Raw Music and Disability

The project Musiques Brutes et Handicap has the objective to give the opportunity for a group of teenagers with autism spectrum disorders to experiment with music under real conditions of artistic creation. The young people from the Institut Médico-Professionnel Le Roitelet in Tourcoing are working with Franq De Quengo, musician and founder of the raw music festival Sonic Protest, and Thomas Masson, educator, in a musical residency that allows them to experiment with music, sounds and arts in a process of discovery and creation. The participants are involved in workshops and explorations to lead them towards a sensory and intuitive music practice. Using recycled objects, the young artists invent hybrid instruments, in particular by using wild instruments, accompanied by Julien Bancilhon and Benoit Poulain, musicians and luthiers, then, at their own pace and according to their desires, the young people compose songs that they have recorded by revisiting their favorite titles or by composing them.