Mona Creisson
musician, improviser based in Geneva.
violin, viola, voice, composition, electronics.

At 20, I discovered the world of sailing, and the oceans. These immense blue expanses on the maps turned out to be places where millions of living beings coexist, organize themselves, kill each other, symbiose and evolve.
To tour on a sailing boat is to be part of this world of the seas, to be its observers and actors on a small scale, to let oneself be imbued with the issues, the stories, the people and the creatures of the oceans, to go and play in the small bistros facing the sea, and to share a music that is said to be not very accessible, but that the sea spray makes more understandable by all those who are used to feel it on their faces.
It is also about going through different paths, those of sailing boats, those paths that are not the same depending on the direction of the wind, and playing in villages that the earth path have not connected to music in the same way. It is playing for ears, different from those of the big cities and composing music that belongs to the sea coasts.
And finally, it is experiencing a rhythm from another time. A slow life where we don't master time, and in which we share its flow collectively. Music is created by these musicians who agree to take part in the game of slowness and discovery, who agree to move the boat forward day and night, to be salty and wet and to let opportunities pass by playing cards with 5 in the boat, while waiting for the storm to pass.

photo prise par Gregor Vidič
In 2022, Benoît Gautier and Mona Creisson begin a series of musical tours on a sailing boat : La Limule, a 13m50, 3 beds, with a mast and enough space for a double bass.
La Limule transported 4 series of musicians along the Atlantic coasts.
More details on La Limule's insta.
~August 2024, MERCALM, Bretagne
with Mona Creisson viola, voice fx,
Benoît Gautier, bass, fx
~April 2023 and 2024, Killer Whales Music Theory, Bretagne
with Romane Chantre, drums, voice
Mona Creisson, violin, voice
Benoit Guatier, double bass
Gregor Vidič, saxophone
~July 2022, quartet of the Équipage de La Limule, Bretagne
with: Manon Benoîr-Gonin, voice, flute,
Mona Creisson, violin
Benoît Gautier, Double bass
Théo Hanser, saxophone, guitar
~April 2022, L'Orchestre de la Limule Bretagne, Asturias
with: Wendy Gaze, art, voice
Cedric Shaerer, piano, trombone
Flavie Ndam saxophone, drawings
Mona Creisson violin
Benoît Gautier, double bass

photo prise par Mona Creisson

photo de Killer Whales Music Theory prise par Tristant Barbey

photo de et prise par Killer Whales Music Theory
dessin de Flave Ndam

Viva la Musica, journal de l'AMR, 2023