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Oneohtrix Point Never + Valentina Magaletti
Again Live
Sound magician Daniel Lopatin, aka Oneohtrix Point Never, has been dreaming up prodigious synthetic epics since the late 2000s, drawing on the…
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Variations
Festival Variations
Free entry
music
Clément Vercelletto
L'engoulevent
Musée d'arts de Nantes
Clément Vercelletto is a sound artist and stage director. For this project he called on a luthier, Léo Maurel, to create a novel instrument: "l’engoulevent”. Borrowing…
Families
Festival Variations
Free entry
music
Noémi Büchi
Musée d'arts de Nantes
Noémi Büchi is a Swiss/French composer and sound artist that creates electronic, symphonic maximalism. Her music is defined by a delicate synthesis of textural rhythms…
Festival Variations
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music
Marie Davidson + Jessica Winter + Île de Garde
Stereolux
The most personal is often the most universal. This probably explains why Marie Davidson’s work resonates with so many. Born in Montreal, Canada, Marie is an electronic…
Festival Variations
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music
The Separatist Party + Farida Amadou
Pannonica
The Separatist Party is the latest album by Mike Reed. This highly anticipated album showcases Reed, Mike's unique blend of jazz and electronic music, creating a…
Festival Variations
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music
Maryanne Amacher
Glia by Contrechamps & Zwischentöne
Salons Mauduit
A key figure in contemporary music and a pioneer of electronic music, Maryanne Amacher made a name for herself in the 1960s for her sound installations and her research…
Festival Variations
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music
Amaro Freitas
Pannonica
From the slums of Recife in Brazil’s North-East to international jazz icon, Amaro Freitas has worked tirelessly to become the artist he is today. Gaining international…
Festival Variations
Free entry
music
Cole Pulice
Cole Pulice is an electroacoustic saxophonist, improviser, and composer based in Oakland, California. Cole's work blends saxophone and wind synth with live signal…
Festival Variations
Tickets
music
Sunn O))) + Goat
Sunn O))) returns to the live aspect in its core, original raw form. Founders/guitarists Stephen O’Malley & Greg Anderson will perform as a duo immersed in profound…
Festival Variations
soldout
music
Joep Beving
La Chapelle de l'Immaculée
Sensationon of the contemporary classical streaming world, Joep Beving returns to his solo piano roots. Inspired by ancient philosophy, Beving’s latest project is an…
Festival Variations
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music
Aïta Mon Amour + RUSNAM + Deena Abdelwahed
Shouka celebrates its 10th anniversary!
Trempo
Aïta Mon Amour is a duo made up of Widad Mjama and Khalil Epi. This project is the fruit of their fascination for the Aïta, a musical genre embodied by the Chikhates,…
Festival Variations
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music
Bruit Noir + Derby Derby
Bruit Noir is the current group of Pascal Bouaziz (the late Mendelson) where the singer improvises as a commentator on the contemporary world. Set to abrasive…
Festival Variations
Free entry
Debate
Valentina Magaletti
This meeting is an opportunity to talk to Valentina Magaletti, guest musician at Le Lieu unique, about her work as a percussionist, her many collaborations and her…
Festival Variations
Tickets
music
Radio Hito
La Chapelle de l'Immaculée
A multi-talented navigator, Zen My Nguyen has been developing unique sound projects for several years, trying to find the right link between a personal path and that of…
Festival Variations
Free entry
music
upsammy
With a keen ear for crystalline melody and intricate rhythm, her music sculpts a certain perpetuity and spatiality, sliding across tempo scales, while retaining an…
Festival Variations
Free entry
music
Clarissa Connelly
Born in Scotland, Clarissa Connelly relocated as a child to Denmark, where the cultural landscape has fuelled her creativity, though exploring the sacred sites,…
Festival Variations
Tickets
music
Faten Kanaan
La Chapelle de l'Immaculée
Brooklyn-based composer, musician, and producer Faten Kanaan uses counterpoint as a narrative tool to create music that is mysterious, smudgy, and deeply melodic. From…
Festival Variations
Free entry
music
Loto Retina
A live performance in which a semi-dancing chaos is composed with velocity and fantasy, inhabited by struck, scraped, caressed percussions and semi-humanoid…
Festival Variations
Tickets
music
Oneohtrix Point Never + Valentina Magaletti
Again Live
Sound magician Daniel Lopatin, aka Oneohtrix Point Never, has been dreaming up prodigious synthetic epics since the late 2000s, drawing on the melodies of the past to…
