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Colette Tougas at Ultimatum Festival 1985-05-01
The following is a transcription of the Colette Tougas set at Ultimatum, Wednesday, May 1st, 1985 at the Foufounes Electriques. Tougas performs "Clara La Brune", an alluring, dramatic monologue with a refrain sung throughout. In his memoirs, Alan Lord counts the performance as one of the festival highlights, recalling "Writer Colette Tougas singing a capella the sultry Modesty in her smoldering breathy voice, which I just had to put on the festival's documentary LP..." Colette Tougas is a translator, writer of fiction and of essays, recently contributing art criticism to the online magazine, Ciel Variable. She is the author of Le Porphyre de la Rue Dezery (1985).
Annotations
00:00 - 00:01
Silence.
Recording
00:01 - 00:03
Chatter.
Audience
00:04 - 00:11
Bonsoir. Moi, je vais vous parler de Clara La Brune et de la seduction [audience chatter throughout speech].
00:11 - 00:13
Chatter.
Audience
00:13 - 00:27
Performs "Clara La Brune", sings [French] [microphone feedback and audience chatter throughout].
Colette Tougas
00:27 - 00:36
Continues "Clara La Brune", speaks [French] [microphone feedback and audience chatter throughout].
Colette Tougas
00:36 - 00:39
Feedback.
Tech
00:39 - 00:41
Il y a du feedback.
Colette Tougas
00:41 - 00:42
Laughs.
Colette Tougas
00:41 - 00:44
Laughter.
Audience
00:44 - 01:14
Resumes "Clara La Brune" [microphone feedback and audience chatter throughout].
Colette Tougas
01:14 - 01:18
Feedback interrupts performance [subtle audience laughter].
Tech
01:18 - 01:19
Room noise.
Foufounes Electriques
01:19 - 01:22
Resumes "Clara La Brune" [microphone feedback and audience chatter throughout].
Colette Tougas
01:22 - 01:25
Feedback interrupts performance.
Tech
01:25 - 03:37
Resumes "Clara La Brune [microphone feedback continues and audience chatter throughout].
Colette Tougas
03:37 - 03:39
Laughs.
Audience Member
03:37 - 03:40
Merci.
Colette Tougas
03:40 - 03:43
Laughter.
Audience
03:43 - 03:45
Resumes performance.
Colette Tougas
03:45 - 03:46
Laughter and unintelligible exclamation [two voices].
Audience
03:46 - 03:51
Resumes performance [audience chatter throughout].
Colette Tougas
03:51 - 04:09
Continues "Clara La Brune", sings [Italian] [audience chatter throughout].
Colette Tougas
04:09 - 04:25
Continues "Clara La Brune", speaks [French] [audience chatter throughout].
Colette Tougas
04:25 - 04:27
Laughs [overlaps with performance].
Audience Member
04:27 - 04:44
Continues "Clara La Brune", sings [Italian] [audience chatter throughout].
Colette Tougas
04:44 - 05:13
Continues "Clara La Brune", speaks [French] [audience chatter throughout].
Colette Tougas
05:13 - 05:31
Continues "Clara La Brune", sings [Italian] [audience chatter throughout].
Colette Tougas
05:31 - 05:48
Continues "Clara La Brune", speaks [French] [audience chatter throughout].
Colette Tougas
05:48 - 06:07
Continues "Clara La Brune", sings [Italian] [audience chatter throughout].
Colette Tougas
06:07 - 06:11
Room noise.
Foufounes Electriques
06:11 - 08:25
Continues "Clara La Brune", speaks [French] [audience chatter throughout].
Colette Tougas
08:25 - 08:29
Laughter and chatter.
Audience
08:29 - 09:51
Continues "Clara La Brune" [audience chatter throughout].
Colette Tougas
09:51 - 09:58
Laughter and chatter.
Audience
09:58 - 11:09
Continues "Clara La Brune" [audience chatter throughout].
Colette Tougas
11:09 - 11:10
Laughter and chatter.
Audience
11:10 - 11:12
Claps.
Audience Member
11:12 - 11:14
J’ai pas fini, je m’excuse.
Colette Tougas
11:14 - 11:17
Laughs.
Colette Tougas
11:17 - 11:48
Continues "Clara La Brune", speaks [English] [audience chatter throughout].
Colette Tougas
11:48 - 11:58
Continues "Clara La Brune", scats [audience chatter throughout].
Colette Tougas
11:58 - 12:02
Continues "Clara La Brune", sings [English] [audience chatter throughout].
Colette Tougas
12:02 - 12:03
Blows raspberry.
Unknown
12:03 - 12:05
Continues "Clara La Brune" [audience chatter throughout].
Colette Tougas
12:05 - 12:08
Claps and cheers.
Audience Member
12:08 - 12:14
Continues "Clara La Brune" [audience chatter throughout].
Colette Tougas
12:14 - 12:15
Cheers.
Audience Member
12:15 - 13:44
Continues "Clara La Brune [audience chatter throughout].
Colette Tougas
13:44 - 13:45
Chatter.
Audience
13:45 - 13:58
Applause and cheers.
Audience
13:58 - 13:59
Merci [speaks overtop of applause].
Colette Tougas
13:59 - 14:01
Applause.
Audience
14:01 - 14:57
Continues "Clara La Brune", speaks [French] [audience chatter throughout].
Colette Tougas
14:57 - 14:59
Laughter.
Audience
14:59 - 15:36
Continues "Clara La Brune" [audience chatter throughout].
Colette Tougas
15:36 - 15:37
Laughter.
Audience
15:37 - 16:38
Continues "Clara La Brune" [audience chatter throughout].
Colette Tougas
16:38 - 16:39
Laughter.
Audience
16:39 - 17:06
Continues "Clara La Brune" [audience chatter throughout].
Colette Tougas
17:06 - 17:16
Continues "Clara La Brune", sings [French] [audience chatter throughout].
Colette Tougas
17:16 - 17:23
Continues "Clara La Brune", speaks [French] [audience chatter throughout].
Colette Tougas
17:23 - 17:25
Laughs.
Audience Member
17:25 - 17:31
Continues "Clara La Brune" [audience chatter throughout].
Colette Tougas
17:31 - 17:41
Continues "Clara La Brune", sings [French] [audience chatter throughout].
Colette Tougas
17:41 - 18:07
Continues "Clara La Brune", speaks [French] [audience chatter throughout].
Colette Tougas
18:07 - 18:17
Continues "Clara La Brune", sings [French] [audience chatter throughout].
Colette Tougas
18:17 - 18:31
Continues "Clara La Brune", speaks [French] [audience chatter throughout].
Colette Tougas
18:31 - 18:42
Continues "Clara La Brune", sings [French] [audience chatter throughout].
Colette Tougas
18:42 - 18:56
Applause and cheers.
Audience
18:56 - 18:59
Light static.
Recording
18:59 - 18:59
[End of recording].
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