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VIDEOFORMES presents:
Videobar #72: “Dralhas”
Ciné concert by Romain Maurel, Iris Kaufmann, François Arbon & David Farge
Thursday May 23, 2019 | 6:30 pm > 8 pm
Chapelle de l’Oratoire
Free access
Artistic direction: Romain Maurel & Iris Kaufmann. Silent film directed and edited by David Farge, with the collaboration of Iris Kaufmann and Romain Maurel / Music played live by Iris Kaufmann (voice, synthesizers, bells), Romain Maurel (voice, violin, bells), and François Arbon (sampling, sound processing).
Dralhas
Dralhas is the story of a meeting between the bell, Man and Nature. The artists explore erased rural lands in search of a language, of a musicality proper to the breeder and his animals. Giving life to this great popular orchestra, Dralhas brings us to the discovery of the contemporary pastoral culture between Aubrac and Provence. This musical work exposes the problems of the forgotten countryside, and the urgency in the face of the growing industrialization of livestock farming. The bell creates a link between technique and poetry to sublimate, even mystify the pastoral gesture. On stage, two chimes, a violin, samplers and effects pedals, analogical synthesizers… three pluriform musicians going from traditional music of the Pays d’oc to experimental and noisy music, to deliver a radical audiovisual poetry.
Romain Maurel, Iris Kaufmann, François Arbon & David Farge
Romain Maurel is a musician, poet and observer of singular popular arts and oral traditions. In 2013, he joined the artistic direction of the Auvergne Imagined Company, then became a member of AMTA (Agence des Musiques des Territoires d’Auvergne) in 2014. The performances are presented to the public in a friendly atmosphere conducive to exchanges. The performances presented are original and often punctual. They can combine video art with other artistic disciplines, in connection with digital arts.
Iris Kaufmann, musician and ethnologist, collects sounds, words, objects, and thus creates her sound laboratory, mixing experimental, traditional and baroque.
The two artists, accompanied by François Arbon, polyinstrumentist, and David Farge, director, develop together a sensitivity for traditional cultures, and confront traditional music with other forms of artistic expression.
Media partners: Radio Campus Clermont, Kinic
