François Chaignaud et Aymeric Hainaux
Mirlitons

AYMERIC HAINAUX
With his background in the visual arts, (he first turned to cartoon stip at the Beaux-arts d’Angoulême, then to painting) Aymeric Hainaux is invested in a very personal approach of the human beatbox. He creates machine sounds so precise as the famous Roland TR909, and his incomparable technique makes him one of the prominent artists of this art.
Hainaux “plays what happens,” and his performances are a music of the present instant, attentive to silence and movement. Without a loop pedal, but the use of a microphone, some bells, a harmonica, and sometimes a cassettes player, all exclusively played in real time.
He has collaborated with Christine Quoiraud, Tanya Tagaq, Kenzo Kusuda, Oguri, Erik M, and Anne Lise Le Gac.
In 2005, he began a solo tour by hitchhiking. This adventure lasted eight years during which he traveled 40 thousand kilometers each year— from Meknes to Copenhagen and from Tallin to Rome—and staged 700 performances on 3 continents. With banjo player Stéphane Barascud, in 2013, he created the music brut duo Cantenac Dagar, which proposed un rituel pour l’invention d’une sensibilité radicale (Sonic Protest festival, 2017). The group has released a dozen records, and this duo remains Hainaux’s main musical project. The diversity of his projects also brings him to performs in the backrooms of restaurants and art venues. These include, in France, Mixart Myrys, the CND (Centre National de la Dance), Les Siestes Électroniques, the Palais de Tokyo, and the Sonic Protest festival. His label Isola Records, which he has been running since 2011, makes books, cassettes, CDs and records of artists and groups working at the borders of concerts and performances. He also has a practice of poetic writing and publishing.
In 2023, he contributed to the soundtrack for Clément Cogitore’s film Goutte D’or.

FRANÇOIS CHAIGNAUD
After graduating from the National Superior Conservatory of Paris for Music and Dance in 2003, François Chaignaud has collaborated with many choreographers (Alain Buffard, Boris Charmatz, Emmanuelle Huynh or Gilles Jobin). Since 2004, he has taken up the multifaceted position of dancer, choreographer, singer, actor, historian, and cabaret artist. His work—marked since the beginning by the intersection of dance and singing (Думи мої, 2013)—is enriched by extensive historical research articulated in both his personal and collaborative works, (the latter executed with Jérôme Marin, Marie Caroline Hominal, or Théo Mercier). Between 2005 and 2016, he created with Cecilia Bengolea multiple shows including Sylphides (2009), (M)IMOSA (with Trajal Harrell and Marlene Monteiro Freitas, 2011), and Dub Love (2013). In 2021, he founded Mandorle Productions to encourage a collaboration-based artistic production. With Nino Laisné, he created Romances inciertos, un autre Orlando (2017), and with Marie-Pierre Brébant Symphonia Harmoniæ Cælesitum Revelationum (2019). In 2020, he co-authored GOLD SHOWER with the butoh icon Akaji Maro, and made Un boléro with Dominique Brun. His work also includes pieces he has made for dance companies. In 2018, he created Soufflette for fourteen dancers of the Norwegian ballet company Carte Blanche. In 2022, he created t u m u l u s, a work for thirteen performers, with Geoffroy Jourdain (Les Cris de Paris). In June 2023 he created Cortèges with the composer Sasha J. Blondeau and will create will create the piece Mirlitons with the beatboxer Aymeric Hainaux in October. His work has been presented worldwide, and he is an associate artist at Bonlieu, Scène Nationale d’Annecy, at Chaillot – Théâtre national de la Danse in Paris as well as at the Maison de la danse and the Biennale de la danse de Lyon.

Conception and interpretation : Aymeric Hainaux & François Chaignaud
Artistic collaborator : Sarah Chaumette
Costume design : Sari Brunel
Lights design: Marinette Buchy régie générale Marinette Buchy, Anthony Merlaud régie son Jean-Louis Waflart, Patrick Faubert, Aude Besnard
Production : Mandorle productions (Garance Roggero, Jeanne Lefèvre, Emma Forster)
International diffusion agency : APROPIC–Line Rousseau–Marion Gauvent
Mandorle productions is financed by le Ministère de la Culture (DRAC Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes) and la Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. François Chaignaud is an associate artist at Bonlieu Scène nationale Annecy, at Chaillot – Théâtre national de la Danse and la Maison de la danse et à la Biennale de la danse de Lyon.
Coproductions : MC93 – Maison de la Culture de Seine-Saint-Denis (FR) Festival d’Automne à Paris (FR) Charleroi danse, centre chorégraphique de Wallonie – Bruxelles (BE) Maison de la Danse, Lyon – Pôle européen de création (FR) Festival Next (FR / BE) Theater Rotterdam (NL) Triennale di Milano (IT) KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen Hannover (DE) Bonlieu Scène nationale Annecy (FR)
With the support of : Espace Pasolini/Laboratoire artistique Valenciennes (FR) La Villette, Paris – Initiatives d’Artistes (FR) Malraux, scène nationale de Chambéry Savoie (FR) Les Aires – Théâtre de Die et du Diois, scènes conventionnées d’intérêt national – « Art en territoire » (FR)
Special thanks to : Balakumar, Edouard Prabhu, Prune Becheau