Keyboard Clamors!
With the second event dedicated to this series, poetry will make its voice heard through the vibrant texts of several Geneva-based authors, accompanied and revealed by the intriguing and captivating sounds of musical instruments, both prominent and discreet. The clamor of enthusiasm or revolt is rumbling... lend an ear, raise your voice, take in the sound!
Martin Rueff
Martin Rueff is a poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator. After teaching at the University of Bologna and Paris VII-Diderot, he has been a professor at the University of Geneva since 2010. He is a regular contributor to the journals Po&sie, La Polygraphe, and Passage à l'Act, and edits the “Terra d'Altri” collection at Verdier, which specializes in Italian literature. At Gallimard, he was responsible for editing the works of Cesare Pavese in the “Quarto” collection and participated in the editing of the works of Claude Lévi-Strauss in the “Bibliothèque de la Pléiade” collection, as well as those of Michel Foucault in 2015.
He participates in numerous literary festivals and is a regular at the Marché de la poésie de Paris, as well as Histoire et Cité in 2022, the Festival du Livre de Paris in 2023, Oh Les Beaux jours in Marseille, Nature en Livres—an eco-poetics of villages in Burgundy...
He believes in verse, rejects modesty, and is suspicious of identification. He maintains that poetry, like Dante's panther, is a few steps ahead. He never runs out of steam. He has several books of poetry ahead of him.
Melissa Cascarino
Melissa Cascarino was born in Paris in 1978. Originally from the mountains near Naples, she is culturally and linguistically French and Italian. She trained professionally in contemporary dance and classical piano in Paris, Brussels, Rome, Marseille, and the Basque Coast. She holds a prize for piano virtuosity from the Royal Conservatory of Brussels (1999) and, in 2003, while in Geneva, she obtained a Dalcroze eurhythmics license.
Melissa Cascarino's first artistic experiences were at the heart of political struggles and solidarity movements in Paris, notably alongside undocumented migrants. After diverse experiences in dance and music in Paris linked to the worlds of politics, cinema, philosophy, and literature, she worked for several years with various companies as a dancer, choreographer, and pianist in Marseille, Toulon, Bayonne, and Italy.
In 2013, Melissa Cascarino published a collection of poems with Aletti Editore, La postura della clessidra. In 2011, she founded the Velvet Blues company in Geneva.
Pierre Dunand Filliol, music
Sound artist, composer, and teacher Pierre Dunand Filliol lives and works in Geneva.
He holds a bachelor's degree in arts from the University of Geneva (art history, French medieval literature, American literature), he studied piano and organ at the Jacques Dalcroze Institute and, later, electroacoustic music at the Conservatoire Populaire; he then founded a workshop for the construction of period harpsichords, where for more than ten years he produced instruments and conducted research in organology; his activities then turned to active teaching methods in the digital field (programming, graphic design, robotics, music);
as a composer and researcher, his productions relate to “fixed sounds” (concrete music), musical synthesis, sound transduction, and algorithmic music;
As a musician and improviser, he performs in shows/exhibitions using algorithmic sound generators, signal processing, video, and installations. More recently, he has been using modular analog electronic devices in live concerts.
Viva Sanchez Reinoso
A multifaceted artist with a passion for sound, Viva Sanchez Reinoso produces shows, concerts, and performances that blend classical repertoire, improvised music, and multidisciplinary creation. She has had a passion for the music of Johann Sebastian Bach for several years, is actively involved in contemporary music and creation, and practices improvisation and composition, seeking new sounds in as wide a variety of aesthetic fields as possible (experimental, jazz, world music, electronic music). She performs in Switzerland, France, Germany, Canada, Argentina, South Africa, Russia, Austria, Cyprus, Belgium, and Holland, and these professional trips allow her to discover the world and diverse cultures, bringing back ideas, sensations, questions, and a heightened curiosity.
