SEPTEMBER 5TH // KERMESSE(S) @ JAZZ A LA VILLETTE 'UNDER THE RADAR' x LA DYNAMO w/ DALIDACARNAGE, AUTOREVERSE, ZOE HESELTON
From 4:00 PM with free admission, offering open access to the nave and garden, the collective presents its famous funfair of playful and experimental sound installations. Around the various booths—where visitors of all ages can try out Ping Pong Noise, Acid Trampoline, Vélocipède, Pendulo-moteurs, @tablée, Dart Jukebox, or a Fitness session—the collective's artists will offer in situ performances blending improvisation, interaction, and acoustic explorations.
Starting at 8:30 PM, the celebration merges with three indoor concerts: the Auto-Reverse duo, the winner of the Coax 2026 call for projects Dalidacarnage (Paola Avilés), and British artist Zoe Heselton, offering a panorama of today's unique, free-spirited, and inventive aesthetics.
An event organized by the Coax Collectif, with the support of La Muse en Circuit.
From 4:00 PM: Free admission
From 8:30 PM, concert ticketing: www.jazzalavillette.com
KERMESSE(S) - From 4:00 PM
With sound as its core pillar, unique figures from the visual, digital, and scenographic arts, performers, and musicians collaborate to offer a dreamlike universe conducive to celebration. Through this eclectic gathering of expertise, each booth is designed as a fully-fledged instrument that can be both experienced by the public and taken over by the collective's artists. The musicians occasionally take hold of the installations for surprising musical happenings. In the background, a whole orchestration is set in motion, with each booth becoming a rhythmic or melodic element from which a unique work emerges. The performance is total; every participant moves within this surprising setup made available to them, and can take part actively or stay at a distance simply to observe and perceive.
• Stands : Acid Trampoline, Pendulo-Moteurs, Noisy Ping-Pong, Flipper Cosmique, Light Pong (Jeu d'adresse percussif), Tengokulo Paradise (Fitness déjanté), Vélocipède, Dart Jukebox (Fléchettes sonores), Mariachi on Fire (Cocktails noise), @Tablée (Table sonorisée), Video Game Party
• Video
DALIDACARNAGE
Paola Avilés, alias Dalidacarnage, is a harpist, performer, and electroacoustic composer navigating between the worlds of contemporary, electronic, and experimental music. Her music is a playground where she manipulates the harp in all its forms: plucked, strummed, struck, caressed, and prepared. Every sound and every vibration is explored, contextualized, or deconstructed using electricity. Through electronic transformation, loops, tape, and noise.
• Paola Avilés (Harpe)
• Audio
AUTOREVERSE
Since 2020, at the very end of the first lockdown, Nina Garcia (aka Mariachi) and Arnaud Rivière—two Parisian artists and activists—joined forces musically in Autoreverse around a pile of speakers to build music that is as immediate as it is incandescent. Attacks without high-pass filters, amplified scrap metal, caught feedbacks, provoked accidents, melodies that drop by but don't stay for dinner, rhythmic sketches and assumed zones of beauty, constructed and fractured textures, counter-points to the line... inside out and right side up: file under high-voltage energy-improvisation-noise!
• Nina Garcia (guitare) & Arnaud Rivière (Electrophone réparé, table de mixage préparée)
• Video
• Audio
ZOE HESELTON (Solo)
Blessed with an exceptional voice that is pliable and powerfully embodied, and a stunt-like approach to the electric guitar, Zoe Heselton—performing solo, in a duo, or a trio—sings what we might call songs for lack of a better word, though they are dizzying heights, high falls, and dances to help us get back up. Armed with an incisive and sensitive electric guitar, she oscillates between vulnerability and power, chronicling darkness and healing. At times melodious, at times dissonant, her songs are litanies for survival, poems of tenderness and rage. Pulsing within them is everything that has always vibrated in the blues.
• Zoe Heselton (Voix, guitare)
• Video
