Numbers are the big deal of music! And Pythagoras would not contradict us on this point. Let us imagine three performers who, according to the pieces they play, literally reveal the numbers behind them, who play with them and play with us.
As the stage progresses, it fills with everything listed, revealing the structure of the works. With their rhythm, duration or direction, these figures illustrate coordinates, superpositions, juxtapositions, slippages, velocities, in a logic whose arithmetic gives itself to understand with as much transparency as a pendulum, the surprise in addition. All this lights up on the plate through several visual technologies, giving to see a rustling of light, a space making itself vibrant by the presence of numbers drawn by a laser, projected on multiple surfaces, gradually simmering...
Works by John Cage, Jason Treuting, Steve Reich, Tom Johnson, Georges Aperghis and Théo Mérigeau
Distribution: Aurélie Maisonneuve (voice, melodica and percussion), Martine Altenburger (cello, voice, melodica and percussion), Lê Quan Ninh (voice, melodica and percussion), Julien Rabin (technological development).
This project music and mathematics involves broadcasting a small form of homelessness in schools The tale of accounts, the development of a protocol of artistic and cultural education shared between artists and researcher Thomas Guyard.
Played in class, such as a lesson in very singular mathematics, The account tale offers, through two or three pieces chosen from composers John Cage, Tom Johnson, Georges Aperghis – the interpretation and explanation of some mathematical principles in music on scores to count, pyramids of phonemes, additions of sounds or even groups of rhythms.
A table, a table, labels that pull themselves by lot in a hat and here's the music that unfolds by bringing with the simplicity of a wink of eye, fun of a strictly respected mathematical logic.
Production and distribution : Athenor nomadic scene – CNCM, Saint-Nazaire & Ryoanji / Epicentre, en Creuse
Co-production : GRAME-CNCM, Lyon – With the support of the OARA (Office Artistique Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine), the CNM and Sacem. With the partnership of the Laboratory of Mathematics Jean-Leray of the University of Nantes
