Allēlōn
Motoco, Mulhouse, December 4, 2024, in partnership with the Météo Festival
18h
Free entrance - reservations online
Allēlōn [/aˈli.lon/] :
ancient Greek, one-another, one-another.
This concept, which is partially untranslatable, embodies the notions of interdependence and reciprocity in exchange. It gave rise to the French word allélopathie, meaning the ability of plants to communicate through biochemical interactions.
A solo performance born out of a collective work initiated by Olivier Duverger Houpert, a saxophonist studying for a doctorate in musical interpretation and creation at the Collège Glarean (Strasbourg/Freiburg), Allēlōn is the result of several years of research, encounters, and experimentation.
Olivier, assisted by sound engineer Maïlys Trucat, performs three works created in collaboration with Nan Zhang, Stéphane Clor, and Sérgio Rodrigo, which combine composition and improvisation, meticulous elaboration, and the thrill of the moment. The result is a sound experience in which the improviser is only the visible emergence of an entire creative ecosystem. His musical identity is affirmed as the fruit of multiplicity, of encounter, of the other.
Contrary to the monolithic and individualistic identities that poison our relationships and societies, our mode of creation offers desirable, poetic futures, turned towards otherness.
photo : Pierre Chinellato
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Artistic director & performance
Olivier Duverger Houpert
Composers
Nan Zhang · Stéphane Clor · Sérgio Rodrigo
Stage director
Romain Gneouchev
Technique
Sound · Maïlys Trucat
Lights and stage management · Lino Pourquié
photo : Morgan Gabelle
Note of intent
Having always been interested in the spaces between things, since 2021 I have been exploring the intersection between composition and improvisation. Like others before me, I was intrigued by the relationship between these practices. I wanted to explore—even explode—their boundaries. Through my research, encounters, and experiments, I was gradually joined in my first creation by artists with different backgrounds and diverse practices.
Allēlōn appeared to us as a kind of creative ecosystem: a living system in which individualities enrich each other to form a whole that transcends them. Allēlōn emerges from our encounters, our respective practices, our common or personal concerns, and our shared reflections and intuitions. As the only instrumentalist on stage, I represent the emergence of this multiplicity, questioning the way in which relationships of otherness singularize our individual identities.
During the experimental phase with these creators, who did not know each other, I circulated everyone's ideas in each other's work and in my own playing. On the one hand, there were the distortions and micro-polyrhythms of Sérgio Rodrigo, the poetic cartography, sometimes bordering on silence, of Stéphane Clor, and the DIY* sound machinery of Nan Zhang. On the other, my improvisations, my music, between virtuosity and fragility, exaltation and meditation, control and performative trance. These three pieces make up the Allēlōn program and may each be the subject of a dedicated concert in the future.
The audience is welcomed by an acousmatic creation by Maïlys Trucat, the show's sound designer. They are invited to wander through the space where the various installations are displayed, visible to all, like an opening of our creative laboratory. The audience moves around, subtly guided in an organic space. They create their own sound and musical experience, crafted by meticulous sound design.
From the self to the collective, from the collective to our environment, Allēlōn embraces modes of creation that respond to the urgent need to invent new relationships with each other and with the world for our future. Through this multifaceted, sprawling project, we want to reveal the interconnections that bring us to life together.
photo : Morgan Gabelle
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