Festival Variations
Free entry
music
Abadir
With its syncopated rhythms and twirling percussion, Abadir plays with the Manqsoum tradition, drawing on its roots to bring it into a danceable urbanity: when Arab…
Festival Variations
Tickets
music
Pianoscape
Four pianists paint four sonic pictures evocative of vast wilderness. Harmonic canyons, echoes of plains and other landscapes punctuated by solitary refrains, pass by…
Festival Variations
Free entry
music
Soizic Lebrat & Aude Rabillon
Two solos, two autonomous electroacoustic pieces, the fruit of a meeting between two female composers from Nantes. In Tendre est l'instant qui se tend, Soizic Lebrat is…
Festival Variations
Tickets
music
Xavier Veilhan & Alexis Bertrand Tout l’univers
Tout l’univers
Conceived as a poetic experience, this show is a journey through the scales of matter, inspired by the history of science and the countless images that scientists have…
Festival Variations
Tickets
music
Bruce Brubaker
Eno Piano
La Chapelle de l'Immaculée
American pianist Bruce Brubaker offers a concert devoted entirely to the music of Brian Eno. Although he moves through styles and eras, Bruce Brubaker cultivates a…
Festival Variations
Free entry
music
Harrga
HARRGA (‘a burn’ in the Moroccan Darija dialect) is a duo formed by producer and philosopher Miguel Prado and experimental vocalist and improviser Dali de Saint Paul.…
Festival Variations
Free entry
music
ML Buch
In her compositional practice ML Buch sketches up her music in an almost architectural way. The raw material is generated through immersion in playing and assembling as…
Festival Variations
Tickets
music
Lonnie Holley + Julia Holter
Lonnie Holley, a self-taught artist with close ties to the art brut movement, is back on stage with his latest album, more pared-down than ever, eleven tracks on which…
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Olivier Martin-Salvan
Péplum médiéval
Welcome to the Middle Ages! With humour and ingenuity, Olivier Martin-Salvan dives into this mysterious era, rich in epics and courtly love. Inspired by tales of…
Families
Festival
Variations 2024
In partnership with the Fondation BNP Paribas, Le Lieu Unique, the centre for contemporary culture in Nantes, is organising an annual…
Festival Variations
Free entry
music
Clément Vercelletto
L'engoulevent
Musée d'arts de Nantes
Clément Vercelletto is a sound artist and stage director. For this project he called on a luthier, Léo Maurel, to create a novel instrument: "l’engoulevent”. Borrowing…
Families
Festival Variations
Free entry
music
Noémi Büchi
Musée d'arts de Nantes
Noémi Büchi is a Swiss/French composer and sound artist that creates electronic, symphonic maximalism. Her music is defined by a delicate synthesis of textural rhythms…
Festival Variations
Tickets
music
Marie Davidson + Jessica Winter + Île de Garde
Stereolux
The most personal is often the most universal. This probably explains why Marie Davidson’s work resonates with so many. Born in Montreal, Canada, Marie is an electronic…
Festival Variations
Tickets
music
The Separatist Party + Farida Amadou
Pannonica
The Separatist Party is the latest album by Mike Reed. This highly anticipated album showcases Reed, Mike's unique blend of jazz and electronic music, creating a…
Tickets
film
Deep Listening : The Story of Pauline Oliveros
A movie by Daniel Weintraub
Le Cinématographe
This film tells the story of Pauline Oliveros, a composer, performer, teacher, philosopher and pioneer of electronic music who left her mark on the history of…
Festival Variations
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music
Maryanne Amacher
Glia by Contrechamps & Zwischentöne
Salons Mauduit
A key figure in contemporary music and a pioneer of electronic music, Maryanne Amacher made a name for herself in the 1960s for her sound installations and her research…
Festival Variations
Tickets
music
Amaro Freitas
Pannonica
From the slums of Recife in Brazil’s North-East to international jazz icon, Amaro Freitas has worked tirelessly to become the artist he is today. Gaining international…
Festival Variations
Free entry
music
Cole Pulice
Cole Pulice is an electroacoustic saxophonist, improviser, and composer based in Oakland, California. Cole's work blends saxophone and wind synth with live signal…
Festival Variations
Tickets
music
Sunn O))) + Goat
Sunn O))) returns to the live aspect in its core, original raw form. Founders/guitarists Stephen O’Malley & Greg Anderson will perform as a duo immersed in profound…
Festival Variations
soldout
music
Joep Beving
La Chapelle de l'Immaculée
Sensationon of the contemporary classical streaming world, Joep Beving returns to his solo piano roots. Inspired by ancient philosophy, Beving’s latest project is an…
Festival Variations
Tickets
music
Aïta Mon Amour + RUSNAM + Deena Abdelwahed
Shouka celebrates its 10th anniversary!
