Quartet A l’Ouest Disorientated jazz

Dîtes 33Musical and visual immersionin the world of insects

Baron SamediPercussions

MetropolisElectro movie concert (F. Lang, 1927,full restaured version)

M. Méliès & Géo SmileVideo-acoustic concert with the films

of G. Méliès - from 6

Nous MIXVideo-concert with B. Voarick From 6

La Souplesse de la BaleineSound objects theater - from 3

A La Vie La MortPainting-concert around«Triumph of the Death» (P. Bruegel)

Koko le ClownCine-concert (Fleischer Brothers,

1919/29) - from 6

Chang Ciné-concert (M.C. Cooper & E. B. Schoedsack, 1927)

From 6

Nanouk l’esquimauCine-concert (R. Flaherty, 1922) From 6

Cinérir’ArfiWorkshop de Lyon with shorts films of Keaton, Chaplin, Laurel & Hardy - from 6

Le BonheurSurrealistic cine-oratorio (A. Medvedkine, 1934)

Les raisins de la déraisonCine-concert on a docu-fiction about French vineyards (1926)

Félix le chatCine-concert, cartoons of O. Messmer and P. Sullivan From 3

Les contes persansCine-concert around Iranians animated films - from 3

Jean Aussanaire (alto & soprano sax)

Jean-Paul Autin saxophones alto et sopranino, clar. basse

Michel Boiton (drums, percs)

Jean Bolcato (doublebass, voice)

Olivier Bost (guitars, trombone)

Eric Brochard (doublebass)

Xavier Garcia (sampler, sound effects, latop)

Clément Gibert (sax, clarinet)

Guillaume Grenard (trumpet, slide trumpet)

Jean Mereu (trumpet, bugle)

Christian Rollet (drums, percs)

Alfred Spirli (drums, objects)

Eric Vagnon (saxophones)

Guy Villerd (tenor sax, laptop)

Pierre-Henri Frappat Manager Marie Doré Assistant manager Géraldine Winckler Assistant manager Jérôme Lopez Video / graphics

President : Joëlle Le JeanTreasurer : Anne-Marie BastienSecretary : Tony Traoré

Jean-Marc François : stage, lightsThierry Cousin, Bernard Gousset : sound

Associationà la Recherched'un FolkloreImaginaire16 rue Pizay, BP 1102,69202 Lyon cedex 01 - Francetel : +33 472 98 22 00 fax : +33 472 98 22 09 arfi@arfi.org www.arfi.org

Groups, cine-concerts and shows for small and big ears !

Videos, audios, press cuts... www.arfi.org

Babel OrkestraJazz and music form Comore, Benin, Kosovo, Turkey

Arfi repertories young audiences

Arfi repertories all publics

Photographic copyright: : Nicolas Beaume, Juan Carlos Hernandez, Ste-phan Morschhauser, Les Grands films classiques, Folimage, Paul Menet, Jérôme Lopez, Christian Guy, Remi Angeli, Yves Nivot Bastien Capela.

musicians in collectiveProfessional musicians Association since its foundation in 1977, Arfi is one of the eldest French collective, maybe European, of jazz and improvised music. Its longevity can be explained by the musicians character, all composers and improvisers, and most of all by the quality of their relationship, based on a common passion:

Research, constantly boosted, for new energies to build music (modelling sounds, shapes, overcoming chance…), to open their mind to other arts (cinema, dance, theatre, literature, visual arts, cuisine, photogra-phy…), and other fields of music: traditional (South Africa, Brazil, Ukraine…), popular (brass bands, film music…), contemporary (European improvisers and composers, electronica…)

… for an Imaginary Folklore. They state, despite a so-called compulsory modernity, that they defend « popular » music (at least those that let imagine something), a difficult yet passionate goal. They rely on diversity and cohesion, anarchy and discipline, doubt and confidence. Many contradictions that one can’t sew up without a strong sense of collective.

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Le Workshop de Lyon«Letters to distant friends» - J. Aussanaire (sax), J-P. Autin (sax, bass clarinet),J. Bolcato (bass, voice), C. Rollet (drums), T. Cousin (sound).

