The idea of this performance comes from Claudine Brahem whom imagined the amazing and very particular musical machines played by Jean-Pierre Drouet.
It's a composite piece constructed of excerpts from Conversations (1985), Enumérations (1988), Tour de Babel (1986)  and Eclipse partielle (1985).
We let you enjoy the films of Zapo Babilée and if you want to read more information about the genisis of this piece, Rendez-Vous on our page Notices

Héloïse Demoz, a doctoral student at Paris 8 Vincennes Saint-Denis University, imagined and organized this film session at the Amphi X of the university.
Thanks to her for offering us those wonderful original versions of "Toucher" by Vinko Globokar and "Le corps à corps" by Georges Aperghis.

First, Aperghis wrote 2 concert cycles for solo voice  - Six Tourbillons (1989) and Cinq Calmes plats (1992) - for the singer and actress Martine Viard.
Then, he asked Olivier Cadiot a French writer to imagine in between the musical pieces some "prières d'insérer", prayers to insert.
Cadiot says about his work :
"I had to write fragments of texts said by a singer on stage, to write to make her talk.
I did not write for the music but for a voice and that's very different. For the private life of a female singer."
She talks. She sings. She talks and sings. She talks to imaginary persons. A sweet and comic chaos in her head that we invite you to discover.

With Donatienne Michel-Dansac
Lightings and video installation by Daniel Lévy

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Composer's Notes An impossible portrait of a fluctuating woman (instrument & voice) who slides from one state of consciousness to another, like somebody who is looking for their way through the dark, like an endless derivation, pulling the instrumental ensemble into its vocal labyrinth. 
Sequences appear, like sonic images. The voice traverses these spaces, provokes them or undergoes them, or plays with them in a versatile way. No longer can you tell whether it's the voice or the instruments that lead the dance. One seems to be following the errand ways of the other, through contrasting fragments that succeed each other in a non-linear fashion. 
(translated by Andreas Waldburg-Wolfegg)

Images d'une oeuvre #13, IRCAM