Gestème

A film by Aurélien Poidevin about the research project led by Marc-André Rappaz, 2014.

The Gestème project studies the involvement of the body and gesture in the genesis of a musical work, in the playing of the musicians who perform it, in the relationship to the body that it arouses through dance and in the metaphorical and emotional descriptions of the people who listen to it.

The project includes the creation of four works for orchestra and dance on the theme of the seasons, several experiments in the form of questionnaires, recorded and filmed interviews, recordings with VICON sensors and physiological or cerebral sensors, as well as recordings with a thermal camera to measure the impact of the modulation of musical expressivity, particularly emotional, gesture on a panel of music lovers.