VIDEOS

abcd_light


Visuals : Yan Breuleux

The performance abcd_light explores experimental light and electronic sounds in an extreme impact context. The function of the video is to project an image that is at the same time a form of movement and a form of light. The music and what we call spatial sound allows us to create an actual physical impression on the body. The rhythm and the musical forms are the guidelines and parameters of time, from the micro to the macro structure. The sound and image not only occupy the diffused space but also the mind space of the viewer. This phenomenon in turn has a psychological impact on the viewer.

Open movie: 01 [d_light_2009] | 02 [a_light_2009_live] | 03 [b_light_2009_live]

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Pulse


Visuals : Matthew Biederman

Pulse is an audio-video performance based around the framework of an electronic pulsation iterated through time. In contemporary culture, the pulsation has become an essential element, namely in music. The idea of pulsation is closely related to techno culture, where analog and digital audio technologies have recently allowed the advent of a stable pulsation, without the variations that a human player might introduce. “Pulse” thus takes the language of techno culture by stressing the specific live experience where the experiment takes priority over emotion, where physical stimuli are paramount. The objective sought in “Pulse” is not be to present a composed work, with a pre-established scenario, but to produce a series of psychological states through which the witness will be able to build his own narrative.

World premiere : Paris, September 9th 2006, Théâtre du Châtelet (Québec Numériq Night)

Other performances : Mois-Multi : Quebec, Canada, February 2007
FILE Festival, Hipersonica : Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, March 2007
Donau Festival : Krems, Austria, April 2007
Elektra Festival, Montreal, Canada, May 2007

Open movie: 01 [excerpts from Châtelet, Paris]

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Black_Box


Visuals: Yan Breuleux
Programming: Luc Lavergne

A new media experience: surround sound and visuals

The performance takes place inside a cubic hall on four very large screens. A high quality quadraphonic sound system delivers the Black_Box score. Completely surrounded, the audience experiences audio and visual micro-variations that progressively fade the frontier between the human and the machine.

Open Movie: 01


FausTechnology


Visuals: Yan Breuleux

Faustechnology is a 40 minute multi-screen music-computer animation work based on a contemporary interpretation of the Faust myth. It evokes human behavior in the face of a machine that generates visual and sound stimuli, a machine that seduces, and produces pleasure. The work is divided into two parts during which a series of visual and aural micro-variations gradually evolve. Faust appears as both entropy and seduction: the threat of increasing disorder in the material world, and seduction as a promise of control through simulation techniques. The sources of the sound and visuals are entirely synthetic.

Open Movie : 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06


Poison Arrow & Gridspace


DJ/VJ set @ SAT

Open movie: 01


Volt+


Visuals : Matthew Biederman

Music for chamber ensemble, electronics and video.
Commissionned by Radio-France, Festival Présences, Paris (2009)
SMCQ ensemble conducted by Walter Boudreau
Music based on Volt (1987), a commission by Array Music in Toronto

Open movie: 01