As the glaciers melt, new territories emerge. New ecosystems are emerging in these areas freed by the ice. How can we protect these last almost untouched areas of the planet before the lobbies get hold of them? Scientists are already working on this, contributing their expertise to the protection and conservation of these highly natural areas. In view of the threats weighing on these post-glacial ecosystems, and faced with the irresistible and resolutely optimistic emergence of life in these deglaciated regions, what is our artistic, poetic and sonic position?

Jacques Demierre and the musicians of the Ensemble Close-Up Contrechamps - a brand new participatory entity combining members of the Ensemble Contrechamps with instrumentalists from all horizons - are asking themselves this question and daring to find answers using their own resources. The creative process includes active participation by all: recordings of domestic sound materials, instrumental repartees echoing questions of civic responsibility, improvisation as a tool for listening and auralising composition, mobilisation of living and recorded memory through the use of audio scores. Jacques Demierre's composition, which mobilises a sound broadcasting system and a deployment of intrumentists in several groups distributed across the space of the Salle Communale de Plainpalais, will welcome personal and collective contributions, all in the service of a work that reflects a living world in constant transformation.

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Fig. 16 et 17
Représentation d’un corps résonnant [JD]
perturbé par diverses propriétés de
la piste sonore: jacques_demierre.mp3
Jacques Demierre