For its 27th edition, entitled Ecce Robo, ARCHIPEL - today's music festival invites ASTRAGALE ZENON and LES SOULIERS to the Geneva Museum of Art and History.

On March 15, do not miss the opening night of the festival that will take place at the Museum of Art and History as part of Afterwork # 15 - rhythm and movement, where the museum opens its doors until 22h and we will offer many surprises with the works of the collection.

• ARCHIPEL - today's music festival
• from March 15 to 25, 2018
• download the program (5.5 MB)
• works exhibited : LES SOULIERS et ASTRAGALE ZÉNON
• opening evening : Afterwork#15 at the Museum of Art and History, Thursday, March 15 from 18:00 to 22:00
• works visible from March 16 to 25, from 11:00 to 17:30. Closed on monday 19.
• free entrance
• Museum of Art and History - rue Charles-Galland 2 - 1206 Geneva, SWITZERLAND

This Saturday, March 11, for NUITNUMERIQUE # 14 in Reims, Boris Filanovsky and I will embark on a long adventure with LA MACHINE FLEUVE. Instead of playing as a 60-minute concert with the audience sitting in his chair from start to finish, we will perform a long 7 hours performance !!!! The public will be free to enter and leave, and each one will be able to follow his itinerary between the different proposals of the festival.

I assure you, 7 hours of cycling, this is not exceptional and does not worry me in any measure. It's the time i take to do 130-140 km and I often ride for more than 200 km. No, what worries me the most is to do 7 hours of bike without moving, locked in a concert hall: no small birds to attract the eye, no wind to dry salted skin and especially neither curves nor reliefs that allow to play on the bike, to change position and rhythm. There, it will be necessary to be in charge all the time. You can not afford free wheeling, you have to pedal all the time and there are not many possibilities to change position on the bike. And despite my imperial saddle with central recess, I am very afraid of numbness in the perineum ....

In any case, it fits perfectly into the theme of the festival:

Kinεstezi or physical sensitivity and consciousness of movement.
This year, we question the notion of the body, its movements, or control and mastery. The journey of the digital night invites you to immerse yourself entirely in the works proposed. The body and its movements are at the center of the process of creation; It becomes a trigger or revealer of the work. Facing it, the spectator will be able to feel its intensity and the induced energy.


> LA MACHINE FLEUVE performance for 20 music boxes and 1 bicycle
> NUITNUMERIQUE# 14 Kinεstezi
> 11 March 2017, from 6 pm to 1 pm
> Free entrance
> Saint-Exupéry Digital Cultural Center
> Chaussée Bocquaine Esplanade André Malraux - 51100 Reims FRANCE

From 7 to 11 February the 6 autonomous robots of Astragale Zénon are invited to walk in the Safra'numériques festival in Amiens.

> Safra'numeric festival (on facebook)
> 7-11 February 2017
> Le Safran, 3 rue Georges Guynemer, 80080 Amiens (FR)
> Complete program on the site of the cultural center Le Safran of the city of Amiens

For its 7th édition of its exhibition festival, Chemins d'Art en Armagnac invited me to create an original and monumental work for the Cour Salvandy in Condom - Gers. After visiting the place, I have proposed to make a new project noted in my notebook: ARTICLE 28, a monumental cross erected in a public space, accompanied by the text of Article 28 of the Law of Separation of the Churches and the State...


> ARTICLE 28
> Chemins d'Art en Armagnac 4 artits, 4 heritage sites and 4 weekends
> Salvandy Center, rue St Exupéry - 32100 Condom - France
> opening : Friday, May 27, at 18:00 in Abbaye de Flaran - Valence-sur-Baïse - France
> exhibition : from May 28 to June 19, 2016
> event in Salvandy Center : Saturday June 18 at 17h, musical interlude with the Ambrosia Choir, under the direction of Frédéric Bétous
> free access
> guides on the place : Friday, Saturday and Sunday, from 14:00 to 20:00
> download the PDF booklet festival

You can also discover the work of Delphine Renault at the church of Heux (Larroque-sur-l'Osse), Aurélie Meyer at the church of Luzanet (Montréal-du-Gers) and Armelle Caron at Hôtel Castel Pierre (Lagraulet-du-Gers).

To keep fit at the end of summer, Boris Filanovsky and I were invited by the festival MIKROMUSIK to play our LA MACHINE FLEUVE - Franco-Russian concert and sport for 1 bicycle and 20 music boxes in Berlin August 28 19:00.

> MIKROMUSIK - experimental music and sound art festival
> from 26 au 30 August - Berlin (DE)
> LA MACHINE FLEUVE
> August 28, 2015 at 19:00
> Duration : 1:20
> ELISABETH-KIRCHE - Invalidenstraße 3 - 10115 Berlin (DE)
> Price : concert 8/12€ , day pass 12/15€
> Download the program (pdf in German)

Artists and musicians of the festival : AMM - John Tilbury, Eddie Prevost, A-Trio - Mazen Kerbaj, Sharif Sehnaoui, Raed Yassin, John Burnside & Amy Shelton & Klaus Buhlert, Johnny Chang, Erik Drescher, Tony Elieh, Ensemble 2e2m, Arno Fabre & Boris Filanovsky, Francesco Filidei, Stefano Gervasoni, Jean-Luc Hervé, Dmitri Kourliandski, Fabien Lévy, Luigi Nono, Michelle O’ Rourke, Karen Power, Quatuor Diotima, Rishin Singh, Walter Smetak & Gustavo Alfaix.

LA MACHINE FLEUVE is supported by the Ville de Toulouse, the Région Midi-Pyrénées and the Théâtre Le Hangar.

Tags : la machine fleuve, concert, componium, berlin