Les mots troubles #4 / listening session - text & music

None of the three artists you will hear tonight "only make music".  Yet, on April 5, it is this relationship to sound that will bring us together. At the same time, these three artists have all lived elsewhere at some point in their lives, left, returned, or not. When I was researching the idea of "what you leave with" from a place, from your city, from your country, what constantly came back was music. In the form of a melody, a record, a tape, an mp3... From the vacation playlist to the farewell song, nothing accompanies us more than music. And today, with smartphones, it moves with us and is made available at any time.

When I had my daughter, I remembered the songs my mother used to sing to me. It is perhaps one of the most ancestral things, to sing to the other, to sing to oneself, to convey melodies. I tried for a long time to make a music album for my character Rose Pantopon but it never saw the light of day. I always wanted to play an instrument, it never happened. I used to sing quite a bit, but I didn't do anything with that either. The artists you are about to hear are the opposite of these non-achievements: they do it, they sing, they play, they compose. They have each developed different strategies of musical writing. And it is this diversity of experience that we will listen to tonight. Now, you say to yourself "ok for the music but what does it have to do with words and text? Well, they write music and they write words and lyrics too. So how does it work and blend, what is their relationship with the instrument the "musical" medium? What is their relationship to language, to the language that is created? 

A film, by Czech visual artist Marie Tučková in collaboration with Iga Świeściak, a moment of mixed sound and voice by Jamika Ajalon, an American poet and musician based in Saint Denis, and a musical and textual time by artist-researcher Célin Jiang, who lives and works between Paris and Shanghai.

Julie Béna