Programme

l vemusic:
Protest of the Physical

Bodies of sound, spaces of resistance
Espace Découverte
Fri
Part of the rainy days 2025 on -

Today’s music is overly intellectual? The 2025 festival rainy days grabs this cliché by the throat, choosing «bodies» as its theme. Bodies and physicality have always interested the arts. Especially in music, the subject is ambiguous, the idea that the body cannot do without spirit, nor the spirit without the body, more than a bon mot. The multitude of approaches to the body and bodies is reflected in the festival’s programme, once again designed for diehard fans of contemporary music and those who are simply curious alike, offering something for almost all age groups.

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What you’ll hear and see

The music

  • Annette Schlünz, Anne-Hélène Kotoujansky In die Ferne, dem Berg zu (création)
  • Nik Bohnenberger hands, drum – three bones (création, commande Philharmonie)
  • Bethany Younge Seed (création)
  • Helmut Oehring [iɱˈfɛrno] Contrapasso I – V (à Wladimir Poutine / Sergej Lawrow) (Mappa)

The artists

  • lovemusic

In Protest of the Physical, lovemusic offers an experience in four tableaux,

in which the performers’ bodies are not merely vehicles for instrumental execution, but fully embodied physical presences on stage – both intrinsically intertwined with the music and its physical demands, and serving as a foil to highlight how gesture shapes our listening experience. By incorporating artists from different disciplines into the creative process, questioning the role of the audience itself, and using the body as an expressive tool of communication, the collective also seeks to reclaim their position as unique performers on stage, rather than replaceable «instrumentalists».

Supported by Jazz & New Music, a program of Villa Albertine and Albertine Foundation, Impuls Neue Musik, Mécénat Caisse des Dépôts, Conseil Régional Grand Est, Ville de Strasbourg, Spedidam and Adami. lovemusic is a recipient of the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung Ensemble Prize 2025
Nik Bohnenberger's play is supported by the PwC Luxembourg Foundation, under the auspices of the Fondation de Luxembourg.

Tickets

  • Free seating 20 €
Festival pass (4 days): 58 €
Kulturpass welcome
The sale begins on
18.09.2025
10:00
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Details

  • Date Friday 21.11.25
  • Time 18:00
  • Duration 60
  • Room Espace Découverte
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