Aymeric Hainaux
François Chaignaud Mirlitons

Mirlitons is an encounter between two voices and two bodies, between the choreographer François Chaignaud and the musician Aymeric Hainaux. It gives rise to a physical and musical alchemy in which sound, voice and rhythm combine to form an unclassifiable performative intensity.

Is it a concert, battle, ritual, or pastoral? The origin of this unidentified vocal object is the encounter between two heterogeneous performative universes, that of François Chaignaud, dancer, singer, and performer who has been using the voice as a vehicle  for sensorial and spiritual states for a number of years. And that of Aymeric Hainaux, a multi-faceted artist, beatboxer and musician, who plays around with and mixes ritornellos, beat, audio feedback and shrieks. Both of them intrigued by the work of the other, they came into the studio with the desire to test their respective musical limits. Put differently, they set out to delve into the lesser-explored zones of song and rhythm in order to invent a musical and physical form of writing of their own. Roaming the stage as if it were a playground with shifting rules and regulations, they use their vocal chords, feet, and arms in order to flesh out a score composed of uneven cadences. With their affection for the hybridization of musical traditions, they set off in search of a vibratory point of resonance. Whether they be on the lookout, in friction, in contact, or all ears, their duo is similar to a mirliton (which in French can mean a small flute, couvre-chef headdress, Louis d’or coin or type of patisserie): polysemic, sonorous and altogether elusive.