Alliance Française

Showcase Wednesday 🎵

This audiovisual show combines a film of whale ballet with extraordinary variety of whale sounds, from the lowest to the highest pitched, with his double bass. What the audience hears is a fascinating, moving song that cries and laughs, the very song of the whales, reinvented by the composer-improviser.

The double bassist Bernard Abeille has devised his show in the form of a visual and aural dialogue performed live. It interprets an imaginary encounter that touches on a very tangible reality: the slow destruction of our planet and its living spaces by humankind.

Le spectacle « Baleine et contrebasse » mêle aux images filmées d’un ballet de baleines les sons extraordinairement divers, des plus graves aux plus aigus, qu’il tire de son instrument. Un chant fascinant, bouleversant, qui pleure, qui rit, que l’on entend ; le chant même des baleines reconstitué, réinventé génialement par le compositeur improvisateur.

C’est dans la forme d’un dialogue visuel et sonore, interprété en direct, que le contrebassiste Bernard Abeille a conçu son spectacle qui parle d’une rencontre imaginaire, qui touche pourtant une réalité bien palpable : la lente destruction de notre planète et de son espace vivant par les humains.

  • Date : June 12, 2024
  • Time : 7:00 pm (Africa/Nairobi)
  • Venue : Alliance Française Nairobi

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