Monday 17 August, 21:00

Music for 18 Musicians — Steve Reich

Steve Reich’s landmark Music for 18 Musicians unfolds a shifting sonic landscape built from repeating motifs and cascading harmonies. Performed by Eklekto, Geneva’s contemporary percussion collective, together with Ensemble Contrechamps, the work balances meticulous rhythmic drive with luminous textures. The concert offers an immersive, hypnotic sound experience where pulse and harmony weave in constant transformation, highlighting both the piece’s minimal architecture and its emotional breadth.

Parc La Grange,
Quai Gustave-Ador, Geneva
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Photo Credit: ©Christophe Egea

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Tuesday 18 August, 19:00

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Wednesday 19 August, 21:00

Brooklyn-born poet and musician Aja Monet weaves spoken word and jazz-inflected song into a charged, intimate performance. Her voice combines surreal imagery, precise diction and raw emotional clarity, supported by subtle electronic textures and live instrumentalists. Collaborations with leading jazz and soul figures inform a multidisciplinary approach that blends improvisation, rhythmic poetics and melodic hooks. The staging favors close, cinematic lighting and spacious soundscapes, inviting listeners into a communal, urgent evening of reflection and fierce tenderness.

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12 – 23 August

Directed by Louis Bonard, Les Voüéces follows two reclusive women, Rodogonde and Frénéjus, who live atop a high tower. Louis Bonard and Michèle Gurtner wrote and perform a piece in an enchanted pseudo‑medieval tongue where voice, embroidery and play weave a poetic fable. The performance probes silence, the passage of time, guilt and the unsettling presence of other voices — ghostly, culpable or absurd — with a blend of darkness and dark humour.

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20 – 22 August

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6 – 27 August

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