Music Current 2025: ensemble soundinitiative
Project Arts Centre
ensemble soundinitiative (photo by OHM.LV.)
PERFORMERS
Louise Leverd, cello
Szymon Kaça, clarinet
Benjamin Soistier, percussion
Winnie Huang, gestures and violin
Tim Cape composer with collaboration with Alan Feldon (theatre director)
Shh…Let’s Play celebrates childlike moments of dreaming, playing and laughing. This intimate concert incorporates creative listening, comic gesturing, instrumental experimentation and creative game play. Through exploring the CUBE concert space by scattering the different pieces in different places within the room, the audience goes on a journey of playful discoveries, from video lullabies, to flashmob movements, to game-play between performers and the audience, and finishing with an absurdist musical theatrical performance.
Established in 2011, Paris-based ensemble soundinitiative is dedicated to the creation of interdisciplinary concerts exploring the diverse possibilities of each unique performance space. The group performs new music, all the while inspired by theatre, dance, visual and performance art, creating new formats with the audiences’ multi-sensorial experience and perspective as a priority. The ensemble aspires to create boundary questioning works through deep collaborations with innovative composers. soundinitiative has performed in major festival and stages in Europe, North-America, Australia and Asia and is currently ensemble in residence at Conservatoire d’Ivry-sur-Seine and Conservatoire d’Aubervilliers in France. http://soundinitiative.fr
For the premiere of ‘Soother’, the soundinitiative and Timothy Cape were welcomed in residence at Logelloù - centre de création artistique, with the support of the DRAC Bretagne.
soundinitiative has received support from the Maison de la musique Contemporaine (MMC) as part of the aid for the production and dissemination of contemporary works for 2024, and from Diaphonique, the Franco-British-Irish fund for contemporary music in partnership with Sacem, the Friends of the French Institute of the United Kingdom, the British Council, the French Institute, the National Music Centre, Culture Ireland and the Francis and Mica Salabert Foundation.
soundinitiative is supported by the DRAC Île-de-France and the Région Île-de-France.
Programme
Aviva Endean - Song invitation : Lullaby, 2015, 4"
Winnie Huang - tick tock iiiiii, 2021, 12"
James Saunders - something happens then something else happens then all sorts of other things happen, 2025, (version for 4 performers), 10"
Benjamin Soistier - Conduite Accompagnée, 2024, (version for 4 performers) 10"
Tim Cape - Soother, (2025) 25"