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Chiche?! 

An spectacular musical performance that stages an attempt to break free from the all-digital, all-electronic world — and even from electricity itself…

Chiche — a familiar French interjection meaning “let’s do it!” or “I’m up for the challenge!”; as an adjective, chiche can also describe someone or something modest, stingy, or with limited means.

Is it still possible to innovate, in any field, without using computers — or even electricity? 

That’s the crazy challenge we’re taking on: setting out to create new sounds, new languages, and new music while conveying an ecological message — making our approach a model of sustainability in its own right. No digital technology whatsoever. No electronics. Not even electricity… Dare we?

A perpetual, site-specific, and ecological creation

Chiche?! is a sound-based, poetic, and ecological performance that takes on the challenge of freeing itself from all things digital—and even from electricity—through a wandering, site-specific form imagined for each location.
Chiche! as in frugal, economical, modest; and chiche? as in a dare, an adventure, an unknown path.
The creation draws inspiration from the performance context itself, resulting in a fundamentally living form of art—an experience that is constantly renewed. No two performances are alike; more importantly, each one only makes sense and can only exist in the place where it is performed.
Chiche?! is aimed at audiences of all generations, including very young listeners, bringing them together—without barriers of language or culture—in a shared, sensitive, and attentive listening experience. Behind the comical scenes and the nonsense humor of the situations and characters lies an initiatory journey that transforms the way we listen and opens us to the sound ecology of our environment.

As in every Decor Sonore production, the staging of listening should lead to this revelation: we can hear, we can hear again, we can finally hear!