3pm – Musical instrument making (children)
(Workshop from age 7)
Wild lutherie consists in making instruments from what we find (or what we look for) in our garbage cans. It’s part of a zero-waste approach that runs counter to consumer society and its many environmental impacts.
Inspired by the low-tech movement and artists such as Staff Benda Bilili, Konono N°1 and Kokoko, the collective’s musicians teach participants of all ages and abilities to transform waste materials into string, wind and percussion instruments. These workshops introduce participants to creative recycling and tool handling.
4.30pm – “Faster, Higher, Stronger, Together ! Sports musicians, dancers: are we all performers?”
Moderated by Tristan Labouret, with Amaury Coeytaux (violinist), Ilektra Platiopoulou (mezzo-soprano), Guy Accoceberry (rugby player with the French national team between 1994 and 1997) and Jeanne Azoulay (dancer with Compagnie Chriki’z).
To mark the passage of the Olympic torch through Bordeaux, Vibre! aims to question the notion of performance and break down the barriers between music, dance and sport, disciplines which share more in common than we might imagine.
Does preparation for an International Competition like the one in Bordeaux bring the string quartet closer to a team sport? How can we cultivate the conditions for expressing what we call “inspiration”, “genius” or “French flair”?
By questioning our guests’ relationship with the body and their mental preparation, we’ll find out whether musicians, dancers and athletes are all performers.
6pm – CONCERT: The Curious Bards & Ilektra Platiopoulou
Sarah Van Oudenhove, viola da gamba
Jean-Christophe Morel, Irish cistre
Louis Capeille, triple harp
Bruno Harlé, flutes
Alix Boivert, baroque violin
Ilektra Platiopoulou, mezzo-soprano (guest artist)
Since 2015, The Curious Bards has brought together five musicians who love traditional music from the Gaelic and Celtic worlds. Five instrumentalists from the world of early music and the prestigious conservatoires of Lyon, Paris and Basel.
Each of them has been integrating traditional Irish and Scottish music into his or her practice and career for a number of years.
An ensemble that is rigorous in its research, innovative and creative in its musical intent. Modern-day bards with a spirit of discovery and a demanding practice, they create a sound marked by the authenticity, warmth and contagious energy of Gaelic music.
Their new programme, ‘Indiscretion’, is the sound of the Celtic and Gaelic soul as never before!
Singer Ilektra Platiopoulou will be performing two songs in Gaelic, in which the texts are typical 18th-century Irish poems (poems called aisling). These songs are interspersed with instrumental pieces based on very specific Celtic dance styles. These include the Scottish strathspey, with its strong character reminiscent of the characteristic style of Scottish dances, the Irish slip-jigs with their wild rhythm, and the hornpipes, which were particularly popular and used by Handel himself!
