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The percussionist Krystina Marcoux has been dreaming of it for about twelve years. The creation she is about to present to the public at the festival La semaine du Neuf (organised by Le Vivier), on Thursday, March 5, 2026, at the Espace orange of the Wilder building in Montreal, will be anything but ordinary. At least, that’s the promise that the show Speak No Words/Le silence des mots offers us. I say show intentionally because it is much more than a concert in the traditional sense. With cutting-edge technology allowing the translation of musicians’ gestures into music and even into light shows, in addition to the interpretation on “normal” acoustic instruments, Speak No Words/The Silence of Words promises us an evening where both sound and gesture improvisation will reign, with added driving grooves and even a bit of deconstructed Bach. Wow. The proposal is extremely intriguing and appealing to any music lover with an auditory curiosity (and more). With Stick&Bow (the duo that Krystina forms with cellist Juan Sebastian Delgado) and the Paramirabo ensemble, it is the music of Philippe Macnab-Séguin and the cutting-edge technology of Christophe Lebreton that will be highlighted. I spoke about this creation with the main person involved and designer, Krystina Marcoux.
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