Trempo
Aïta Mon Amour is a duo made up of Widad Mjama and Khalil Epi. This project is the fruit of their fascination for the Aïta, a musical genre embodied by the Chikhates,…
Festival Variations
Tickets
music
Bruit Noir + Derby Derby
Bruit Noir is the current group of Pascal Bouaziz (the late Mendelson) where the singer improvises as a commentator on the contemporary world. Set to abrasive…
Festival Variations
Free entry
Debate
Valentina Magaletti
This meeting is an opportunity to talk to Valentina Magaletti, guest musician at Le Lieu unique, about her work as a percussionist, her many collaborations and her…
Festival Variations
Tickets
music
Radio Hito
La Chapelle de l'Immaculée
A multi-talented navigator, Zen My Nguyen has been developing unique sound projects for several years, trying to find the right link between a personal path and that of…
Festival Variations
Free entry
music
upsammy
With a keen ear for crystalline melody and intricate rhythm, her music sculpts a certain perpetuity and spatiality, sliding across tempo scales, while retaining an…
Festival Variations
Free entry
music
Clarissa Connelly
Born in Scotland, Clarissa Connelly relocated as a child to Denmark, where the cultural landscape has fuelled her creativity, though exploring the sacred sites,…
Festival Variations
Tickets
music
Faten Kanaan
La Chapelle de l'Immaculée
Brooklyn-based composer, musician, and producer Faten Kanaan uses counterpoint as a narrative tool to create music that is mysterious, smudgy, and deeply melodic. From…
Festival Variations
Free entry
music
Loto Retina
A live performance in which a semi-dancing chaos is composed with velocity and fantasy, inhabited by struck, scraped, caressed percussions and semi-humanoid…
Festival Variations
Tickets
music
Oneohtrix Point Never + Valentina Magaletti
Again Live
Sound magician Daniel Lopatin, aka Oneohtrix Point Never, has been dreaming up prodigious synthetic epics since the late 2000s, drawing on the melodies of the past to…
Festival Variations
Free entry
music
Abadir
With its syncopated rhythms and twirling percussion, Abadir plays with the Manqsoum tradition, drawing on its roots to bring it into a danceable urbanity: when Arab…
Festival Variations
Tickets
music
Pianoscape
Four pianists paint four sonic pictures evocative of vast wilderness. Harmonic canyons, echoes of plains and other landscapes punctuated by solitary refrains, pass by…
Festival Variations
Free entry
music
Soizic Lebrat & Aude Rabillon
Two solos, two autonomous electroacoustic pieces, the fruit of a meeting between two female composers from Nantes. In Tendre est l'instant qui se tend, Soizic Lebrat is…
Festival Variations
Tickets
music
Xavier Veilhan & Alexis Bertrand Tout l’univers
Tout l’univers
Conceived as a poetic experience, this show is a journey through the scales of matter, inspired by the history of science and the countless images that scientists have…
Festival Variations
Tickets
music
Bruce Brubaker
Eno Piano
La Chapelle de l'Immaculée
American pianist Bruce Brubaker offers a concert devoted entirely to the music of Brian Eno. Although he moves through styles and eras, Bruce Brubaker cultivates a…
Festival Variations
Free entry
music
Harrga
HARRGA (‘a burn’ in the Moroccan Darija dialect) is a duo formed by producer and philosopher Miguel Prado and experimental vocalist and improviser Dali de Saint Paul.…
Festival Variations
Free entry
music
ML Buch
In her compositional practice ML Buch sketches up her music in an almost architectural way. The raw material is generated through immersion in playing and assembling as…
Festival Variations
Tickets
music
Lonnie Holley + Julia Holter
Lonnie Holley, a self-taught artist with close ties to the art brut movement, is back on stage with his latest album, more pared-down than ever, eleven tracks on which…
Free entry
Exhibition
Focus Ann Van den Broek
Loops of emotionInstallationLoops of Emotions is a video installation of seven monitors set up in a space. The set-up is adapted to the location and therefore differs…
Tickets
Dance
Ann Van den Broek
The Balancing Act
Using an explosive and visceral approach to movement, Flemish choreographer Ann Van den Broek sets out to study the complexity of human behaviour, a reflection of our…
Tickets
Theatre
Nicolas Sansier
Pinocchio : Et si on nous avait menti...
Théâtre ONYX
Based on Carlo CollodiNicolas Sansier returns to the origins of Pinocchio, the hero of the children’s novel by the Italian author Carlo Collodi, to settle him more…
Free entry
music
Memory Loss Collective
based on choreography by Ann Van den Broek
Memory Loss Collective is a musical collective with Gregory Frateur, Nicolas Rombouts and Sjoerd Bruil. Under the name Memory Loss Collective they improvise on music…
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Theatre
Émilie Rousset & Louise Hémon
Rituel 5 : La Mort
Émilie Rousset and Louise Hémon take a humorous approach to a subject that is still taboo in our Western societies: death. Based on a series of interviews about our…
Tickets
music
Carte blanche to Musica festival
Les frontières de l’écoute
Founded in 1983, the Musica festival in Strasbourg has established itself as a major European event for musical creation. Les Percussions de Strasbourg, the lovemusic…
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Theatre
Romeo Castellucci
Bros
In this piece, the creator of striking stage installations Romeo Castellucci questions the extreme security measures and totalitarian excesses of our contemporary…
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Theatre
François Herpeux & Guillaume Bailliart
La force de la farce
The year is 1977 and the Earth is on the brink of collapse. Patrice, a failed comedian, has a brilliant idea. Inspired by Carl Sagan and his Voyager Golden Record (an…
Free entry
Exhibition
Lauren Lee McCarthy
What can I do for you?
Que puis-je pour vous ? (What can I do for you?) is the first solo exhibition in France by Californian artist Lauren Lee McCarthy, whose installations, videos, and…
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