L’Arbre Rouge is a quintet with atypical instrumentation located on the edge of classical music and jazz. The ensemble includes three string instruments (violin, cello, double bass), three wind instruments (the saxophone or the clarinet and the bassoon), as well as the voice which is used there as an additional instrument.For this project, Hugues Mayot works around rituals, whether religious or atheist. It is not a question of playing music resulting from these so-called rituals but rather of working around their architecture, of what characterizes them and to feed on it for the work of composition and by extension improvisation. Constructed as a series of events, of immutable gestures, The concert thus takes the form of a ceremony.