The pivot of Contretemps is the double invitation issued by Bruno Allary to the historian Patrick Boucheron, professor at the Collège de France, and to the kaval flute player Léa Maquart. Their encounter gives substance to an original artistic object, a passionate conversation between verb, music and space, staged and staged by Laurent Gachet. This proposal, at the crossroads of forms and times, mixes with the word of the intellectual the sound flow of baroque and electric guitars, pastoral flutes, digital devices. His four musical and spoken paintings bring

musical works born in the Mediterranean of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, but also the visual culture of the time, to better project words and sounds of today. Concert excerpt