A certain sense of celebration. This is what the city of Versailles shows it has by organizing, for the fourth year, the ÉlectroChic festival. Since its creation, other municipalities have joined the dance: Chaville, Fontenay-le-Fleury, Jouy-en-Josas, Saint-Cyr-l'École and Vélizy-Villacoublay. Concerts dedicated to beat and drop will be held there in muffled atmospheres, between Thursday 12 and Saturday 14 March. The highlight of the festivities, the artist Prequell will go to the Montansier theater on Friday evening the 13th, under the gold of this building inaugurated by Louis XVI in person.
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Prequell, Thomas Roussel of his real name, mixes classical instrumentation and electronic music. In 2017, he played on the Seine, installed with 80 musicians on a floating athletics track. A great show celebrating Paris' victorious bid to organize the 2024 Olympic Games. He will play at Montansier, a 240-year-old theater, his album The Future Comes Before . Epic compositions, where catchy strings and very rhythmic percussions collide.
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Arnaud Rebotini, César 2018
Another highlight, Arnaud Rebotini will be on Saturday at the Onde Theater in Vélizy-Villacoublay. A room of just over 600 seats. This electronic music composer is responsible for the soundtrack of 120 beats per minute . She had won him a César in 2018. The 50-year-old DJ defends a “beautiful techno” , as he likes to say, and works almost without a computer, with synthesizers and rhythm machines. A creative process that he will detail on March 12 at the Versailles Grand Parc conservatory during a "musical meeting" with the students. The public will be able to attend. Half an hour of exchange with the musician will be reserved for them.
The festival will also adapt the exercise of the film concert to electro. Thus the silent burlesque comedy L'Étroit Mousquetaire by Max Linder, produced in 1922, and La Jetée by Chris Marker, will be set to music. This great science fiction work released in 1962 is a series of black and white images with a simple voiceover. What sounds will DJ Mad Hatter and saxophonist Maxime Tisserand pose on this object, as experimental as it is poetic?
Find the full program on the ÉlectroChic festival website . From Thursday 12 to Saturday 14 March. Versailles, Chaville, Fontenay-le-Fleury, Jouy-en-Josas, Saint-Cyr-l'École, Vélizy-Villacoublay. Prices: between 5 and 30 euros. Arnaud Rebotini's musical meeting is free but places are limited.
