“The bewitching musical Siren concerts by Mécanique Vivante are hard to forget. (…) The combination of technological research and musical composition is the work of Franz Clochard. (…) Seven years of research were necessary to give the warning sirens the virtues of a real musical instrument.”

“Playing around with frequencies, with fifths and thirds, with breath and voice power, the prevailing winds and the propagation of sounds, the Sirens Song is a concerto for the city, the song of a ferry going out to sea. (…) A Sirens concert on demand - even Homer’s Ulysses could never have imagined that.”

“During the festival, the most surprising sounds, and the most original music merged with familiar noises. But yesterday, something unusual happened in the city, something rare and unusual. The people milling around the square in front of the Town Hall were transfixed, hypnotized by the Sirens’ call. A call from nowhere. Like nothing ever heard before. A cascade of sounds throughout the city, filling the space with every kind of emotion, from laughter to softness.”

“The French presence at the Virada Cultural in Sao Paulo was a flagship event during the year of France in Brazil. Among the compa-nies that had been invited to take part, Mécanique Vivante made a big impact with the Sirens Song. An unusual but monumental instal-lation to say the least, right in the city centre straddling the current and more traditional musical scenes.”

"The public was promised an encounter of the third kind during the opening performance in front of the train station. They were not disappointed. The symphonic orchestra of musical sirens was a meeting of the real and the imaginary, which plunged the whole district into a twilight atmosphere. (...) Suddenly, there was no traffic, no station, no Christmas market. On occasions, we were transported into a kind of totally crazy universe."

"It would be extravagant that wide sections of contemporary or electronic music do not grab a hold this instrument."

"A powerful song, sometimes floating, sometimes rhythmic. A wonderful experience of living, poetic and accessible polyphony. (...) The Sirens Song is something approaching legend."

"When in 1820, Charles Cagniard de la Tour put the finishing touches to his alarm siren, he could never have imagined that an eccentric instrument-maker would one day turn his invention into a symphonic instrument. (...) Just like an unexpected dream, the Sirens Song by the Mécaniques Vivantes brought out a rare but real emotion. A moment of pure magic."

" Inevitably, a delirious and spectacular trip. Mécanique Vivante company will give us the proof that with a little inventiveness, everything is subject to creation. During three nights, the city will be lulled by Iberian and Celtic melodies composed for... an alarm siren."