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Our performer and artist director Jean-François Laporte will be touring Europe from November to December, presenting Totem Électrique concerts and workshops. Totem Électrique concert series presents new musical works composed specifically for one of our invented instruments, combined with an electronic or electroacoustic element.

For the XVIth edition of Totem Électrique, Productions Totem Contemporain invites you in collaboration with Le Vivier to an original and magical musical experience around five new works commissioned to talented composers: Simon Chioini (CA), Dominic Walter-Batista (CA), Xavier Ménard (CA),  Pablo Geeraert (BE), Andrea Laudante (IT)

For the XVIth edition of Totem Électrique, Productions Totem Contemporain invites u in co-production with Le Vivier to an original and magical musical experience around five new works commissioned to talented female composers: Erin Gee (CA), Julie Delisle (CA), Audréanne Filion (CA), Sara Magnan (CA) and Sophie Delafontaine (BE).

Dancing by night, dancing the night away. With La Belle Humeur, compagnie La Zampa turns the night into a place of choreographic explosions and metamorphoses, where nature reclaims its rights. Free but conscious, lucid but disrespectful, this choreographic night is carried away by the intensity of contemporary gesture and incessant movement in permanent decomposition and recomposition.

Dancing by night, dancing the night away. With La Belle Humeur, compagnie La Zampa turns the night into a place of choreographic explosions and metamorphoses, where nature reclaims its rights. Free but conscious, lucid but disrespectful, this choreographic night is carried away by the intensity of contemporary gesture and incessant movement in permanent decomposition and recomposition.

Jean-François Laporte will premiere on May 17, 2023, two new works composed by the students of the Folkwang University of the Arts. These works are also the continuation of the workshop that was conducted in October 2022 with the Babel Table.

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    Haku (2023), Ray Porst Clarissa (DE)

Jean-François Laporte will premiere on May 12, 2023, five new works composed by the students and a teacher of the University of Edinburgh. These works are the continuation of the workshop that was conducted in October 2022 with the Babel Table.

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The first stop of the tour is in Brussels, Belgium for a concert on May 6, 2023 organized by the Fenêtre Ovale collective and ZonneKlopper.

Les chants de l'inaudible is a new sound installation featuring the organic humming and whistling of various compressed-air powered instrument.

"Exploratory reinvents and digs deeper than ever before into the ocean of possibilities of drone music." *1

The new works by Iris Lancery (Fr), Julie Delisle (Ca), Giovanni Corgiat Mercio (It), Francesco Bianchi (It), 

PTC joins Ensemble Cairn to perform three works by composers chosen for the originality of their approach. This unusual instrumentarium - two Babel Tables and a Siren Organ - responds to the classical instruments in an unprecedented junction between raw materials and sound materials.

Our performer and artist director Jean-François Laporte is back on tour for two dates in England! For the Totem Électrique Hudderfields event, three new works will be premiered as well as two original works from the repertoire to be played on the instrument, the Table de Babel and the Bowl!

Our performer and artist director Jean-François Laporte will be on tour again for two dates in England! He will present new works, but also workshops on his instruments!

In an evocation of time and history, Isak Goldschneider at the piano and Jean-François Laporte at the Table of Babel will transport you from liminal spaces inspired by a Babylonian palace  to the traces of the memory. Palais de Mari, Morton Feldman’s last piece for solo piano, and Nacht, a creation by Pierre-Luc Senécal, will be gently enveloped by the visual worlds of artists

This Sunday, October 9, 2022, we invite you to the 

On September 26, during the To Listen To festival in Turin (IT), our performer Jean-François Laporte will present five works by talented composers: Stefano Bassanese, Benjamin Thigpen, Carlo Bar

For this 15th edition, Totem has commissioned five new works by talented composers: Myriam Boucher, Adam Basanta, Émilie Payeur, Carlo Barbagallo and Diego Bermudez Chamberland.