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * *Creation dec. 2014 / on tour in 2015.

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The ‘Workshop de Lyon’ musicians reply to all the friends in faraway places that they have met while touring or in their private lives as musicians: a personalised musical letter in a language adapted to the original source of the meeting. A new repertoire and a new album, the Workshop is one of the not-to-be-missed Arfi groups for 2015!

other highlights

ArFolia LibraA meeting between an Arfi quartet and a Renaissance music quartet.Arfi: J. Aussanaire (sax), J-P. Autin (sax, bass cla-rinet), C. Gibert (sax, clarinet), X. Garcia (laptop). Aperto Libro: A. Ramage, L. Perret, T. Simas Freire, M. Bertaud (renaissance recorders, flutes, crumhorn, dulcian, cornet, bombard, bagpipes).Coproduction Arfi / CCR d’Ambronay.

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * New album autumm 2015.

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During the Renaissance, the musical repertory, open to improvisation, was subject to a diverse range of reinventions. ArFolia Libra follows in the footsteps of this musical freedom and takes on one of the most famous themes in the history of music, the Folia, which has been passed down through the ages and the conti-nents. A theme which the musicians will develop through several sequences of variations, from the most courteous to the least reverent, a novel series of proposi-tions and appropriations of a music which is waiting to be conquered anew.

Au-dessus du mondeAbove the world Music, text: A. Ricros. Arrangements: C. Gibert; Choreography: V. Mantsoe; With M. Barbier (trombone), E. Brochard (bass), C. Cognet, (violin), C. Gibert (clarinet), V. Mantsoe (dance), J. Puech (Auvergne bagpipes, vocals), C. Rollet (drums), A. Ricros (recital, vocals). Coproduction with Auvergne Imaginée.

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * *New album 2014 / On tour in 2015.

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The musicians of ‘Auvergne Imaginée’ and of Arfi use the style and codes of the ‘bour-rée traditionnelle’ as the source material for an inventive music. Vincent Mantsoe, a South-African dancer living in Auvergne, follows a similar path, integrating contem-porary choreography with the traditions and rituals handed-down by his family. Rich with his own culture he is naturally at home with these musicians, not by dan-cing ‘la bourrée’, but by translating into his own gestural language with an incredible energy the essence and spirit of the dance.

Avril l’enchanteur Enchanting AvrilVideo-concert around the outsider art of Armand Avril.C. Gibert (sax, clarinet), M. Boiton & C. Rollet (drums), J. Lopez (video and sound traitment, percs)

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * *Creation dec. 2014 / on tour in 2015.

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * *«Armand Avril is a great multi-facetted artist. I would like to pay my own tribute to the man, an enchanting uncle, and his universe… with a mu-sical and video creation, a percussive and amused dialogue with his work». M. Boiton

The music will be composed in relation to Avril’s works, creating correspondence rather than illustration : there will be imaginary melodies, rhythmic collages and the acoustic results of working on the density of the sonic instrumental material responding to the pulsating paintings. The video work will of course be a presentation of some of the more emblematic of the painter’s works and the extraordinary vitality of his art.

The images will provide the narrative to the show and offer the public the opportunity to engage ‘dialogue’ with the artist.

Les Incendiaires The ArsonistsO. Bost (tb), E. Vagnon (sax), G. Grenard (trump).

* * * * * * * * * * * * *Summer 2015.New album autumm 2015.

* * * * * * * * * * * * * Les Incendiares (the Arsonists), the first ARFI trio to consist uniquely of new members of the collective, was formed under the initiative of Alain Gibert.

The magical intrumentarium pre-viously invented by the Apollo trio (A. Gibert, J-P Autin, J-L Cappozzo) made them want to develop their own vision today. G. Grenard, O. Bost and E. Va-gnon first got together in 2013 for the creation of the cine-concert «M. Méliès & Géo Smile» (with J. Lopez and D. Grange). From this shared experience came an urgent desire to play together again in 2015, this time in a purely musical setting....

