Solstices Sonores 2025

New appointment proposed by Epicentre, the Solstices Sonores follow up on the Improvisation meetings initiated in 2024. This year, Solstices span more than a month with six appointments:

1. Summer soil

Saturday 21 June at 6.50 pm in front of the pond Saint-Gervais in Jarnages
Tzitzimime (noise music)

Alessia Mercado (guttural song + palo de lluvia), Andrea Nucamendi Siliceo (electronic device + ocarinas), Charlotte Carteret (laughs)
Trio Mexico/Switzerland noise ritual inspired by interstellar creatures of Mexican mythology.
The imbalance on earth calls for Tzitzimime half-desses who descend during a solar eclipse to devour all that is human and start again in chaos and darkness.

The group is in Creuse for a recording period at Limit Studio Nicolas Esterle.
This concert is also part of the various events organized by the association La Moustache as part of the Fête de la Musique.

Sunday 22 June from 4am (morning!) to 12pm in Jarnages
Sound path : 8 hours free improvisation

A college of artists is currently looking into the future ofEpicentre. Today it offers a long sound path in different Jarnages places from dawn until noon to celebrate the summer solstice.

With Martine Altenburger (cello), Alexandre Chanoine (acoustic device), Fabrice Charles (trombone), Stella Cohen Hadria (voice), Marion Cros (electroacoustic device), Nicolas Esterle (modular synthesizer), Géraldine Keller (voices, flutes), Lê Quan Ninh (percussion, platinum) and Antony Sauveplane (electric guitar).

Route:

2. Sonaturadays 2025

Open to the public from Friday 27 to Sunday 29 June in Epicentre

For the second year in a row, Epicentre welcomed Sonaturadays, meetings of the association Sonatura which brings together Francophone audio-naturalists.

Friday, 27 June
8:00 p.m.: Espèces Compagnes with Martine Altenburger (Cello) and Lê Quan Ninh (sons) « fixed »)
21:00: The Field of Visions, film by Boris van der Avoort

Saturday, 28 June
06:00 : Exit at the Etang des Landes (Lussat)
12:00 : Shared meal
1.30 p.m. : Welcome coffee and inauguration
14h00 : Tribute to Jean-Claude Roché (1931-2025)
17h00 : Automatic Bird Recognition Solutions (Birdnet, Chirpity, Merlin Bird ID)
18:00: Sound projection: The Great Symphony of the Living by Fernand Deroussen
19h00 : Shared meal
8:30 pm: Film screening: The Mysterious Adventures of Claude Conseil Marie-Lola Terver and Paul Jousselin (23 min) and Cors body of Hippolythe Burkhart (11 min)

Sunday, 29 June
06:00 : Exit at the Etang des Landes (Lussat)
11:00: Listen to Sonatura member recordings
12:00 : Shared meal
14:00 : Listen to recordings of Sonatura members
16.00 : Sound projection : Other Rive by Marc Namblard
19h00 : Shared meal

Continuous: Listen under helmet Artic Summer by Marc Namblard and DIY Photo Workshop with Pauline Gouablin and Mélia Roger.

3. The Coasses of Archimedes

From Thursday 26 to Sunday 29 June at the washhouse of Jarnages

The composers Théo Mérigeau and Julien Rabin present a stage in their sound installation based on « Water flutes » Motor vehicles that start ringing when they are plunged into the water. The sound atmosphere created by these flutes recalls the acoustic activity of an ecosystem that could be found in the countryside near water points; An intense polyrhythmic life of toad songs, frogs and other batracians that respond and interact frantically, weaving a rich polyphonic fabric.
This facility will be the subject of a participatory workshop with the Jarnages primary school in 2025-2026.

4. The tour

4-6 July

On the other hand, the instruments derived from the territory's renditions were designed and built by the instrumentalists, and L Treatise, the graphic score of Cornelius Cardew.

• Friday 4 July at 7 p.m. : Grange of Lost Objects, Le Monteil, Naillat
• Saturday 5 July at 2 p.m. : Resourcerie des Ateliers de la Mine de Lavaveix-les-Mines
• Sunday 6 July at 11 am : In Epicentre as part of the Sunday Morning!

With Madeleine Michard, Nicolas Esterle, Loïc Haederli, Nadia Lëna, Corinne Lefebvre, Mina Small, Martine Altenburger and Fabrice Charles.

5. Sonore grocery store

8-11 July from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Second round of the tourSonore spices performance as a market stall all day from 10am to 6pm

Tuesday 8 July in Chambon sur Voueize (Place Aubergier, next to La Poste's office)
Wednesday 9 July in Clugnat (church square)
Thursday 10 July in Boussac (town hall square)
Friday 11 July in Felletin (place Courtaud)

6. Quatuor Secunda Volta

25-27 July

The quartet Secunda Volta was born of the desire of the four musicians Aisha Ozbayeva (violin) Clara Levy(violon), Julia Robert (alto) and Martine Altenburger (cello) to interpret the repertoire for the 20th and 21st century quartet, including Morton Feldman's 2nd quartet, a monumental work lasting 6 hours.