article 10 [prismes] (2021) – marathon gaité lyrique, paris, france

On Saturday 13 December 2025 at 19:00 CET, French cellist Marie Ythier performs the solo piece article 10 [prismes] (2021) by Rozalie Hirs during the Marathon! at the Gaité Lyrique, in Paris, France.

For its tenth edition, Marathon! stays true to its mission of bringing together repetitive and electronic music in a single evening for one audience. In addition to the regulars of Marathon! (the Cabaret Contemporain group and Ensemble Links, who will perform a program featuring Different Trains by Steve Reich and Shaker Loops by John Adams), we are thrilled to welcome this year’s new projects, including Jacques, the new work by Fabrizio Rat My End is My Beginning, Canblaster, Lisa More, and live acoustic solos in both the Modern and Historic Foyers of the Gaité Lyrique.

Jacques (live)
With his unique lifestyle and unfiltered expressions, Jacques has made a name for himself as an artist who provokes thought, confusion, disgust, and/or adoration. While many remember his unconventional hairstyle, it is his constant reinvention that makes him truly recognizable. From his nomination for the Victoires de la Musique to his theory of the Vortex and his carefully disorganized sonic experiments, Jacques is a free spirit navigating the challenges he sets for himself. For his new live show, he now plays with cutting, looping, and composing short film clips, documentaries, YouTube videos, or even videos of his everyday life. Alongside his objects, rockets taking off, barking dogs, and crying babies become his new instruments. Jacques pushes his own limits even further, offering a concert that is both noisy and danceable, where sound and image interact in real time.

Canblaster & Neurotypique: NEUROSCAN A/V Live
A collaboration between Canblaster and Neurotypique, NEUROSCAN explores the possibility of a shared language between sound and image in a space where music becomes visual data and light becomes an acoustic event. Born from their research at IRCAM, the project merges Canblaster’s modular syntax with Neurotypique’s generative visual architectures, crafted in Touch Designer – a real-time creation software that links image, data, and motion. The result: a living, audioreactive system where each sonic impulse generates its own morphic response. A scientific and poetic experience that blurs the lines between perception, writing, and emergence.

Canblaster (Cédric Steffens) is one of the leading figures in the French electronic music scene. Having transitioned from video games to clubs, from UK garage to IDM, he has developed an emotional and physical approach to sound over more than a decade, fueled by modular experimentation and a quest for groove.

Neurotypique (Sébastien Mercier) delves into real-time visual creation, finding new grammar in the mundane and unexpected. A graphic designer and art director by training, he now works on the direct correspondence between image and sound through generative environments designed in Touch Designer.

Cabaret Contemporain (live)
No introduction is needed for this familiar group at Marathon! The five musicians continue to craft electronic music produced entirely by instruments. Here, the drum machine isn’t created by machines, but rather through the preparation of the instruments (piano, drums, double bass, and guitar). For this 2025 edition, the group will unveil their latest pieces, ahead of the release of their new album.

Different Trains by Steve Reich & Shaker Loops by John Adams performed by Ensemble Links (live)
Ensemble Links will present two iconic pieces of American minimalist music at the center of the Grand Hall at Gaité Lyrique. First, Different Trains by Steve Reich, a string quartet with tape, composed when the American composer lived between New York and Los Angeles during his parents’ divorce. The piece uses speech recordings as musical material. Then, Shaker Loops by John Adams, a string septet based on loops and waves.

My End is My Beginning, by Fabrizio Rat, Linda Olah, and Isabel Sörling (live)
Dream-pop on acid? Interstellar electro? Celestial synthwave? Any attempt to categorize this mesmerizing and cosmic music quickly proves futile, as it creates a soundscape so unique and fresh, evoking the feeling of encountering a new sonic world. It sometimes feels like a stratospheric collision between Björk and Aphex Twin. Emerging from the tension between crystalline voices (often used in canon) and synthetic oscillations, amplified by various effects (reverb, saturation, dilation…), this music is both repetitive and ever-evolving, unfolding in layers of carefully (re)composed sound within an expansive, seemingly infinite space-time. With no unnecessary elements, the music strikes a perfect balance between complexity and clarity.

Lisa More (live)
Lisa More has become an essential figure in the French electronic music scene, born in the volcanic city of Clermont-Ferrand. After learning DJing from her father (a DJ and record shop owner) as a child, and organizing her own raves as a teenager, she went on to play at the club that defined her evolution, the 101, in 2016. Shortly after, she joined the unique team behind the club, becoming a resident and organizer for the Blue Nights.

Pianoïd, by Edouard Ferlet (live)
The magical fascination that happens on stage comes largely from the complex setup designed to utilize the latest sound processing and music production technologies, all in service of Edouard Ferlet’s compositions. Drawing on influences from Bach to Moondog, Ferlet’s work blends beautiful melodies and rhythmic syncopation with a subtle, sensitive touch. Pianoïd is a performance where the pianist reshapes his own compositions – often surpassing even his imagination – while activating pre-programmed sequences, moving like a dancer from the keyboard to the inner workings of the piano, embodying a pianist free from academic rigidity and presenting the piano in a whole new light.

Improvisations on Bach and Marsili, by Léo Belthoise (live)
Léo Belthoise explores Bach’s ostinato on violin, gradually drifting towards Ambient Techno, passing through the electroacoustic tango of Andrea Marsili.

Viola Spaces by Knox, Elegie by Stravinsky, Solo Viola Sonata by Ligeti, performed by Elodie Gaudet (live)
This 10th edition of Marathon! continues its focus on string instruments, with a solo acoustic program featuring works by Knox, Stravinsky, and Ligeti.

Marie Ythier (live)
The Marathon! evening continues with acoustic solo programs in the foyers of La Gaîté Lyrique, featuring pieces from our shared master (Bach!) and a contemporary work (here, article 10 by Rozalie Hirs), performed by cellist Marie Ythier.

Date: December 13, 2025
Doors open: 7:00 PM
Location: Gaité Lyrique, Paris, France
Event: Marathon!
Performer: Marie Ythier (cello)