Festival d'Automne
Théâtre des Abbesses
Rue des Abbesses 31, 75018 Paris, France
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PROGRAMME
Jennifer Walshe
SOME THINKING & FEELING
(World premiere, co-commissioned by Warsaw Autumn, Festival d’Automne in Paris and Contrechamps) for voice, analogue voice, synthesiser and experimental brass ensemble
CAST
Jennifer Walshe, composition and voice
Ragnar Árni Ólafsson, video
Jean-Baptiste Bosshard, sound engineer
Ensemble Contrechamps :
Noëlle Reymond, electric double bass
Simon Aeschimann, electric guitar
Antoine Françoise, keyboard
Thierry Debons, drums
Anne Bassand, harp
Susanne Peters, flute
Laurent Bruttin, clarinet
Arthur Escriva, trumpet
Charles Pierron, horn
Pierre-Stéphane Meugé, saxophone
Serge Bonvalot, tuba
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Some Thinking & Feeling
Some Thinking & Feeling
JENNIFER WALSHE
An unclassifiable concert-performance, straddling the real and the virtual
Dublin-based Jennifer Walshe, described as “the most original compositional voice to emerge from Ireland in the last 20 years” (The Irish Times), is a major figure in contemporary art. SOME THINKING & FEELING is a vast archive of artistic research on AI and sentience, in which the artist explores the porous boundaries between biology and the virtual - from historical automata inspired by Hoffmann to contemporary machine learning networks, and from affective AI figures to advances in robotics. Written for her voice and the Ensemble Contrechamps (percussion, woodwinds, brass), her new work draws from this archive, in light of the most recent scientific and philosophical advances.