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After attempting in 2024 to exhaust a landscape by inventing a sonic double for it, Radio FarWest returns two years later for a new collective journey. This edition draws on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice to paint a sensitive portrait of contemporary states of love. Much like Orpheus—a poet and musician capable of deeply moving others with his song—the station uses music and the human voice as the instruments of this exploration. Over the course of 24 hours, songs, stories, breaths, music, spoken words, and soundscapes map out love in all its variations. Encounters, desire, impatience, anticipation, doubt, loss, and grief become states experienced throughout the broadcasts.
The myth serves as the central thread and narrative framework for these 24 hours of live radio. Like an ancient serial, the story of Orpheus and Eurydice unfolds across 24 episodes, woven between the various programs and spoken segments. From the initial romantic encounter to the descent into the Underworld, and on to Eurydice’s disappearance and Orpheus’s tragic fate, the myth shapes the journey.
Woven around this core narrative are contemporary stories, digressions, songs, and scenes that question how we love today. The radio thus becomes a space where voices circulate—a stream of love connecting a multitude of voices through music and song.
In this way, Radio FarWest allows the ancient poet’s gesture to resonate with contemporary radio creation: singing to express love, loss, and the bonds that connect us.
With Anne James Chaton, poet; David Sanson, author, translator, artistic advisor and musician; Manuel Coursin, sound designer; Françoise Lebeau, programmer at Penmarc’h, Laurent Charreyron, art lover; Manon Carpentier, actress; Juliette Priol, Lauriane Vallée, Louna Porcher Bertho, Eden Méhat, Albane Meignan, students at EESAB-Quimper; Pierre Bayard, professor of literature, author; Zoé Angeli, writer; Severine Vermersch, filmmaker; Mayya Sanbar, actress; Alexandra Duprez, painter; Aude Rabillon, composer, Thierry Gounaud, bookseller; Catherine Marin, bookseller; Eric Thomas, musician and composer; Aurélie Brousse, radio producer; Marion Perrier, singer and musician; Jérôme Lacena, musician; Igor Kleinhans, school teacher and the CM1-CM2 class of the Saint-Guénolé elementary school in Penmarc’h; Véronique Briel, pianist; Yveline Mehat, poet, storyteller; Catherine Viollet, painter; François Lucas, composer, improviser; Virginie Barré, artist, filmmaker; Jeanne Delafosse, filmmaker; Quentin Mevel, film critic; Eimer Bierkbeck, artist; Eva Huchet, student at EESAB Quimper, Lizzie Lowe, student at EESAB Quimper; Lucie Robert, radio producer; Rodolphe Burger, musician and composer; David Christofell, composer; Laïs Decaster, filmmaker; Cécile Druet, actress; Lucien Prunenec, sound manager and musician; Marie-Pierre Bonniol, artist and curator; Philippe Legoff, composer; Laurent Fiévet, artist; Fanny Testas, curator; Rose Felicity, musical artist; Eliot Bryon, EESAB Lorient student; Auxane Caqueret, EESAB Lorient student; Léandre Bellin, EESAB Lorient student; Julie Jadaut, EESAB Lorient student; Vefa Lucas, graphic designer, teacher at EESAB Lorient; Anne-Lise Broyer, artist, teacher at EESAB Lorient; Pierre-Yves Macé, composer, Juliette de Massy, soprano; Gwenaëlle Locher, actress; Clothilde Lacroix, cellist; Claudine Simon, pianist; Arnaud Saury, actor, director; Lucile Bichon, EESAB Quimper student; Michaël Batalla, poet; Florian Stéphant, musician; Sylvain Robic, actor; Tristan Cantin, actor; Emilio Le Tareau, actor; Angèle Prunenec, vocal performer; Tristan Quentin, actor, member of Catalyse, Chloé Delaporte, teacher; Rosa Dekel, middle school student; Mike Lelièvre, sound artist; Sylvain Prunenec, dancer and choreographer; Guillaume Drouadaine, actor.
And Martin Delafosse, sound engineer; Quentin Burel, sound recordist;
Lucien Prunenec, production manager; Malo Prunenec, cook.
Partnerships: Centre Georges Pompidou as part of its Mahmoud Darwish Poetry Day program,
Maison de la poésie de Nantes,
CNCA de Morlaix,
École Européenne Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Quimper and Lorient,
Jet FM (Nantes),
Special thanks to Théâtre Vidy Lausanne.
The programs are open to everyone, subject to availability.
Capacity is limited, so be sure to book!
You can listen to Radio FarWest via the YouTube streaming platform—stay tuned!
This edition will also be broadcast on Jet FM.
Farwest
61 rue François Péron
29760 Penmarc’h
Follow the performance live on www.le-beau-farwest.fr
