The wealth and strangeness of the most ordinary forms of speech come alive.

Words are born, live, and die in Suite n˚2, a chorale work for five solo voices. The vocalists sing the “spoken” words as uttered on a collection of sound recordings taken from everything from political speeches to bad TV to radical poetry and street conversations. The sound of each word is imbued with the same inflection, rhythm, hesitation, breath as it was originally spoken. Woven into a musical score the “spoken” words create complex harmonies, drama, humor, and a sense of mischief.

This virtuoso choral suite of many languages (with English supertitles) takes audiences on a procession of words that dance, words that decide, threaten, condemn, that join ranks and separate, words that crumble and rise from the dust, naked words, and words dressed in Versace.

Conceived by Encyclopédie de la parole | Composition and Direction Joris Lacoste | Composer Pierre-Yves Macé | Singers Vladimir Kudryavtsev, Emmanuelle Lafon, Nuno Lucas, Barbara Matijevic, Olivier Normand