
NEO-MYTHOLOGY
Hybrid Chamber Opera
Musical immersive Performance in 5 'Tableaux Vivants'
Supported by RCM Accelerate (Royal College of Music) and Treephonia
The audience takes part in ‘Tableaux vivants’, fully immersed.
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As a duo, Lucie Cure and Yoanna Bochowski create and embody characters with ancient myths foundations placed in nowadays context. Appears from the landscape Neo-Mythological Figures as a human reflections of nature through time, wood, fire, water and air spirit elements.
An immersive musical performance in 5 parts echoing with the climate and ecological crisis and resonating with the protection of biodiversity.
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For the ears, Lucie’s hybrid composition intertwines classical music, Lyrical singing with experimental electronic music and diverse voice aesthetics. For the visuals, Yoanna creates immersive scenography as an art installation and costume designs playing with raw textures, organic materials and weaving techniques.​
Music played Live :
Adaptable, the piece can be performed with instrumentalists playing live or with a pre-recorded version of the piece where only the performer(s) is/are singing live. Each 'Tableau Vivant' can be performed as one piece of its own.​​
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Music composition :
The piece has a Neo-Mythological aspect through intertwining classical music (chamber orchestra, score, Opera singer) with experimental music (drones, ambient music, amplified voice, pre-recorded sounds, diverse voice techniques).
The piece is composed for 5 singers, 1 flute, 2 violins, 1 viola, 1 cello, 1 doublebass and electronics. Can be performed live by only one singer.

Neo Hybrid Chamber Opera
Audio Visual Version. 8 minutes video.
Bark skin as a Neo Dryad reawakens to unite forest & humanity through intricate mirror-like connections. Ancient forest spirit invites to a dance ritual, nudging modern minds to recall our intertwined journey. This hybrid enigma sparks vital change, jolting our ailing world, where nature's voice wanes.
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Artistic Direction: Yoanna Bochowski and Lucie Cure
Choreography: Carla Assié
Dance : Carla Assié and Lucie Cure
Scenography and Costume Design: Yoanna Bochowski
​Music composition and Voice : Lucie Cure
Mix and Mastering : Finn Idress Gilfedder-Cooney
Movie Directors: Paul Ruehr, Yoanna Bochowski and Lucie Cure
DOP: Louis Sechaud
First Camera Assistant : Clotilde Duong-Van-Huyen
Steadicam Operator : Colin Guerre
Video Editing : Lucie Cure
Color grading : Maxime Garnaud
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Premiered during DEBUT FEST at the Huset, Copenhagen, Sept 23
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BARK SKIN
Part of Neo-Mythology

TREE OF LIVES
Art Installation music composition- 30min
The installation "The Tree of Lives" seeks to think about connection through words. Leaving a trace of oneself, for oneself and another. Connecting, moving from the self to the whole. The music composition is expressing a feeling of unity through sometimes spoken words and mostly vowels that can express the inexpressible.
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Art Installation : Marina Bernardi and Yoanna Bochowski
Poems : Marina Bernardi, Yoanna Bochowski, Lucie Cure and Vincent Zulawski
Music Installation : Lucie Cure
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Conscious Festival at La Caserne, Paris 2021.
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THE CREATION
OF HUMANITY
Music Composition for Art Installation - 30min
Through a composite installation, artist Yoanna Bochowski invites us to immerse ourselves in Philippine civilisation by diving into myths and legends of the archipelago. The installation is made by three distinct elements that communicate with each other. A canvas featuring superimposed writings of the myth "Ang Paglálaláng" - "The Creation of Man", a set of neo-parchments hung in the space, and finally, on the floor, placed on piles of earth, three anthropomorphic terracotta jars.
The Art installation is accompanied by an auditive scenery of ten different voices, textures, samples and patterns. The sound atmosphere invites visitors to immerse themselves in a chronological journey in which the Filipino myth - The Creation of Man - is spoken in 14 different languages, reflecting the linguistic history of the Philippines from the 3rd century to the present day.
Special thanks to all the participants for their voice recordings.
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Art Installation : Yoanna Bochowski
Music Installation : Lucie Cure
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Don Papa Art Program at the Bastille Design Center, Paris 2022.
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