Audiovisual experience

Experience is a programme dedicated to today’s digital creation as much as to early electronic experimentation and other inventive machinery. It’s a space for discovering experimental forms and a showcase for the avant-garde. For this event at the Antipode, two audiovisual performances will intimately explore the relationship between image and sound.

Vidéochose, Jacques

Electronic and experimental music | Visual arts and multimedia | Unusual scenic devices

Jacques is a unique French artist. He is known for his ability to reinvent himself and his neatly disordered sound experiments.

With Vidéochose, he orchestrates an unusual stage set-up in which sound and image interact live to make the audience dance. Jacques manipulates objects and instruments in real time to extract sound and visual material, which he mixes with video extracts from films, documentaries, YouTube and his own images. Always keen to push back his limits, Jacques is bold and free, offering a fresh experience with each performance.

Panorama, Gamut

Electronic and modular music | Graphic and kinetic arts | Interactive devices

Panorama is the new artwork by the GAMUT collective. Following their first collaboration on Terry Riley‘s seminal work In C, they continue to combine modular synthesizers and visual creation.

This new electronic and graphic performance is inspired by gamelan (an Indonesian ensemble of percussion instruments) and American repetitive music from the 60s and 70s (by composers such as Steve Reich, John Cage and Terry Riley). The graphic universe is made up of monochrome atmospheres evoking geological elements, urban spaces and colourful worlds similar to a living ecosystem. The images are created using video projections, object manipulation, paper cut-outs and chalk drawings.

The two media influence each other live: sounds and images enrich and harmonise with each other. The interaction tools developed by GAMUT make it possible to recover data from the movements of the visual artists and the sounds produced by the synthesizers, to make the objects move, draw musical patterns and play with the lights. They take us on a journey into imaginary territory.

The audiovisual experience is not suitable for people who are photosensitive or prone to epileptic seizures.

DISTRIBUTION :
Sophie SOIA: Illustration / Set design
Stéphanie DELPOUVE: Set design / Video / Lighting
Jérôme VASSEREAU: Music / Modular Synthesizer
Julien SENELAS: Music / Modular Synthesizer

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Produced by Antipode, in partnership with Electroni[k] as part of Maintenant Festival.