Rencontre au coin du cantou, Philippe Le Goff
From November to June, Les Nuits & les Jours de Querbes presents an intimate, warm cultural season that brings audiences up close to the artists. In front of the vast fireplace at Querbes, but also beyond its walls—in Figeac, Peyrusse-le-Roc, and Capdenac-Gare!
As an ethnomusicologist, Philippe Le Goff has devoted his life to the culture and language of the Inuit. Drawing on his fieldwork experience, he has transcribed the famous “sung verbal contests” of these peoples and composed the music for numerous plays dedicated to them. In his work, he explores the relationship between written cultures and so-called “non-written” cultures, demonstrating in particular how the Inuit “read” and describe their environment with an extraordinarily rich vocabulary. He advocates for orality as a major form of learning, transmission, and social bonding.