Apprendre à écouter : Anatomie de l’écoute de TM+ et Grand Magasin

Abstract

TM+ and Grand Magasin create a spectacle in order to explore the relation between music and text and to think about the experience of listening to music. Through a naive and referential listening, they encourage the public to define music and to understand what kind of pleasure they take in a concert. Moreover, it becomes clear that the text is sometimes a help for understanding the music and sometimes in competition with it. Lastly, the text suggests that the concert is a kind of ritual and that the pleasure conveyed by music is the pleasure of being together. The text is a means to include every member of the audience in this ritual: without it, people may feel excluded.