Activities
Live performances
Live performances are two-day micro-residencies in the venue, in order to prepare a performance adapted to the venue and in line with the proposed technology. Our aim is for each performance to be unique in terms of its relationship with sound, visuals and the space between audience and artist.
Installations
Installations are on show for long periods and allow the public to interact with the work. As much for children and families as for the informed public, they offer a playful and mediating aspect to sound.
Sound baths
Each season, a series of sound baths will bring together three artists, each of whom will perform three times, once every two months. This programme is an opportunity for these residents to experiment with the evolution between each performance, to invite other artists to collaborate and to familiarise themselves with the sound system and its possibilities.
Multichannel listening
Multichannel listening sessions are listening sessions where the audience lies down. They consist of the presentation of works recorded specially for rooms with an acoustic system, bringing together a multitude of composers from around the world (in conjunction with the inDREAM and SANE networks).
Nomadic broadcasts
Nomadic broadcasts enable artists coming out of an in situ creative residency to present their work freely in other cultural spaces. A maximum of 8 modular diffusion points can be combined to produce a mobile structure, allowing creations of up to 32 diffusion points to be easily adapted in a more portable format.
Nomadic works that can be broadcast
The "Magnetic Bach" project offers a world of experiments in which baroque compositions magnetically blend with improvised electronic music. The project is led by baroque cellist Ilze Grudule, Vincent Flückiger on sampling and Fred Chappuis on the Moog synthesiser. Together, they take Bach's Cello Suites and combine them with electronic sounds. Gradually, an experimental and unconventional interpretation of the original work develops, breathing new life into it and revealing new facets.
The project has been presented in different forms and with different compositions throughout Europe. It has been invited to several classical music festivals.
One Owl Soul is the solo drone ambient project of Olivier Verleye (Sowl, satan.one, Dasein, Nostalgie Plage). An engaged figure in the Fribourg cultural scene, he has been involved in it for over 20 years as a musician, sound engineer and sound designer. His journey into ambient and drone music led him to meet and collaborate with Jocelyn Raphanel, which led to residencies and performances, but above all to a dive into the magical world of spatial and immersive sound, embodied by MIAM.
The One Owl Soul project is an emotional and narrative exploration expressed through the interaction of different sounds, textures and loops constructed live. On stage, each human and material element is seen as collaborating collectively for the benefit of a spontaneous, dynamic and living creation. The human interacts with the machine and cultivates its share of the unexpected, of deus ex machina, as it welcomes its impulses and mixes them with its emotions. The sounds of a guitar are transformed and intertwined through effects and loopers to create increasingly detailed cyclical structures, emerging from the depths of a persistent drone. One Owl Soul's music flows and sparkles like a river carrying the alluvium it drags in its wake.
