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Encyclopédie de la Parole / Joris Lacoste, Pierre-Yves Macé, Sébastien Roux, Ictus
Encyclopédie de la Parole / Joris Lacoste, Pierre-Yves Macé, Sébastien Roux, Ictus
French artist Joris Lacoste spent fifteen years amassing a wealth of recordings of the human voice, collecting over a thousand audio documents that include parts of speeches, commercials, personal messages, readings, audio instructions, and so forth, in over twenty languages. These audio materials were the basis for Suites, a series of shows hugely successful in festivals and venues around the world.
For the final instalment in the series Lacoste chose to present a set of audio examples unmediated by actors. The original speakers themselves return from the past to engage with their own voices – their earlier melody, their unique timbre, their distinctive breathing. Offering a thousand details itemised in the original recordings, these audio documents – heard along with the music of Sébastien Roux and Pierre-Yves Macé played live by Ictus Ensemble – create an orchestra of voices that imparts on us the sheer variety and endless riches of human communication.
Languages include English, Italian, German, French, Hebrew, Thai, Spanish, Japanese, Malayalam, Swedish, Dutch, Arab, Portuguese, Napolitan, Russian, Gaulish, Scotch, Korean, Susu, Shanghainese, Catalan, the Sicilian dialect, Greek, and Tomáraho.
Concept
Encyclopédie de la parole & Ictus
Composition (dramaturgy)
Joris Lacoste
Composition (music)
Pierre-Yves Macé
Composition (electroacoustic music)
Sébastien Roux
Directed by
Joris Lacoste
Audio document collectors
Joris Lacoste, Oscar Lozano Pérez, Elise Simonet
Sound
Stéphane Leclercq, Alexandre Fostier
Lighting and set design
Florian Leduc
Graphic design and video
Oscar Lozano Pérez
Stage management
Cora Oosterlink
Artistic collaboration
Elise Simonet, Oscar Lozano Pérez, Nicolas Rollet
Live music
Hugo Abraham (bass, electric bass), Tom De Cock (percussions), Chryssi Dimitriou (flutes), Luca Piovesan (accordion), Jean-Luc Plouvier (electronic keyboard), Eva Reiter (Paetzold flute, viola da gamba), Primož Sukič (electric guitar, mandolin, banjo)
Production
Echelle 1:1 (companhia subsidiada pela Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication / DRAC Île-de-France, pelo Conseil régional d’Île-de-France e pelo Institut Français de Paris) em parceria com Ensemble Ictus (apoiado pela Comissão Europeia, Flemish Community – Vlaamse Overheid e Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommisie).
Com a Fondation d’entreprise Hermès no contexto do New Settings Program
Co-production
Festival d’Automne à Paris, MC93 – Maison de la Culture de Seine-Saint-Denis, Théâtre National de Strasbourg, Wiener Festwochen, KunstenFestivalDesArts, Ensemble Ictus, Teatro Municipal do Porto, Le Quartz – Scène Nationale de Brest, Festival Musica, Kaaitheater.
With the participation of
DICREAM
Residences
Les Subs no MC93 – Maison de la Culture de Seine-Saint-Denis e Théâtre National de Strasbourg, Festival Musical.
Guest collectors
Harris Baptiste, Charlotte de Bekker, Tom Boyaval, Sachith Joseph Cheruvatur, Sibel Diker, Julie Etienne, Lucas Guimarães, Otto Kakhidze, Priscila Natany, Nicolas Rollet, Ghita Serraj, Prodromos Tsinikoris, Ece Vitrinel
With the help of
Naby Moïse Bangoura, Anne Chaniolleau, Maria Cojocariu, Hélène Collin, Pauline et Balthazar Curnier-Jardin, Monica Demuru, Guillaume Deloire, Maria Clara Ferrer, João Fiadeiro, Karin de Frumerie, Fanny Gayard, David-Alexandre Guéniot, Hanna Hedman, Oleg Khristolyubskiy, Anneke Lacoste, Kathy Kyunghoo Lee, Sabine Macher, Federico Paino, Jin Young Park, Sergiu Popescu, Kittisak Pornpitakpong, Irina Ryabikina, Bernhard Staudinger, Giorgia Vignola, Ling Zhu
Acknowledgements
Pierre-Olivier Boulant
Photo copyright
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