Chewing Gum Silence

  • Musical show

Antonin Tri Hoang and Samuel Achache

France / Creation on 2018

From 6 years old

At one time or another, we all have a little tune that runs through our heads. In German, there's even a rather colourful word to describe the phenomenon: Ohrwurm, ‘earworm’. Fortunately, researchers at Reading University in England have discovered that you can get rid of them by chewing gum.

Chewing Gum Silence, Antonin Tri Hoang et Samuel Achache © Jean-Louis Fernandez

Presentation

For his musical Chewing Gum Silence, recreated with stage director Samuel Achache, Antonin Tri Hoang held workshops with schoolchildren in Seine-Saint-Denis, during which they worked on ‘little bits of tunes’ passed on by the young participants. The tunes are all the more touching because they have been distorted by the children's memories and vocal abilities. On stage, the musicians, Antonin Tri Hoang, pianist Jeanne Susin and drummer Thibault Perriard, play the roles of three sound archivists on a stage cluttered with boxes filled with the melodies of the world. Trying to organise their circulation, they make them appear and disappear in a great game of musical hide-and-seek.

Distribution

Conception Antonin Tri Hoang
Staging
Samuel Achache
Writing and collective composition with
Antonin Tri Hoang (saxophone, clarinettes, clavier), Thibault Perriard (voix, guitare acoustique, batterie), Jeanne Susin (voix, piano préparé, percussions) and Samuel Achache

Lights César Godefroy
Sound
Nicolas Widmer
Costumes Pauline Kieffer
Scenography Raffaëlle Bloch

Production and administration AlterMachine / Elisabeth Le Coënt and Erica Marinozzi

Production

Production La sourde
Coproductions
Les 2 scènes - Scène nationale de Besançon, Nouveau Théâtre de Montreuil – CDN, Festival d’Automne à Paris
With the support of CNM (Centre National Musique) and la SACEM
Support to the re-creation La vie brève - Théâtre de l’Aquarium (Paris).

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