HUMANOPHONES COMPANY
“Pulses of the heart and the mind, Humanophones is a return to the essence, to the natural with a wild and liberating universal character. " A spectator
ABOUT THE COMPANY
The Company of Humanophones was created by Rémi Leclerc in 2013 with the propose to facilitate human and artistic encounters around the music and body expression. An imperious desire to return to the essentials : the body, the voice.
The Humanophones refers to themselves as “anatomical concert performers”. There’s a transversality of disciplines in their work. Always navigating between dance, physical theater and their bodies used as music instruments.
Today, through their original music, they invite and challenge their audience to appreciate the possibilities of the human body and consider its strength and sensitivity. Whilst they explore the different levels of the social interaction, bringing out situations in a poetic way through humorous characters.
Rémi Leclerc brought together five artists to create CORPUS.
He founded Humanophones company to produce this first show “Corpus” in 2014 which has been played more than 300 times internationally. They released their first album in 2017 under the label “Socadisc” which won the prize SACEM from self-production in 2016.
“CORPUS” brings firstly together five artists with a strong expressiveness and of a remarkable complicity, (Leila Martial, Bastien Picot, Wab, Simon Filippi.) giving a space for the public to question the distance that contemporary man creates with his own body.
This first show has brought to the company the recognition from famous body music artists around the globe (Keith Terry, founder of the International Body Music Festival, Fernando Barba of Barbatuques, Tupac Mantilla…).
2019 is the year when their show I WANT YOU BACH comes out, as a special piece for the Festival Passe ton Bach d’abord, through which they explore the body music possibilities around the universe of Bach’s music.
ANTROPUS new anatomical concert (sextet) was created in 2022 . LISTEN HERE THE NEW PREMIX ALBUM
THE HEDGEHOG’S DILEMMA The fresh and new show Duet of Physical and musical theater created is 2023.
HUMAN’ORCHESTRA that regularly brings together all the Humanophones in one orchestral dimension for the main propose of recording video clips with special arrangements.
PRESS
” A virtuous energy ” JAZZNEWS
” Primitive and bold” FIP
” The successful fusion between the music world and circus ” ARTE TV GERMAN/ FRANCE
“They are followers of vocal and zygomatic gymnastics who know how to articulate the inarticulable” FRANCE MUSIQUE / RADIO FRANCE
“Pulses of the heart and the mind, Humanophones is a return to the essence, to the natural with a wild and liberating universal character. ” A SPECTATOR
REFERENCES
INTERNATIONAL VENUES – WORLD MUSIC FESTIVAL
Paleo Festival (Switzeland), Pumpwerk Festival, Rudolstadt World Festival (Germany), CAPE (Luxembourg), CRR d’Evry (91), Art’Cade (09), Festival 31 Notes d’Eté (31), Les Docks (46), Le Métronum (31), Le Bikini (31), Lo Bolegason (81)
INTERNATIONAL FESTIVALS
Le Paleo (Switzerland), International Acappella Woche 2016 & 2023 (Germany), Festival Voicemania (Austria), Hanover Festival Acapella (Germany), Vaasa choir festival (Norway), Festival Pumpwerk (Wilhelmshaven-Germany), Chor.com (Germany), Black forest Voices (Germany), Veus Festival (Spain)
INTERNATIONAL BODY MUSIC FESTIVAL
International Body Music Festival (Terni – Italie) 2015
International Body Music Festival (Paris – France) 2016
International Body Music Festival (Ghana) 2018
NATIONAL VENUES & CULTURAL CENTERS & INSTITUTIONS OF FRANCE
L’Astrada Marciac (32), Espace Croix Baragnon (31), Espace Roguet (31), La Fabrique(31), L’Escale (31), Le Grain à moudre (32), Même sans le train (82), La Cave poésie (31), Le théâtre de verre (75), L’Espace Job (31), Bibliothèque d’étude et du patrimoine de Toulouse (31), La Coupole (06), Aglo Pays d’Issoire (63), La Prison de Perpignan, Algorythme (81)
STREET FESTIVALS
Festival la Rue des Artistes (42), Festival International de théâtre de Rue d’Aurillac (15), Vivacité (47)
FRENCH FESTIVAL
La novela (31), 31 notes d’été, Ville de Blagnac (31), Festi’Art (31), Art’Air (63), Festival Cirque & Paillettes (31), La Nuit de la Voix (53)
JAZZ FESTIVAL
Jazz à Millau (12), Jazz dans le Bocage (03), Jazz sur son 31 (31), Festival des jazz de St Raphael (83)
CLASSICAL MUSIC FESTIVAL
Festival d’Obernai
CLUBS
Le Studio de l’Ermitage (75), La Bellevilloise (75), Le Mandala (31), Le Taquin (31), L’âge d’or (75), Cafe Schalotte ( Berlin), Jazzhaus (Freiburg)
PARTNERS
The Humanophones Company is supported by the Regional Directorate of Cultural Affairs of France (DRAC Occitanie), the regional council of Occitanie, the general council of Haute-Garonne, the Town Hall of Toulouse, Adav 31, Sacem, Spedidam.