Le Grand Soir Numérique 

This momentous evening has become a Biennale Némo classic, a blend of electronic music and audiovisual performances with contemporary music by Ensemble intercontemporain and Ircam. 

ARS NATURA – Hugo Arcier and Annabelle Playe 

Phantasmagoric images created by Hugo Arcier and Annabelle Playe immerse the audience in a vivid work of science fiction in which nature is powerful, wild, and somewhat unsettling. What we think of as nature has actually been selected, identified and shaped by the human hand – is this a pre- or post-Anthropocene, a simulation, or from our planet? 

F E M I N A – Riccardo Giovinetto 

F E M I N A (also shown as an installation in the Illusions Rediscovered exhibition at CENTQUATRE-PARIS) is an audiovisual performance in which the echoes of polyphonic choirs are layered with original electronic music, while Renaissance paintings are deconstructed and transformed in a flow of images that react to the sound. The project explores the idea of grace and the eye of Renaissance painters, who accorded it par excellence to the feminine figure. 

Phoenix Eye, Dragon Eye – Yang Song 

The artist transforms a violoncello into a guqin, a traditional Chinese plucked instrument, and uses video and electronics to examine the roots of Chinese and western musical traditions. 

OEuvre nouvelle – Clara Olivares 

For her second collaboration with Ensemble intercontemporain, Clara Olivares explores artificial intelligence and the borderlines between human and machine, in a musical reflection firmly anchored in the present. 

Valets – Augustin Braud 

Augustin Braud uses four guitar amplifiers to pair the sound of instruments with an underground presence usually outside the range of human perception. 

In partnership with Ensemble intercontemporain, Ircam-Centre Pompidou and La Muse en Circuit-CNCM 

Cover © ARS NATURA