Formed in 1993, L’Effet Vapeur (Jean-Paul Autin, Xavier Garcia, Guillaume Grenard, Alfred Spirli – members of ARFI) has toured stages across France and around the world with its inventive and exuberant music. Following the success of Bobines Mélodies (over 200 performances), the group is adapting its latest repertoire RING in 2025 for young audiences, under the title (d)RiiiiNG.

Virtuoso multi-instrumentalists and sound-object manipulators, the musicians combine traditional instruments, electronic devices, and repurposed materials to create a sensory experience that is playful, poetic, and offbeat. Musical gestures become a spectacle in their own right.

(d)RiiiiNG emphasizes play, surprise, and visual imagery: a carousel of suspended toys, sound cards, instrument battles... The staging unfolds as a poetic narrative, supported by meticulous scenography (lighting, costumes, set design).

(d)RiiiiNG is a sound laboratory run by three slightly crazy researchers, assisted by their rather clumsy factotum. Nothing can stop their thirst for experiments, each more incongruous than the last. While at the beginning of the show everything seems to be “hidden” behind a futuristic and abstract veil, our scientists' “experiments” gradually fill the space with a myriad of recycled sound objects of various appearances. By the end, the stage is completely saturated with objects as unusual as they are colorful. The staging highlights the encounters, tensions, and complicity between the different characters, who embody both fantasy and ultra-modernity.

• Premiere: October 2025
• Audience: Ages 6 and up
• Duration: 45 minutes