Alexis Degrenier + Marie Delprat

Alexis Degrenier – “Anatomy of Melancholy”

Solo for percussion, voice, small electronic devices and electric fireflies

Alexis Degrenier continues his work with a new creation for percussion, voice, electronic devices and small reactive lights. This new cycle, also conceived as the basis for a future album, extends his research into the obstructed body, sonic affects, and the relationship between gesture and technology.

Inspired in particular by Dürer’s Melencolia I, the solo explores melancholy as a vital force: a tension between light and shadow, presence and absence, precision and overflow. Prepared percussion, organelle, transducers, fragmented voice and micro-sounds come together in a fragile, ever-shifting setup, where the body becomes extended, saturated and traversed.

Blending sonic experimentation with philosophical reflection, this performance explores rupture, transformation, and the ability of affect to become a creative energy, revealing unexpected forms of clarity in a journey through a remarkably accomplished sonic world…
— Jérôme Nylon

Marie Delprat – “What Remains After Desire”

Musical performance

What Remains After Desire is Marie Delprat’s new solo recording project, a sonic exploration of what remains after the intensity of desire, ambition and passion. In the stillness that follows urgency, the project opens up a space where vulnerability, intimacy and exhaustion become forces for transformation.

Through delicate melodies, finely crafted textures and an immersive musical dramaturgy, fragility reveals itself as a force for renewal. What Remains After Desire invites listeners into a world where letting go becomes a quiet act of resistance, and where gentleness gives rise to the most enduring forms of connection.

In collaboration with GRAME – Centre National de Création Musicale, as part of the ZONE XP Festival