Last summer, Carine Henry and Jérôme Bouvet travelled through Rennes with their Stroh violin carnival “instrumentarium”, collecting songs and lullabies from the people of Rennes and later inviting them to meet to hear them being sung in their Tisanerie Sonore, in the courtyard of the Langue et Communication association.

They’re back this summer, again in the quaint courtyard on rue Saint-Melaine, this time accompanied by Bastien Lambert from Compagnie L’Effraie.

Since May, echoing the collection of songs in La Sonothèque Nomade in 2020, the artist, who recently moved to the region, has been creating sound portraits of the residents of Rennes and the nearby municipality of Val d’Ille Aubigné, exploring the intimate relationship we develop with our own voice, our mother tongue and the memories that arise from them. During the festival, under the trees of the courtyard at the Langue et Communication association, “sonophones” or song boxes will let spectators hear voices, songs and lullabies collected in Rennes, inviting them to listen to real-life stories and the imaginary world created by these songs from all walks of life.