Le Grand Soir Numérique

We are kicking off our performing arts series with another edition of Le Grand Soir Numérique, a momentous evening of multidisciplinary performances. This year, Franck Vigroux, Kurt d’Haeseleer and the Italian group SCHNITT have new sounds and images in store, and will even use audience interaction as an audiovisual instrument!

For the past several years, Ensemble intercontemporain, Philharmonie de Paris and Biennale Némo have been putting on Le Grand Soir Numérique, which has grown to become a classic on the event calendar. And we’re overjoyed to open the performing arts series at Biennale Némo with this year’s edition!

Alongside two spatialized sound experiences from the music research institute IRCAM and Ensemble intercontemporain, conducted by Léo Margue, we are rounding out the programme with two performances in true Biennale Némo style, which pair digital arts and interactivity.

Franck Vigroux’s incisive electronics and Kurt d’Haeseleer’s live video performance combine to make The Island a spectacular mental journey through places—valleys and the titular islands—destined to be submerged. In ScanAudience, the duo SCHNITT scans the public in real time to gather the data—body shapes and clothing colour and materials—used to generate the sound and visual elements.

Programme

Impro ex Machina, performance for instruments and electronics (new work)
Yan Maresz: Metallics, for trumpet and electronics
Jug Markovic: Concerto de chambre n°2, for twelve instruments
Sofia Avramidou: Géranomachie, for large ensemble and electronics (commissioned by Ensemble intercontcmporain and IRCAM – Centre Pompidou; new work)
SCHNITT / Gianluca Sibaldi / Marco Monfardini: ScanAudience, interactive audiovisual performance
Franck Vigroux / Kurt d’Haeseleer: The Island, audiovisual performance
Co-produced by Philharmonie de Paris and Ensemble intercontemporain, in partnership with IRCAM – Centre Pompidou.

Image Ⓒ Franck Vigroux / Kurt d’Haeseleer : The Island. Photo: Quentin Chevrier