Mécanique Vivante has been wowing the world with its unique inventions and dream machines since 1989.
Port Symphony
Port Symphony, created to celebrate the French Institute’s Mediterranean Season in Marseille, is the fruit of a collaboration between Mécanique Vivante & Campus art Méditerranée.
Symphonie Portuaire - Saison Méditerranée
Port Symphony is a call to the open sea, a musical voyage bringing together the diverse and vibrant cultures and peoples of the Mediterranean (basin).
From the cranes and containers of the port arises a vast and captivating soundscape, a spectacular musical encounter of colours and creeds: a 200-piece fanfare; Mécanique Vivante’s unique polyphonic orchestra of sirens; singers, soloists, percussionists
Artistic direction : Franz Clochard et Raphaël Imbert
Coproduction Institut Français, Ville de Marseille, Campus art Méditerranée, Compagnie Mécanique Vivante
Saturday May 23rd at 21 h 30 – Grand Port Maritime de Marseille – free admission.
Access Port Center,24 bld Jacques Saadé, 13002 MRS
GPS : 43.30097 / 5.364128)
The Sirens' Song
This is the generic title of Mécanique Vivante’s shows created with the world’s only polyphonic Siren Orchestra, which travels the globe.
Création 2024
Project Nénuphar (water-lily)
The mecatronic universe of Mécanique Vivante in conquest of aquatic environments.
Mechanical invention at its most spectacular
Invention is the key – Mécanique Vivante creates things which don’t exist
FRANZ CLOCHARD
Artist-Inventor “To go where the hand of man has never set foot “
The Mechanical Arts production site
From conception to construction, Mécanique Vivantes creates structures and scenography for other companies too.