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LeL et Victor Sjöström

Le Vent (The Wind)
Cine-concert — École des beaux-arts de Toulouse

Composition and performance: Fred Alstadt (lapsteel, prepared piano), Sébastien Fauvarque (computer), Christophe Guiraud (drums, sampler), Éric Audoubert (guitar), Rémi Loridant (flugelhorn, bass), Yann de Kéroulas (diffusion).

 

The Toulouse-based collective LeL (initially Les Électrons Libres) is a project with variable geometry and multiple influences. Initiated by Frédéric Alstadt and Sébastien Fauvarque, the group has gradually expanded to include four other musicians.


Mastering a wide variety of instruments, LeL produces music that is half instrumental, half electronic, half written, half improvised, which takes on its full meaning live. If music is a starting point for the group, it also leads them towards other forms of expression, such as film-concert, a genre in which they excel. The choice of works set to music, the reflection on the relationship with the image, but above all the ability to create meaning without denying emotion, make each of their creations in this field a real event. In 2002, LeL presented Murnau's Le Dernier des Hommes as part of le Printemps de septembre festival. This year the group has chosen to set Victor Sjöström's masterpiece The Wind to music. The film features Letty, a young girl from Virginia who arrives in Arizona, struggling with a hostile environment, in an arid environment where the wind is omnipresent.