Never take half-measures: that’s the secret of the Ictus ensemble when it comes to revealing to us the rich depths of contemporary music.

For an exceptional evening, the Grand Hall, the Foyer, the staircases, and myriad other spaces throughout the Lille Opera will resonate to the thousand and one sounds of the “City Fantastic”, as hailed by the artists of the futurist movement at the dawn of the 20^th century. With the Cris de Paris choir and several other specially invited guests, the musicians of Ictus have concocted a programme that recreates the musical intoxication of the city: the sounds of machines, the “beauty of speed”, the rumbling of automobiles, the clamour of the crowd.

Excerpts from historic scores such as Edgar Varese’s Ionisation or George Antheil’s Ballet Mécanique mix and mingle with a Steve Reich classic (Drumming), intriguing sonic poems (Kurt Schwitters), and contemporary works by young composers. The group pulls out all the stops for this unique evening, even taking over the Bar of the Rotunda to offer you a banquet of futuristic tapas: an explosion of savoury tastes is guaranteed!

FUTURIST EVENING IN 5 PICTURES

Program :

MAO Ircam/Roque Rivas
Coproduction Le Fresnoy-Studio national des arts contemporains and Ircam-Centre Pompidou, 2008.
With the compliciity of LaM, Lille Métropole Musée d’art moderne, d’art contemporain et d’art brut.

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PHASE I CRY OUT !
Clément Janequin (XVIe s.), Voulez Ouyr les Cris de Paris
Arthur Lavandier (création), Fureurs Héroïques

PHASE II BALLET MÉCANIQUE
Edgar Varèse (1929), Ionisation
Beat Furrer (2012), Enigma
George Antheil (1924), Ballet Mécanique

PHASE III RUMOURS AND HOLLERINGS
John Cage (1940), Once Upon a Time, extract from Living Room Music
Iannis Xenakis (1967), Nuits
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Bombardamento di Adrianopoli
Kurt Schwitters (1922/1932), Sonate in Urlauten

PHASE IV MUTANTS !
Maurillio Cacciatore (2012), Tamonontamo
Roque Rivas, Carlos Franklin (2008), Mutations of Matter
Eva Reiter, Kounter
Clinton Mc Callum (1993), April Eighteenth
Frédéric Pattar, This is not a crescendo
Morten John Olsen, No Heavy Trucking
Alexander Schubert, Bird Snapper

PHASE V SILENT MOVIES
Viking Eggeling (1921), La Symphonie diagonale
Eugene Deslaw (1927), La Marche des Machines
Hans Richter (1926), Filmstudie
Man Ray (1927), Emak Bakia
Fernand Léger, Dudley Murphy (1924), Le Ballet mécanique

Futurist Tapas on sale at the Rotonde Bar.
With the collaboration of Meert.

With

Ictus, ensemble in residency at Lille Opera
Conductor George-Elie Octors
Les Cris de Paris
Conductor Geoffroy Jourdain
Michaël-Schmid (d’Ictus) bass flute
Fabian Fiorini piano
Sound machines by Luigi Russolo, rebuilt by Pietro Verardo

29 SEPTEMBER > 13 JANUARY
AT LAM, VILLENEUVE D’ASCQ
EXHIBITION THE MAGIC CITY
discovering several urban myths of the period between WWI and WW2
Reduced-ticket price for the holders of Ballets mécaniques ticket.
T 03 20 19 68 68 / www.musee-lam.fr

EVENINGS OF PERFORMANCE
DR JEKYLL ET MR MOUSE
by BERGER & BERGER
Discover in the Rotonde the dazzling work of the plastic artists and the architects Berge & Berger.

WE 5 DECEMBER 6PM
BABEBIBOBU
Les Cris de Paris / Conductor Geoffroy Jourdain :
Vocal music without words by Aperghis, Ligeti, Schinstine, Fedele, Scelsi, Pärt… 
This concert is part of the Wednesday Concerts Series.

MA 2 AVRIL 14H30 / for schools only
AMERICANA
Concert commentated on by Jean-Luc Plouvier
With the soloists of Ictus.

THU 3, FR 4 JANUARY 2PM and 6PM
FUTURIST SOUNDS
An introduction to contemporary music for the 6-12 year old with Ictus.