Il se trouve que les oreilles n'ont pas de paupières (prélude)

Weaving the words of Pascal Quignard and the notes of Benjamin Dupé's composition, this show is at once a concert and a reflection on music. Playing with the oscillation between listening and understanding, a polyphonic and playful mechanism appears, creating effects of interferences, reactivity, detachment, humour, dizziness, enthusiasm, power... To the depth of the text, erudite and sensitive, responds the architecture of the music. To its surprising form, between meditation, conference, speech, tale, and confession, respond the virtuosity of the musicians and ability of the sound to change from one moment to the next. To the title La Haine de la musique (Hatred of Music), the composer responds the only way he knows how: by making music that echoes, that moves deeply. Because as Pascal Quignard writes, “it just so happens that ears don't have eyelids...”

With Pierre Baux (actor), Garth Knox (musician, violon alto)

Conception, music, dramaturgy and direction Benjamin Dupé
Text after the book La Haine de la musique by Pascal Quignard, Éditions Calmann-Lévy (1996)
Collaboration to the direction Pierre Baux
Collaboration to the music Garth Knox
Collaboration to the scenography Olivier Thomas
Collaboration to the music IRCAM Manuel Poletti

Production Comme je l'entends, les productions
Coproduction SACD-Festival d'Avignon
Avec le soutien de la DRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, de la Région Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, de la Sacem, du CENQUATRE-Paris, du Conseil général des Bouches-du-Rhône et de la Spedidam Benjamin Dupé est artiste associé au Phénix Scène nationale de Valenciennes