After the the BIAM _ The Montreal Biennale Internationale d’art numérique , It was the festival Scopitone at Nantes who invited and installed Eotone in a former shipyard overhaul.
Earthquake in Roma
On the september 12th, I played at 90db festival in a such appropriate location for Seismik. A old paper factory in a middle of a municipal parc _ PARCO APPIA ANTICA_. It was kind of a danger for the audience. All the roof was made old dirty windows made with glass. And after connecting my software to Japan, all the building started to shake with this glass vibrations. At the end the performance the audience was so expressive and excited, the applause didn’t stop for 10 minutes… that it was impossible to go out of the stage. So, I decided to perform “Dust” to give a feedback gift to this warm audience even it was not planned in the program. You will find pictures of the geophone I installed on the stage to analyse the vibration/frequency of the factory related to my realtime internet connection Japan seismographs. The pictures of the destroyed piano was the one for Kathy Hynde beautiful piece “Bird Step Sequencer” __” http://kathyhinde.co.uk/bird-step-sequencer/ “
Seismik > Seoul
It was so nice to meet Mimi and Elliot / from Kimchi and Chips. They are now creative directors of Da Vinci festival by Seoul Foundation of Art and Culture. They invite me to perform Seismik in the festival opening night. The venue is truly inspiring. Lot’s of creativy there.
SEISMIK > MONTREAL / MUTEK2014
I presented 2 Seismik performances on the same nights. After the beta version presented in spain, I worked to update, with lucas, our OpenFrameWork Seismik Dataconnect . We add presets and target points to help me in live situations. During my EM15 performance, I had some trouble, with the OSC connections between the 2 laptops, minor problems … ! But, for me, the worst was the sound system, lot of crack noise because my low frequencies was too heavy for the sound system. I will nedd to add a frequency protection to my audio patch. Anyway, there is some pictures from caroline Hayeur, my official Mutek photograph, hi !!!
EOTONE / MONTREAL
After 2 years working with David letellier, we finally present our project Eotone at Elektra-Mutek EM15_ Biennale internationale art numérique Musée Art Contemporain de Montréal.
WITH EOTONE, KOLGEN AND LETELLIER REFLECT ON DISTANCE AND WEATHER, BY STAGING SOMETHING INTANGIBLE YET POWERFUL: THE WIND. FOUR SOUND AND SCULPTURAL DIFFUSERS, CONTAINING ELEMENTS OF BOTH THE WEATHER VANE AND THE FOG HORN, MAKE UP THIS MONUMENTAL INSTALLATION THAT RENDERS IN MOVEMENT AND SOUND THE DIRECTION AND FORCE OF THE WIND BLOWING SIMULTANEOUSLY ON TWO CONTINENTS: IN MONTREAL AND QUEBEC CITY ON ONE SIDE OF THE ATLANTIC, IN RENNES AND NANTES ON THE OTHER. THE WIND DATA RECORDED IN EACH CITY IS TRANSMITTED LIVE TO THE DIFFUSERS, CONTROLLING THE ORIENTATION OF EACH OF THE STRUCTURES AND ORCHESTRATING THE COMBINED CHORDS THAT MAKE UP THE HARMONIC WHOLE PERCEIVED AT THE HEART OF THE INSTALLATION. BY TRANSFORMING WEATHER DATA INTO SOUND, EOTONE OFFERS A SUBTLE ARTISTIC VISION OF THE INTERNET OF OBJECTS.
LONDON //// MAY 18
Carmen and Estella from Alpha_Ville invite me at the great KING PLACES THEATER to perform DUST and INJECT. After the performances, I have a pleasure to have a talk with the audience. London is so a beautiful city. This time, I don’t know why, but I felt in love with this city, probably because, beside my own excursions, Carmen make me discover some districts I never went before. You will find beautiful pictures I take from an photography exhibition. What I like is the window reflections on the close-up faces. I don’t remember the name of this photographer, but if I find it, I will update the blog. There is some pictures that Justina Suminaite made of me for the magazine Rooms.
Different Trains @Laboral/Spain
Beside Train Fragments who is played with a percussion group and the music score was created by me, I still present Different Trains who the music score is from Steve Reich. Different Trains is played with a string Quartet.
Con Different Trains, Herman Kolgen nos presenta una versión AV inspirada en una pieza sonora de Steve Reich. Different Trains fue compuesta en 1988 para un cuarteto de cuerda con cassettes magnéticas. En L.E.V. 2014, un cuarteto de cuerda interpretará junto a Herman Kolgen una perfecta simbiosis de sonido e imagen.
SEISMIK beta version
 After working intensively for 3 months on Seismik, I presented a premiere version [ SEISMIK_BETA ] at the L.E.V. festival / Laboral.
LABORATORIO DE ELECTRONICA VISUAL is the International Festival of Audiovisual Creation of Gijón. The festival celebrated the eight edition on May 2nd and 3rd with outstanding international artists You can wath an extract on vimeo _ vimeo.com/102158828 _
The audience was so excited and demonstrative. After this 3 months working 7 days a week, It was incredible for me and fill me lot of energy that I needed to continu to work on this piece.
TRAIN FRAGMENTS > BELGIUM
I was please to present Train Fragments with KAREN WILLEMS and BL!NDMAN. They are very talented. We received a warm reception by the Brugges audience. April 17th at the Concertgebouw Brugge / More Music Festival.
Eotone – Wind Territory
For the last 2 years, I worked with David Letellier on a large scale project. Eotone. We reflect on distance and weather, by staging something intangible yet powerful: the wind. Four sound and sculptural diffusers, containing elements of both the weather vane and the fog horn, make up this monumental installation that renders in movement and sound the direction and force of the wind blowing simultaneously on two continents. The wind data recorded in each city is transmitted live to the diffusers, controlling the orientation of each of the structures and orchestrating the combined chords that make up the harmonic whole perceived at the heart of the installation. By transforming weather data into sound, EOTONE offers a subtle artistic vision of the Internet of objects.
In the time that we work on all web/audio/geocontrol applications, IUT from Nantes build these diffusers.
