MAY, 17th

5:00 PM / DOWNTOWN PARADE (1h long) with the Conservatoire de musique et d’art dramatique du Grand Cognac
Students from the Musical formation of the Grand Cognac invite you to come and sing with them during a joyful parade. These twenty teenager and grown-up musicians have individual and group courses, their studies tackle classical music and jazz, world and traditionary music.

6:30 PM/ LORD RECTANGLE (1h long)
Lord Rectangle, or the spicy and mischievous, tropical and warm, mix-up of France Southern-West and the Caribbean. A “calypsoul” whose highly communicative energy suggests a fanciful – yet fiendishly enchanting musical universe.

6:30 PM/ METAKIDS, Vegetables set the tone (2h long), by Playtronica
The Playtronica group, whose ambition is to relate entertainment to education and to art thanks to a musical interactive experience, will offer the youngest festival-goers a workshop. On the agenda: listening to a zucchini or watermelon music !

8:30 PM/ IOURI CAMICAS & YOURI FERNANDEZ, How Many BPM? (15 min long)
Turn a skateboard ramp into a music instrument, here is the challenge which skater Youri Fernadez and musician Iouri Camicas took up. Along with the human metronome, this contemplative show displays in an urban version the biggest hours of American minimalist music.

9:00 PM/ EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH, Carte Blanche
MétaMusiques invites the Einstein On The Beach, this association that rummages through all forms of musical creations, for a three-concert evening (plus an DJ-set). A large range of diverse approaches to tradition shall be explored. Concerts, DJ-set: a colorful and contrasted evening.
Bi-Bi / Julia Hanadi Al Abed / Taranta Lanera / El Selector Andaluz

9:oo PM/ METAKIDS, Film screening (1h30 long)
Les Demoiselles de Rochefort, by Jacques Demy

11:00 PM/ DJ SET

MAY, 18th

10:00 AM / DOWNTOWN PARADE (1h long)
With the Bagad Ton’Air from Breizh (Angoulême). The Bagad Ton’air de Breizh, from the Angoulême’s and Charente’s Bretons Association, was born in 2002. Its name is a double play-on-word: it refers both to “Ton air de braise” (Your ember air, your ember appearance) and “Tonnerre de Brest” (Brest’s thunder). The “Tonnerre de Brest” used to be a huge cannon, so bug that one would hear it for 30km around. The cannon would be shot to alert to the escape of prisoners from the Brest’s citadel. You better get prepared hearing bombardes and binious from far away ! These musician from Brittany and Charente are about to play.

1:00 PM /MUSICAL NAP (45min)

2:00 PM / METAKIDS, workshop for stringed instrument maker Apprentices – with the Bibliothèque du Grand Cognac.
Florence Morette, librarian from the kid section, initiates kids to the making of music instruments by recycling daily objects (guitars, rain sticks, maracas).

2:30 PM / CHARLES TOURNEMIRE, Préludes-Poèmes (1931-1932) (1h long) by the PESMD Bordeaux-Aquitaine (Pôle d’Enseignement Supérieur Musique et Danse)
Just for a lifetime: this could be the subtitle for Poèmes-Préludes, which Charles Tournemire, a Gironde native, composed for the piano in 1931-1932. Complete work, little known jewel of the piano repertoire, and soon revived by the students from the PESMD – specially for MétaMusiques.

3:45 PM/ OLIVIER MELLANO, Cantique du champignon (Hymn of the fungus), with Kyrie Kristmanson (15min long)
Guitarist and composer, protean and hyperactive Olivier Mellano performs with singer Kyrie Kristmanson within the “L’ombre de la vapeur”, the numerical, immersive and auditive installation designed by Adrien M and Claire B.

4:00 PM / IVAN ILIĆ (3h30 long)

Ivan Ilic pianist, a Gironde-based American pianist, offers a rich program of 3h30, a travel throughout musical treasures from the 19^th to the 21^th centuries. Enjoy the experience while standing up, lying down, moving around or being absorbed.

4:00 pm / METAKIDS, Tous tattoo workshop (4h long) by SkinJackin
The Bordeaux SkinJackin collective gathers painters, illustrators, tattooers, graphists who provide a bodypainting workshop for young and old. The ephemeral tattoos are inspired of the festival’s theme.

4:30 PM / METAKIDS, Andrea Cavale Collective, Pollen & Plancton (45min long) followed by the mask creation workshop by Andrea Cavale
With the Pollen & Plancton musical tae, written and designed by Anne Careil, the Andrea Cavale Collective proposes a poetic universe, with a stunning visual and sound invention. From the age of seven.
The mask creation workshop aims at raising awareness of recycling by revealing all of its creative possibilities. Starting with usual objects – ones the kids could have fetched home, they will talk with the artists about the forms, the shapes that inspire them. Together, they will create a mask, one for every child to take home.

