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Chant 2:
Le murmure du vivant
(The whisper of the living)

Immersive experience involving music, dance and visual arts.

/ creation in progress

We spontaneously associate silence with a total absence of sound, yet such a thing does not exist in the living. As long as there is life, there is sound. Therefore, should silence - and noise - be understood as an irreducibly subjective discrimination? A collective constant emerges though : the more our attention is absorbed by our sensory experience, the more our sense of silence increases. Silence can then be understood as a state of availability and listening, beyond the boundaries of our usual perceptions. It is therefore the very act of listening that is at the heart of this project, or how the quality of our listening transforms our understanding of the world.

What is said in silence? How can we become capable of this liminal perception? And how can we awaken it in the audience?

Listening is not a musician prerogative, but rather an ethical stance, particularly necessary in the face of the challenges our society is currently confronted to. Indeed, exploring silence implies to induce ourselves to an aesthetic of encounter. It means questioning our relationship to others, but also to time and to the void. It means to open ourselves to resonance and mystery. It also means revaluing the non-spectacular: "Total presence turns the world into a miracle" (Louis Lavelle).

Le Murmure du Vivant is a multidisciplinary ecosystem where sound, movement, and visual elements are organically interwoven in order to invite the audience to a transformative experience: listening differently in order to think differently.

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WITH

Alexandra Templier | artistic director, producer, vocal artist

Audrey Bergeron | dance artist

Ariane Dubé-Lavigne | dance artist

Marijoe Foucher | dance artist

Vanessa Massera | musician (electroacoustics)

Hélène Messier | dance artist

Annie Gagnon | rehearsal counsellor

Ricardo Morejon | sound designer

Marie-Hélène Bellavance | scenograph

Other artists involved in the research process :