18/12/2023
https://www.mouvement.net/musique/nico-sauer-voyage-au-bout-de-mon-bide
"Manipulateur du weird" – inspired by my swallowing of a microphone, Mouvement magazine wrote a little portrait about me and my piece Atlantide Acide (Acid Atlantis) in which I go on a journey to an island located inside my stomach. Before the hose goes down the nose, the lonely traveler kills time with dissociative self-observations, musical experiments and auto-entertaining jokes — all sung in a peculiar crooner-Noh psalmody, because after all, it's opera! The stage design (designed by Louise Mute) and the singing performer (me) are wrapped in the same velvet fabric (tailored by Esther-Helin Bienroth) and merge into a homogeneous, melancholic-lilac entity, while the individual on stage slowly disintegrates into body, image, object, subject, voice and membrane.
This journey began long before it premiered on Dec 14. It was a hell of a ride that made me wade through belly button high viscous whirlpools of mental eversion that I would have drowned in, if it hadn't been for my magical tour operator, Swiss army knife and great friend Eugenie Gaudel. Thank you for staying with me when a Tom Hanks would have long lost faith in the mission. Thank you L'équipe de La Pop for handling all the bumps and steep turns with bravery and cool. Thanks to the big ol' lady, the ship La Pop for enduring all the heavy vibrations I sent through your beautiful belly. But don't get me wrong...
The journey isn't over yet.
So long.
Tel un antique Satyricon ou un moyenâgeux bouffon, Nico Sauer ne conçoit la musique que grimé et dans la farce. Cette fois-ci, il propose une traversée de son propre système gastrique pour retrouver les sensations auditives de l’embryon.
