ARCHIVES 2012 / Psychopharmaka

Recounting the shared adventures of a friendship marked by many collaborations, Rodolphe Burger and Olivier Cadiot left together in 2011 to travel through Switzerland and Germany. They ventured into the meanders of a language whose gentleness they wanted to have heard: that of Paul Celan, Heiner Müller, Werner Herzog, Schubert, Kraftwerk but also of all the people they randomly met during their journey, with such very marked timbres. A trip like a self-portrait, studded with quotations, things heard and liked, revivals of their own works, Psychopharmaka is a concert that blends in a new way Olivier Cadiot's writing and Rodolphe Burger's music, between a linguistic stroll and musical wanderings, the randomness of sound and the necessities of the intention. Accompanied on stage by the bassist Julien Perraudeau and the drummer Alberto Malo, the two strollers write this love letter to the German language, letting themselves be guided by an absolute subjectivity whose dispersive logic is scattered in a constellation of rhythmic vibrations. The starting point of Psychopharmaka (psychotropic drugs in German) is the figure of Kaspar Hauser, that orphan of Europe whose language remained to be built. It is a romantic project that, in the same artistic momentum, combines an aesthetic utopia and a life project to create a dancing language spoken by Rodolphe Burger's playful guitar, which is used as a counterpoint to the voices recorded and mixed on stage by Olivier Cadiot. MS