of a 5-week residency in Finland. I arrived in the snow near the frozen lake of Ahilammentie to compose the music for the show Slap! At the request of choreographer Saku Koistinen. The show was written in the Finnish forest and is designed to be performed among the trees. Saku well knows my affection for sound writing in public spaces and this is probably one of the reasons…
I took advantage of this five-week stay on the shores of Lake Ahilammentie, in Somero, Finland, to collect sounds taken in the forest, on the shores of the lake, under the lake… Some of these sounds have been used for the soundtrack of the show Slap! and will also be present in a forthcoming discographic edition gathering my musical and sound works realized here, in Finland. Here I give you…
SLAP! is a work that is both rehearsed and performed in the forest. It is a captivating and humorous discourse that explores the challenges of life as a human being who tries and often fails… SLAP! is inspired by the worlds of Buster Keaton and Chaplin, among others. Contemporary dance, slapstick comedy and live music meet. “We explore the world in our own slightly eccentric way, through comedy and contemporary…
Bugel Koar, twenty years later! With Marthe Vassallo, we said that one day we would bring out the songs in which we had put so much of ourselves at the beginning of the years 2000, and of which some of you still speak to us with emotion… Well, it starts at the Théâtre de l’Arche in Tréguier, on the occasion of the Aérolithes which will take place at the Logelloù…