« We are nine voices, sighted and blind, who have been singing and exploring together for 11 years. Our practice consists of listening to and imitating sound ecosystems. We become the sounds of biotopes, machines, endangered species, humans and non- humans. Our songs blend ancestral and experimental vocal practices. We are the stumbling blocks of a memory populated by tunes, buried melodies that emerge and carry us away for hybridizations, mutations. »
In 2012, Natacha Muslera (vocalist, improviser, composer, researcher) breathes life into a choir of sighted and blind people. Choeur tac-til is a choir without a conductor, wherein Natacha proposes a composition mode far from the visual field, developped in partnership in an ever-changing practice of free improvisation.
This album retraces ten years of shared practice in which vocal explorations indoors (in residence at The Gmem, National centre for music creation) and outdoors are intertwined, with the sound ecosystems of the Calanques massif, the city of Marseille and the Sainte-Baume forest.