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Abadir
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Abadir

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Egypt / Germany
Public with reduced mobility
Festival Variations

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 music hits the dancefloors of the future with full force!
 

Abadir
Pauline Gompertz © Mathilda Gustau
Pauline Gompertz © Mathilda Gustau
About the Festival
From 30 March To 7 April
Variations 2024
In partnership with the Fondation BNP Paribas, Le Lieu Unique, the centre for contemporary culture in Nantes, is organising an annual festival of experimental music based around the piano and keyboards: Variations. The festival will present some thirty concerts spanning across jazz, electronic, experimental, traditional and pop music, while showcasing the exciting mix of genres at play in contemporary musical creation. 
Variations 2024
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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 melodies of the past…
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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…
Festival Variations
Free entry
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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…
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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…
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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…
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soldout
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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
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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,…
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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
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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
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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
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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…
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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…
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