L’éléphant s’évapore
Based on the literary works of Haruki Murakami
September /2024
Residence – Périscope (Lyon)
12 – 15 november /2024
Residence – Théâtre Sainte-Marie-d’en-Bas (C.I.M.N / Les Détours de Babel)
30 november /2024
Creation – Théâtre de Valence / Jazz sur le Grill
2025
Dans la Nuit
Ciné-concert
2026
PRESENTATION
Following the call for tenders launched in 2023, Jessica Martin Maresco (vocals) and Samuel Ber (drums) are joining the La Forge team. Their arrival follows that of Richard Bonnet (guitar), a member of the collective who has been at work for a year. With the recruitment of these three new musicians and co-directors to its team, La FORGE is moving on and reaffirming its determination, and with the creation of its new orchestra, is hitting the CLOU :
Le CLOU is the Orchestre Utopique, the tutti of the new team, the ensemble that will carry out the collective’s aims, spearheading the pursuit of its musical research, a key element representing its expanded identity.
Le CLOU will be our tool, our pocket orchestra. From now on, we’ll be doing in-depth work, punctuated by residencies, to test our writing, make our arrangements sound good and stubbornly seek the alchemy of our sound, like the good blacksmiths that we are. A veritable multi-purpose orchestra, Le CLOU will be able to respond to a wide range of requests and make radical choices.
L’éléphant s’évapore (based on the work of Haruki Murakami)
From the outset, and with the same enthusiasm, we are proposing a project based on Murakami.
Haruki Murakami is surely the most music-loving of writers. His work abounds in musical references, and the author almost never works without listening to one of his 10,000 vinyl albums. Many writers have testified to their often intimate relationship with music. Its abstraction, beauty, spirituality and energy are all sources of inspiration.
Dans la Nuit – Un film de Charles Vanel
In the process of creation
Considered the last silent film in French cinema, “Dans la nuit” is Charles Vanel’s only foray into the role of director. Dans la nuit was shot on location with local people in the Rhone Alpes region.
With a gap of almost a century, our intention is to make this ciné-concert an entity fused with Vanel’s work, where images and music complement and enrich each other, to perpetuate the relevance of this masterpiece of silent cinema, and to make this moment the discovery of today’s creative music.
