"You have to pedal hard, like that, we get the music": in this concert, it is the audience that fuels the stage
Until Sunday, July 27, an artist is touring the villages of Beauvais. The originality of the concept: a stage powered by spectators perched on bicycles, who charge a battery that powers the sound and lights needed for the show.
By Patrick CaffinIn front of the stage, on the small square of the town hall of Frocourt ( Oise ), a village of just over 500 inhabitants located in the Beauvais conurbation, a dozen people are dancing to the sound of Arbas, an artist from Toulouse ( Haute-Garonne ). Between the stage and the audience, ten bicycles. On one of them, Maxime, 9 years old, is having a blast. "You have to pedal hard, that way you can hear the music," he says radiantly.
This evening in Frocourt, on Wednesday, July 2, was the first of a rather unusual tour, which resumes this Thursday, July 24, for four dates: that of La Scène à vélos. Installed on a trailer, the uniqueness of this stage lies in its power supply provided by bicycles on which the audience struggles to produce the electricity that allows the sound and light show to function.
Le Parisien
