ORCHESTRE DE MACHINES À ÉCRIRE workshop

ORCHESTRE DE MACHINES À ÉCRIRE is a participatory music performance with typewriters, based on a graphic score dedicated to Alice Rivaz. An orchestra of typewriters has been
formed with a group of nine people following a precise score composed by K&A. The performance includes a model of the famous Olivetti Lettera 32 that Alice Rivaz herself used, transformed into a musical instrument by Théo Soulié as well as an orchestra of 20 typewriters.
The performance was part of “Le Tiret d’Alice/Episode 2“

The workshop:

ORCHESTRE DE MACHINES À ÉCRIRE is a playful, literary, and musical multidisciplinary project that introduces students to the works of Swiss writer Alice Rivaz while also developing their collective musical skills.

During the workshop you get to:

• Get acquainted with the Swiss writer Alice Rivaz.
• Rehearse and perform a graphic score inspired by her work, using a typewriter as a musical instrument.
• Develop skills in following a conductor and experience the dynamics of an orchestra rehearsal.
• Foster creativity and musicality using an analog machine.
• Work on rhythms and timbres.
• Discover the hidden percussive sounds within a typewriter.