Max, naufragé des rêvesMax, shipwrecked from dreams Music & puppets

Conception : D. Indeau, E. Brochard, J. Aussanaire. Music : J. Aussanaire and É. Brochard. Puppets : D. Indeau. Lights : C. Bertheau. Constructor : D. Perraud. Advisors : N. Durand et P. Henniquau.

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * *Nov. 2015 - Jazz à Potiers. Coproduction Arfi / La Cie des Anges.In partenarship with Jazz à Poitiers.

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Max, at the service of the GOHD (Great Organiser of the Dreams of Humanity)... Following their initial meeting in 2013 for the show WANG-FO, Arfi musicians get back together with the ‘Cie. des Anges’ (An-gels Company) for the creation of a com-pletely hybrid show, somewhere between a concert and a puppet theatre.

Bobines Mélodies 2 Melody reels 2cine-concertX. Garcia (laptop), J-P. Autin (sax, bass clarinet), A. Spirli (drums, objects). T. Cousin (sound).

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * *Autumn 2015.

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * After the success of the Bobines Mélodies (Melody Reels), with over 150 shows since its creation in 2006, the trio continues the cine-concert adventure, creating a rich and varied programme for the magnificent film ‘The Old Man and The Sea’, the centrepiece of the show.

The programme includes: ‘Masks’ (J. Boul-bès, Lardux films), ‘Mister Cok’ (F. Dion, Papy 3D), ‘Insomnia’ (V. Lescov, RijaFilms/ Latvia), ‘Destiny’ (ESIA Bellecour 3D), ‘The Old Man and The Sea’ (A. Petrov, studios P. Blais/Québec), ... as well as some ‘musical fiction’, created live by the musicians.

Les kiriki acrobatesThe Kiriki acrobatsParticipative cine-concert

G. Villerd (sax, laptop, voix), J. Bolcato (b, perc, voice).

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * *Autumn 2015.

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * *Everybody get ready for a trip back in time! Rediscover a forgotten craftsman of the fabulous adventure of cinematography… Rediscover the little gems filmed by the Spanish director Segundo de Chomón. The soundtrack is created live by our two mu-sicians who are both minstrels and singers.

The phantasmagorical films of Segundo de Chomón lend themselves perfectly to the creation of a fresh, joyful and unbridled new soundtrack. This cine-concert is aimed at a broad au-dience (from age 5 upwards). Children can also be invited to participate, singing along with the musicians on four songs in the show.

new projects 2015

Les hommes,maintenant ! Men, now !Staged concert. A new creation by La Marmite Infernale (ARFI’s big orchestra) with the complicity of the director Jean-Paul Delore, Cie LZD.

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 4, 5, 6 nov. 2015 - Théâtre de la Renaissance, Oullins (69). Coproduction Arfi / Théâtre de la Renaissance.

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * In 1997 the Lézard Dramatique theatre company took la Mar-mite Infernale on an exceptional adventure. Under the keen, funny, caring and totally musical eye of director Jean-Paul Delore the show ‘Les Hommes’ (Men) was born.

In 2015, over 20 years later, the musicians of la Marmite Infernale launched their own venture to create a musical theatre show. This time, they swept the director into the joyful whirlwind of energy, personalities and colours which make up the ARFI today. They are convinced that, now, with a team half younger and half older, and with the benefit of the experience gained, he will know how to interrogate this tribe of ‘one-man-bandsmen’ again. And reinvent with them a completely new show !

La main dans le chapeauHand in cap Experimental, all publics. Sonic devices and installations, invented instruments, prepared instruments, sonic objects.

With A. Spirli, J-P. Autin, J-M. François, C. Gibert, P. Charbonnier, O. Bost.

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * *Dec. 2015. La Machine Pneumatique, Marseille.

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Arfi is a collective which has always defended musical freedom, imagined by musicians, who, in the great majority, had received no formal musical education and whose artistic develop-ment was often outside the commonly held aesthetic canons. Our aim in this project is to provoke a surprising and unexpected listening experience, through a musical practice which recalls that of the beginner, excluding any-thing which is dictated by virtuosity or habit. The aim is to manipulate sound, nothing more. The strength comes from the way of imagining the music together.

labo Arfievent 2015