★Bardem

On Bar & Dem &, Vincent Barras and Jacques Demierre extend their BarDem duo outward: multilingual, spatialized voice pieces refracted through choirs, composers, poets and sound artists who treat language itself as malleable, resonant matter.

Jacques Demierre and Vincent Barras have collaborated for decades, creating a diverse body of sound performances exploring ties between language and the mind. Here everything is coming from materials found in the work of linguist Ferdinand de Saussure. The detailed analysis of the sonorities of various ancient and modern languages, their re-elaboration and re-composition is finally embodied in a score-text.