30.08 > 18.09 | L’échappée belle – Exposition + performance

1 June 2017 City Sonic

L’échappée belle - exposition /// EN

For its first partnership between Allance Française Brussels-Europe and Transcultures/City Sonic Christophe Bailleau and Philippe Franck (Pastoral duet) are invited to present a selection of twenty photographs (taken by Christophe Bailleau) that correspond to poetic fragments, (written by Philippe Franck).

Pastoral has composed ten ambient tracks for these dyptic image-text compositions, which can be listened on headphones to by the choice that corresponds to the visitor’s mood. Each application expresses itself without modification and responds in an immediacy and intimacy…which this duo wanted to conserve for this escape into the quietness of a provincial reality, and unveils a strange surrealism, under this poetic and visual double-regard.

With L’échappée belle (the beautiful escape), a collaboration started in 2007 and developed in 2017. The duet proposes a surreal and poetic glance into the imaginary and resort/holiday spaces where a form of lynch-like strangeness is tinted with offset humour.

Recent videos of Pastoral (Figures, Limpide-objets trouvés, No meaning) and of Christophe Bailleau in solo (The Colony, Fumigènes,Sérotones) as well as radiophonic creations (Le yaourt n’est pas un yoghourt, la perte) in a loop complete this exhibition of image-sound in movement.

Performance Pastoral

On the occasion of the opening of this exhibition, Pastoral will present a performance and its new CD + booklet photos/texts L’échappée belle (The Beautiful Escape) produced by Transcultures on the alter Transonic label.

Production de l’exposition : Transcultures avec le soutien de l’Alliance Française de Bruxelles

Alliance française
Avenue des Arts 46, Bruxelles

30.08 – 13:00 | Performance
30.08 > 18.09.2017 | Exhibition

Monday to Thursday | 09:00>18:00
Friday 9:00>12:30 | Free entrance

Créations radiophoniques de Christophe Bailleau

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La perte (2005)

This piece, which is part of a trilogy with the previous audio creations ‘Medicine and Cosmetics’, was made from interviews on the theme of loss of knowledge. In a loss of self caused by an emotional shock, this evasion can become a means of escaping physical suffering. Memory is altered with time, emphasizing the difficulty of recounting the experience; The listener is himself subject to an absence …

Souligner la difficulté à relater cette expérience, car la mémoire s’altère avec le temps ; l’auditeur est lui-même sujet à une absence…

Christophe Bailleau, Julie Maréchal
Production Christophe Bailleau with le soutien du Fonds d’aide à la création radiophonique de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles.

Le yaourt n’est pas un yoghourt

‘Yoghurt’ (in French)is the technique that allows you to sing any song whose lyrics are simply ignored by vaguely imitating its tone. We will attempt to create a panorama that is both documentary and poetic. After listening to the testimony of different people from the Region and beyond, sharing their experience of yoghurt practice, and listening to various improvised « yoghurts’, we will try to understand the reasons and motivations for the use of ‘yoghurt’, through testimony, Music professionals, language teachers, psychologists … Finally we will see how it is above all pleasant to play with the language, and that this game can plunge us into a real maelstrom of sensations.

Vidéos de Christophe Bailleau & Pastoral

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Christophe Bailleau Fumigène (2013)

‘the sky is even more beautiful upside down ;

a trip in a forest and in my mind.”

Production Transcultures/Transonic

Christophe Bailleau/Pastoral Figures (2015)

Escaping to the parents vacationers, the children dance under clement heaven; Soon the family houses of this gentle colony on the sea side shine in the evening as in a magic trick …

Production Transcultures

Pastoral No meaning (2014)

Christophe Bailleau and Philippe Franck shot this video for their Pastoral’s song “No Meaning” . They explore with a surrealist touch of humour the codes of pop videos with artistic pretentiousness as well as the meaning to be sought. Metaphors … with or without meaning, that is the question!

Production Transcultures/Transonic

La colonie (2017 - création)

Characters with scrambled figures meet and separate in a strange Walloon campaign … on an electro-rock music of Pastoral.

Production Transcultures/Transonic

Christophe Bailleau/Pastoral Limpide (2017)

Limpide is a video stream consisting only of moments gleaned on the net (marine creatures, digital eruptions, paranormal phenomena …) chosen both for their poetry and their apparent banality. These “found moving images” converse with an electronic soundscape of Pastoral.