La muë (2025) featured in a documentary

This video feature explores the creative process behind Justina Repečkaitė’s work La Muë (2024), co-commissioned for the Janus project by IRCAM and the Center of Baroque Music Versailles (CMBV). It forms part of the documentary series Le troisième monde: A Meeting of Baroque and Electronic Music by Laure Bourru (Melocoton Films), which will premiere on June 14, 2025 at 17:00 at the CMBV during the Journée découverte.

Janus project (2022 - 2025) brings together four young composers from IRCAM’s cursus program, each invited to compose for the CMBV singers, period instruments, and electronics. Drawing inspiration from French baroque repertoire of the 17th and 18th centuries, the project creates bridges between early music and contemporary technologies, blending voices, electronics, historical instruments, and new forms.

Full documentary “Janus (2022–2025) : dialogue entre musique baroque et création contemporaine” by Laure Bourru Production : Melocoton Films:

A few years in the making, the Janus project is now immortalised in the Melocoton Films documentary Le troisième monde. Director Laure Bourru brought a unique vision to portraying each composer’s creative process — and I truly feel she captured our ideas with great sensitivity. Janus, born from a unique partnership between IRCAM and the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles, brought together four co-commissioned works:

Ariadna Alsina Tarrés — Split Screen Vestiges (2023), for viola da gamba, choir & electronics

Justina Repečkaitė — La muë (2024), for serpent, children’s choir & electronics

Jug Marković — Stabat Mater (2024), for viola da gamba, mixed choir & electronics

Adrien Trybucki — Incre simulacre (2025), for double choir & electronics

RIMS — Johann Philippe & João Svidzinski