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Urbaphonix
A street symphony
Creation 2012
- Moving concert
- Duration: 45 min
- Capacity: 300 people
- All audiences
Without a word, all of a sudden, a moving five-person crew enters into the soundscape. These explorers play, live and on-site, with the technology, sounds, objects, and people they encounter.
Sorts of “Street-Jockeys,” without turntables or synthesizers, the musicians of Urbaphonix listen to their sonic surroundings and compose using only what is already all around us but what no one listens to: the mechanical sounds of traffic, the hums of heating ducts and air conditioning vents, bodies, conversations, and, especially, urban furnishings, which serve both as the stage and as a limitless source of instruments for this instant theater. In order to create something never heard before, unpredictable, and enchanting, their talent lies in their ability to make us hear what is already there, but what no one noticed, because no one thought to listen.
Disciples of Luigi Russolo, Pierre Schaeffer and Murray Schafer, they faithfully apply John Cage’s advice: “If a sound disturbs you, listen to it!”
Urbaphonix has received the support of the French Ministry of Culture, SPEDIDAM, ADAMI, le Moulin Fondu, l’Abattoir, le CCAS – Activités sociales de l’énergie, La Paperie, la Coopérative de rue et de cirque, le Parapluie, Déambulation Network and le Printemps des Rues (Paris).
The company recommends that you listen with headphones to get the most out of the sound work.
History of performances
2021: SPOT Festival – Vilnius (LIT)
2020: Journée d’été – La Queue-lez-Yvelines (78 – FR), Le mois d’août de la Culture – Paris (FR), Rencontres philosophiques de Langres
2019: Fête de la Ville – Mitry-Mory (77 – FR), La Rue est à Amiens Festival – Amiens (80 – FR), European Heritage Days – Nîmes (30 – FR)
2018: ‘Usines Babcock’ street’s inauguration – La Courneuve (93 – FR), Festival à Contre-Courant – Avignon (84 – FR), Oignies (62 – FR), Festival des Vendanges – Bagneux (92 – FR)
2017: Le Deux Pièces Cuisine – Blanc-Mesnil (93, FR), Geneva, private event (SWITZERLAND), Bielefeld (GERMANY), Holzminden Internationa Streettheater Festival (GERMANY), Klick Festival – Jena (GERMANY), Contemporary music concert season – La Chaux-de-Fonds (SWITZERLAND), Metropolis – Copenhaguen (DENMARK), CECB – Le Bourget (93, FR), Constellations de Metz (57, FR), Bourg-en-Bresse Theater (01, FR), Tandem – Madrid (SPAIN)
2016: Croisements festival in Wuhan, Changsha and Chongqing (China), Festival les Arts dans la Rue – Strasbourg (France – 67), Visiones Sonoras Festival – Morelia (Mexico), Cervantino Festival – Guanajuato (Mexico), Universidad Autonoma de Mexico – Mexico City (Mexico), Les Jeunes et les Enfants d’abord – La Ville-du-Bois (France – 92)
2015: Festival Starke Stücke – Frankfurt and Darmstadt (Germany), Festival FACTO – Lunéville (FR), Erstein (FR), Festival Fééries – Bourgoin-Jallieu (FR), Festival Teatro a Corte – Torino (Italy), Chamonix (FR), Paris – La Défense : changez de point de vue, Les Usines Boinot – National Center for Street Arts – Niort (FR)
2014: La Paperie – Angers (France), “Résonnances Plurielles” – Le 9-9bis – Oignies (France), Festival les Insolites – Massy (France), Festival Saint-Ouen Traversée d’Arts – Saint-Ouen (France), Festival Un Dimanche chez Robert – Sainte-Gemmes le Robert (France), Festival Hors Champs – L’Arc Scène Nationale – Le Creusot (France), Festival L’Humour des Notes – Haguenau (France), Festival Parade(s) – Nanterre (France), Festival Et 20 l’Eté – Paris, Pforzheimer Musik und Theater Festival – Pforzheim (Germany), Festival Les Jeux du Castrum – Yvernon-les-Bains (Switzerland)
2013: ZAT (Montpellier, France), L’Entre-Sort de Furies (Châlons-en-Champagne – France), Festival Les Rues Joyeuses (Tourcoing, France), Festival Les 3 éléphants (Laval, France), Tous dehors ! La Passerelle Theater’s festival (Gap – France), Alles muss raus! festival (Kaiserslautern, Germany), Ermont (Ermont, France), Festival Aire(S) de Fêtes (Vanves – France), Festival RenaissanceS (Bar-le-Duc, France), Festival La Strada (Graz, Austria), Festival Les préalables d’Aurillac (Aurillac, France), Festival d’Aurillac IN (Aurilac, France), European Days of Heritage in Longwy (France), Festival Festin de Pierre (St Jean de Vedas – France), Conservatoire d’Aubervilliers (France), Festival La Grain de la Voix (Pau), City of Cestas (France), Festival des Musiques Démesurées (Clermont-Ferrand – France)
2012: Festival Les Arts dans la rue (Châtillon, France), Arcueil’s aqueduct (Arcueil, France), Pantin (France), Professional college Léonard de Vinci (Bagneux, France), Le Boulon (Vieux Condé, France), Holiday Centers CCAS (France), Le Fourneau – Habour’s Thursdays (Brest, France), Festival Chalon dans la rue IN (Chalon sur Saône, France), Coopérative 2r2c (Paris, France), Festival Onze Bouge (Paris, France), Festival Nocturbaines (Paris, France), Festival Les Rencontres d’Ici et d’Ailleurs – (Noisy-le-Sec, France), Fête de l’utopie sociale (Guise, France), Festival Printemps des Rues (Paris, France), UPMC – Pierre et Marie Curie University (Paris, France)
The team
Artistic direction
: Michel RisseWith
: Jérôme Bossard, Damien Boutonnet, Gonzalo Campo, Julien Reboux, Gaëlle SalomonTechnical direction
: Renaud BiriStaging collaboration
: Martine RateauCostumes
: Fabienne DesflechesConstruction
: Achil Bras
Urbaphonix has received the support of the French Ministry of Culture, SPEDIDAM, ADAMI, le Moulin Fondu, l’Abattoir, le CCAS – Activités sociales de l’énergie, La Paperie, la Coopérative de rue et de cirque, le Parapluie, Déambulation Network and le Printemps des Rues (Paris).