Grand 8

For this ensemble’s new creation—which brings together 15 musicians and artists and which Grand 8 has chosen to call “Lumières!”—sounds, voices and bodies allow themselves to be pierced and invaded by the lights and shadows emerging from the secrets of music. An on-site musical and sound creation process that, using the creative tools it has developed over the years, explores what music can share of our inner lives, even our sensations, and what it can convey of our vertigo: the resonances captured through it by the eye and the ear. And the protagonists of this ritual finally allow themselves “to draw from it a kind of freedom that would speak of sensitivity, exchange and the fragility of the present moment.” A moment of joy and freedom born of inventive and unreal engineering.

Bastien Boni double bass Olivier Bost trombone Sébastien Bouhana percussion, objects Laurent Charles soprano saxophone Emmanuel Cremer cello João Fernandes electronics Catherine Jauniaux voice, objects Soizic Lebrat cello Magali Rubio bass clarinet Geneviève Sorin accordion Nicoló Terrasi guitars François Wong baritone saxophone