Music, Magic and the antidictionary

An evening full of surprises with the magic of sounds, words and spells.

With Ludovic Gorges, Artuan de Lierrée et Mathias Steinauer

Ludovic Gorges: magician and co-author of the French hackadémie's antidictionary 

Artuan de Lierrée & Mathias Steinauer: composers, improvisers and pianists

Ludovic Gorges, multilingual magician, also speaks English, German and Russian. Ludovic Gorges is constantly refining his art in contact with the audience. Whether close-up or on stage, for adults or children, for private individuals or companies, he travels all over France. His professionalism, talent and humour make him a sociable magician who is highly appreciated by the general public. 

FRENCH HACKADÉMIE ? The French Hackadémie is a young institution that will publish its first work in October 2023: ‘Antidictionnaire de l'Hackadémie française’. It has absolutely nothing to do with the noble academy founded by Richelieu a few centuries earlier. What is its task? To hack the meaning of words, just as a hacker would do with computer data. With the sole aim of merrily turning your brain inside out... ANTI-DICTIONARY? This is a dictionary that twists the meaning of words by being politically incorrect. A 150-page softcover book (90 gr. cream paper) with over 500 original, witty and irreverent definitions. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-R0gNego0g&t=74s

Artuan de Lierrée, born in 1987, is a composer and musician whose creations fuse elements of classical music, film music and electronics. Fascinated by the strange, the occult and the esoteric, he incorporates these influences into his music and explores atypical instruments such as toy pianos and the theremin. Artuan has also made a name for himself by creating a number of cine-concerts based on silent films, adding a new dimension of sound to iconic visual works. He has performed in a number of prestigious venues, including the Palais de Tokyo in Paris and the Opéra de Limoges.

Mathias Steinauer was born in Basel in 1959. Studied piano, music theory and composition at the Basel Academy of Music. 1986-88: studied composition with György Kurtág. Freelance composer and professor of music theory and composition at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (1986-2021). Artistic director of the ISCM-World New Music Days ‘trans_it’ 2004. His works have been performed in many countries in Europe, Asia and America. Several CD productions. 2011: Performances of his opera ‘Keyner nit’. Plays keyboard instruments in the group ‘The Stone Alphabet’.