musical and scientific theatre
CREATED on 28 September 2024 as part of the Musica festival in Strasbourg
with Daniele Schön (cello, spoken voice), Benjamin Dupé (live electronics, spoken voice)
and the active participation of spectators solicited during the performance
conception, music, dramaturgy and direction Benjamin Dupé | associate researcher Daniele Schön
sound and technical manager Julien Frénois
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The Prediction of Oscillations is an unclassifiable form, an unidentified stage and musical object, the fruit of a meeting between composer and director Benjamin Dupé and neuroscience researcher Daniele Schön. Widely acclaimed when it premiered at the Musica festival in Strasbourg, the show weaves together scientific discourse on the workings of our brains, contemporary musical creation and original theatrical situations with a subtle sense of balance. Imbued with humour, a desire to share and poetry, the performance eschews any didactic spirit to combine sensibility with knowledge, playfulness with discourse, and so create joyful spaces of resonance. From the history of cerebral metaphors to laboratory experiments transposed to the stage and requiring audience participation, not forgetting the importance of chance in scientific research, The Prediction of Oscillations questions our representation of the brain and in particular our unfortunate tendency to regard it as a super-computer. Contrary to this ready-made thinking dictated by the tech and AI industries, another neural theory emerges, a musical theory in essence, made up of oscillations, synchronisations and predictions. It’s a new way of looking at things that opens up as many perspectives on who we are as it does new gestures and new artistic interactions.
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Production : Comme je l’entends, les productions | Coproduction : Festival Musica, Strasbourg, Vélo théâtre années n+1 – scène conventionnée pour le théâtre d’objet et le croisement des arts et sciences, Apt| Support : Maison de la Musique Contemporaine, Spedidam | Residence : laboratoire PRISM – CNRS Marseille
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