4:30 PM/ METAKIDS, Musical tale reading (45min long) with the Grand Cognac Library
Florence Morette displays her narrator’s talent and take kids on a trip to fantasits universe, where music is the queen.

5:30 PM / OLIVIER MELLANO, Cantique du champignon (Hymn of the fungus), with Kyrie Kristmanson (15min long)
See above

7:45 PM / OLIVIER MELLANO, Cantique du champignon (Hymn of the fungus), with Kyrie Kristmanson (15min long)

8:30 PM/ IOURI CAMICAS & YOURI FERNANDEZ, How Many BPM? (15 min long)
Turn a skateboard ramp into a music instrument, here is the challenge skater Youri Fernadez and musician Iouri Camicas took up. Along with the human metronome, this contemplative show displays in an urban version the biggest hours of American minimalist music.

9:30 PM / CHASSOL, Indiamore (1h long)
With Indiamore, “ultrascore” for movies and instruments, Chassol declares love to Indian music. Keyboards and screens come to meet in a thrilling dialog.

11:00 PM / DJ SET

MAY, 19th

11:00 AM / DOWNTOWN PARADE (1h long) with Batucabraz, a batucada group from Poitiers
For 18 years, Batucabraz don’t miss a carnival, a festival, a demonstration or an event to play this unusual instrument – Brazilian percussion. Whistles, drumstick beating on the stretched skin. People gather around the group, sway their hips, work their body in time with the reggae sambas. The joy of playing is catching. Percussion and smiling sparkle all around out dream carnival.

1:00 PM / MUSICAL NAP (45min long)

1:00 PM / METAKIDS, Andrea Cavale Collective, Pollen & Plancton (45min long) followed by the shadow Theatre workshop by Andrea Cavale
With the Pollen & Plancton musical tale, written and designed by Anne Careil, the Andrea Cavale Collective proposes a poetic universe, with a stunning visual and sound invention. From the age of seven.
Initiation to the shadow Theatre begins with a warm-up and goes on with a workshop – each child creates a character, his body language and his interactions. Kids give life to their imaginative double, using the mask they designed the day before. These displays will be used again to create a video with the stop motion technique.

2:00 PM / JOHN CAGE, Ryoanji (50min long) by the ]h[iatus ensemble
In the eighties, American John Cage (1912-1992) composed five pieces with the very same title – Ryoanji, as a tribute to a famous zen garden in Kyoto… The musical group fills spaces with an unique, uncommon atmosphere. Percussionist Lê Quan Ninh invites to enjoy a highly meditative listening experience.

2:45 PM / OLIVIER MELLANO, Cantique du champignon (Hymn of the fungus), with Kyrie Kristmanson (15min long)
Guitarist and composer, protean and hyperactive Olivier Mellano performs with singer Kyrie Kristmanson within the “L’ombre de la vapeur”, the numerical, immersive and auditive installation designed by Adrien M and Claire B.

3:00 PM / L’OCELLE MARE + SOURDURE, Pass-Murailles : on-the-floor music & podorythmics percussions (2h long)
Want to stamp your feet? Come in a futuristic dance, let yourself be taken away by these crazy bourrées, spin around under the stroboscopes, go into the transe of a marabout musician ! The Pass-Murailles is dedicated to two orchestra-men who reinvent folklore.

3:45 PM / OLIVIER MELLANO, Cantique du champignon (Hymn of the fungus), with Kyrie Kristmanson (15min long)
Guitarist and composer, protean and hyperactive Olivier Mellano performs with singer Kyrie Kristmanson within the “L’ombre de la vapeur”, the numerical, immersive and auditive installation designed by Adrien M and Claire B.

3:45 PM / METAKIDS, Film screening (1h30 long)
Les Triplettes de Belleville, by Sylvain Chomet

5:00 PM / CIAC BOUM, Bal du pays (1h30 long)
For 8 years, Ciac Boum carries the torch of Poitou’s musics, be it on French or international stages. To conclude the Metamusiques festival in a party atmosphere, in an intergenerational way, the trio proposes a frenzied ball, blending traditional airs and personal compositions.

We invite all the festival-goers to conclude the 1^st Metamusique edition with the NOVA AMOR concert, on Sunday, May 19^th at 6:30 pm, in the Abattoirs, 33 rue des Gabariers, Cognac City.
Paying concert, reservations on lesbattoirs-cognac.fr