The Prediction of Oscillations

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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press review

«A wonderful surprise awaits us on Saturday morning at the POKOP with composer Benjamin Dupé and scientist and cellist Daniele Schön. La Prédiction des oscillations is a carefully balanced, enjoyable and instructive performance of ‘experimental musical and scientific theatre’. Music, sound experiments and scientific information are distilled with humour by the two performers in a warm and contagious joviality. (…) There is poetry in this science. » Guillaume Kosmicki – ResMusica

« On the sound stage of this experimental laboratory, the atmosphere is relaxed, friendly and serious. It’s ‘Stroop’s task’ that will hit the nail on the head, amaze and conclude with the highly imaginative theory of avalanches. A fine introduction to the science of music for neophytes eager to learn more and, above all, to become mice in such an inventive laboratory. We already knew that ‘ears don’t have eyelids’, now we may not ‘hate music’ but have the nerve for neurological experimentation. » Geneviève Charras – L’Amuse-danse

tour
>> Monday 14 July 2025 | 19:00 | Auditorium de la Collection Lambert - Avignon

>> Tuesday 15 July 2025 | 19:00 | Auditorium de la Collection Lambert - Avignon

>> Wednesday 16 July 2025 | 19:00 | Auditorium de la Collection Lambert - Avignon

>> Thursday 17 July 2025 | 19:00 | Auditorium de la Collection Lambert - Avignon

>> Saturday 4 October 2025 | 18:00 | Espace 233 – Scènes et cinés - Istres

>> Tuesday 18 November 2025 | 19:00 | Friche La Belle de mai – petit plateau - Marseille

diffusion
• 4 October 2024 | 11:00 & 9:00 pm | Vélo Théâtre - Apt
• 30 September 2024 | 10:00 | La Pokop - Strasbourg
• 28 September 2024 | 11:00 & 5:00pm | La Pokop - Strasbourg