A painter, a musician, a visual and audible osmosis.
"The brush stroke has a sound.
The sound has a shape.
The shape has a image."
Performance :
This is a performance of live pictorial and sound creation in complete artistic osmosis. A global work is forged by the interaction of two mediums physically interconnected by sensors and receivers.
Approach:
The observation of the interaction of the "High-tech" and "Low-tech". The"High-tech" here is obviously represented by the electro-acoustics and the "Low-tech", are the brushes and canvas.
We are moving inexorably in a "High-tech" world to a large extent, for many good reasons. Along with this, there is a movement, a consciousness, a reaction, a desire to return to a more "Low-tech" approach to our environment and our lives. Are the "High-tech" and "Low-tech" two ways to understand our way of life? Should we choose sides? Do we really have to compartmentalize our modes, classify and label what we are by using a particular form of work ?
This performance tries to show that not only these two worlds can co-exist, but they can melt into a movement that enriches each other by opening up the physical and creative relationship .
Under approach:It is a kind of artistic mixture based on the interactivity of two completely different art forms at first, but which are substantially very similar in their creative process. Music, like painting, is about working in layers by establishing a space, whether it is bilateral or multi-dimensional, of distinct elements that forms a whole in a constant search for balance.
Usually, a painter tries to start, model and finalize an image. But in this case, it may radically change during the process. It is the same for the musician who usually tries to structure and compose a piece according to identifiable principles.
But here, in the context of this performance, there is an element of the unknown in what will happen during the process. Both experienced artists have to expect the unexpected. As much from the point of view of the artist as the musician. This is a deregulation of the individual artistic modus operandi that requires each artist to explore and discover their art applied to a whole other creative form.This goes beyond the simple performance of improvisation where it is usually based on its tools, its experience and first references to nevertheless control the situation. Here, the two artists will have to let go and release their creative reflexes. The share of risk is greater.
Technique:Microphones and sensors are placed behind the canvas. The artist creates a work. In doing so, the microphones capture the passage of the brush on the canvas and the vibrations depending on the intensity of the creative impulse. The first sounds generated are taken by the musician then modulated and organized to transform the sequences and form a soundtrack which will serve to create a piece of music. In reciprocity, musical composition will directly influence the pictorial composition. A creative Larsen effect (feedback) is then created. We do not know who influences who. Both works are built over each other to form a unique performance.
It attempts to create a perfect harmony between the arts and the artists. One is not only a musician, since it influences directly the painter's gesture. The other is not only a painter, since it generates sounds and sequences.
