Song - The Songs of the Earth

Using field recordings, Fernand Deroussen, an audio-naturalist, recreates a sound work as realistic as possible, offering the listener all the emotion of a pure moment in the heart of nature. The audience is invited to experience a total immersion in this living soundscape, enhanced by the voices of eight spatialized singers, entering into conversation with wild nature.
The vocal works, whose texts follow, like a great Requiem, the path to death, acceptance, then hope, and the emergence of a new life, also dialogue between two eras: the Renaissance with Lobo and Victoria, and our time with Bertrand Richou, a talented composer who here composes texts by St. Francis of Assisi and Baudelaire.

A WORD FROM THE MUSICAL DIRECTOR
"I was rehearsing scores while sitting at the end of a train platform. A bird sitting behind me began to answer me. We both sang, taking turns and together." I remember from that moment a feeling of wonder: the meeting of the sounds of the wild world and the world, yet so structured, of classical music seemed natural and obvious to me. It is this emotion that I wish to share with the public.