Feuillages strives to allow us to listen and understand what a musical gesture is and how the composers of the 20th century and today set out to write it, to represent it and by what most inventive processes they found ways to represent the sounds they heard graphically or typographically.

This ensemble Cairn project aims to highlight the gestures and notations of these incredible sounds.

Feuillages is based around the music of Julien Malaussena and Dmitri Kourliandski who are the two composers in residence within the Cairn ensemble.

This project is a continuation of the @festival.ensembles in which Conservatory students have been participating for four years now.

Feuillages will completely mix the interpretations of young musicians and the interpretations of Cairn musicians in a form of dialogue around works written specifically for them, and across generations.

Also, the Openlab project by Dmitri Kourliandski which will close this concert, offers young performers wishing to explore free, graphic notations, thus exploring free sound material entering into dialogue with an electronic device controlled by the composer.