La Marmite Infernale is a creative music orchestra. For forty years, the pot has remained the same—perhaps a bit more battered, but still as useful. What has changed over the decades is not so much the recipe—a blend of lyricism and improvisation—but rather the ingredients: its members.

This age-old passage and the back-and-forth between two eras make this orchestra a continuum that raises the question: is it following the course of history? Or could it simply be a series of disorderly comings and goings? Should we hear a musical chronology, or merely a tenuous, free-spirited sonic thread winding its way stubbornly from ear to ear?

"Today, we want to tell a story of boustrophedon, like an ox plowing the field—from right to left, then from left to right. Or the other way around. Is there a mirror to our music? Let’s put our blinders back on: our territory is the stage, our compass, the ears, and our plow, our instruments.
The mirror of music is certainly not strictly musical, which is why, in addition to musicians, we want to invite authors, actresses, dancers, and performers.
With 10 of us, we know how to make the music resonate. With 20, who will be the reflection? What part will be invention? Where will distortion begin? Will the grimace dissolve into my psyche? Collaborative collapse? Narcissistic polyamory or accidental fidelity?
We want to tell our story through the other who encounters us. Boustrophedon doesn’t allow for a final word; the mise en abyme of an orchestral sound may lead to another word, another orchestra, another person—not just you, not just me, but the back-and-forth between us. From 20, we will soon be 30..."

La Marmite Infernale

Artists invited to this project :

  • Asmãa ALOUI
  • Isabelle CAVOIT
  • Aurélia DELACROIX
  • Diane DELZANT
  • Elsa FOUCAUD
  • Pauline LAURENDEAU
  • Nicole MERSEY ORTEGA
  • Emmanuelle SABY
  • Élisa TREBOUVILLE
  • Anaïs VIVES