Mylène Dubiau - Anakarsis

Classical, death metal, pop, indie rock, reggae... Every style of music is compatible with the poetry and prose of Charles Baudelaire. That’s the takeaway from the Baudelaire Song Project, a digital platform headed up by Helen Abbott (University of Birmingham) and Mylène Dubiau (Université Toulouse Jean-Jaurès). Combining literature and music, this project collects adaptations of Baudelaire’s poems from around the world (49 countries, 25 languages) and analyzes the compositions. It is now possible, for example, to compare Baudelaire’s celebrated Invitation au voyage in versions by Henri Duparc, Léo Ferré and François Atlas. Doctor of musicology Mylène Dubiau presents the research project, and dreams up with Anakarsis, a duo made up of Argil and Marc Vyler, a live listening session, proving that 200 years after his birth, one of the greatest names in French poetry remains a source of inspiration for numerous artists.