Janequineries

As if returning five hundred years later from our distant musical history, Clément Janequin invites himself to the schools of the 21st century, carrying in his luggage his imagination and inventiveness. The composer Maël Bailly welcomes him. Together, they build a show for 200 children’s voices mixed with 7 instruments that cross the sounds of everyday life.

The first skeleton of the show is the Cris de Paris, a song composed by Janequin around 1530 in imitation of the voices of the merchants and artisans who beat the Parisian streets. Or rather, their dismantling, offered as a sound game to the children’s song, from the initial address to the listener “Voulez ouÿr les cris de Paris“, to the profusion of market exclamations, cut up, boned, passed through the voluble mill and the varied scales of Maël Bailly. The second framework functions as a mirror of the cries of the Renaissance by inventing murmurs of the 21st century familiar to today’s students. A sort of vocal and sonorous inventory of the contents of their school kit, illustrated by the click of a criterium, the clack of a four-colour pen, the sonorous tearing of a roll of scotch tape…

Cries of yesteryear, murmurs of the present, mischief, mischief, janequineries: « Si vous voulez plus ouÿr, allez les donc querre ! » (“If you want to be more successful, go and find them!)