Totem Électrique International Tour : retour sur les concerts à Édimbourg et Huddersfield

Jean-François Laporte jouant du Tu-Yo Solo

Tuesday, November 15, 2022 - 16:37

Our artistic director and musician Jean-François Laporte is back from his UK tour and it was amazing!

The concert at the ECA (Edinburgh) was magical in many ways. The venue as well as the very welcoming and dedicated technical team made the rehearsals and preparation for the Dialogue 2022 Festival a real pleasure to experience.  

The most incredible thing was the nature of the audience present at this concert, no less than 55% of young people under the age of 30 came to the concert, including many university students. It was a chance to share the cutting edge work we do around Totem Électrique with a young audience. Young people who were passionate and impressed by the instruments and also by the quality of the music proposed.

The concert at the University of Huddersfield was an opportunity to premiere three new works by graduating composers (Anthony StillabowerJakob Bragg and Lucio Tascar). We were honored to premiere these works composed specifically for the Babel Table and Electronics. The three compositions materialize the sounds of the Table de Babel in musical contexts that have not yet been explored. Moreover, two of the three works were composed with the help of traditional scores, see below!