SOUND/IMAGE: Exploring sonic and audio-visual practice

10-12 November 2017

The Sound/Image colloquium explores the relationships between sounds and images, and the images which sounds can construct by themselves.

Through a series of complementary strands – talks, screenings, loudspeaker orchestra concerts – we will bring together artists and experts to investigate sound and sound-image phenomena.

This year we are delighted to invite Yves Daoust, Holly Rogers and Bret Battey as special guests for this third instalment of SOUND/IMAGE.

The Purloined Letter - La lettre volée

Videopera

The videopera, filmed and projected live, follows the absurd pursuit of those in search of the letter. The only way to escape the madness is to use reason to find out the secret of this extraordinary letter. But what is reasoning? And how to reason correctly? Do mathematicians reason correctly? Or poets? Or the mad?

 

Six singers, the Sturm und Klang ensemble, the musical director Thomas van Haeperen, the young videographer Helga Dejaegher, students from École Supérieure des Arts, Arts²  the composer Denis Bosse, staged by Frederic Dussenne, are transformed into mathematicians, poets and madmen in this Videopera. They, thus, drag the audience along with them in a vertiginous, dramatic and existential mise en abyme.

 

 

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR AND COMPOSER : Denis Bosse

 

LIBRETTISTS : Pascal Nottet and Denis Bosse

 

CONDUCTOR : Thomas Van Haeperen

 

PRODUCER: Frédéric Dussenne

 

ARTISTIC ADVISOR : Pierre Thomas

 

SINGERS: 

 

Nicolas Ziélinski (Counter-tenor— Dupin)

 

Sarah Defrise (Soprano — Le fou)

 

Xavier de Lignerolles (tenor — Le préfet de Police)

 

Kris Belligh (Bass-baritone — Le Ministre)

 

Anne Matic (Mezzo Soprano — Reine)

 

Thomas Van Caekenberghe (Baritone — Narrateur)

 

MUSICIANS

 

Ensemble Sturm und Klang

 

Maxime Stasyk (violon 1)

 

Loris Douyez (violon 2)

 

Dominica Eyckmans (alto)

 

Catherine Lebrun (violoncelle)

 

Natacha Save (contrebasse)

 

Justine Debeer (clarinette)

 

Amaury Geens (saxophones)

 

SzeFong Yeong (cor)

 

Jean-Louis Maton (percussions)

 

Olivier Douyez (accordéon)

 

Marion Lambert (piano)

 

VISUAL ARTS

 

ARTS² (under the supervision of Jean-François Octave)

 

SET AND VIDEO

 

Helga Dejaegher

 

ASSISTANT

 

Emmanuel Selva

 

COSTUMES 

 

Sara Signore

 

PRODUCTION

Quart de ton in coproduction with Ars Musica, Théâtre de la Balsamine, Sturm und Klang, Forum des compositeurs/ Festival Loop and ART²

Supported by the Fédération Wallonie Bruxelles, Conseil de la Musique Contemporaine.

Willing to promote international artistic exchange on a european level, Fractales has decided to start a new project around binational collaboration between Belgium and Italy. Supported by le Forum des Compositeurs and Italian Institute of Culture Bruxelles, ensemble Fractales has selected 6 talented composers : Stephane Orlando, André Ristic and Gilles Doneux for Belgium; Maurizio Azzan, Gerardo Gozzi and Gianni Bozzola for Italy. Fractales invites you to a night of creation, result of this collaboration : rich in discoveries, exchanges and contrasts.