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Today was the last day of our Meduse residency. Snif ! Everything is set-up for our return next month for the festival Mois-Multi. Flesh+Wood+Metal Opening will be next february 15th. and the installation will be present until the end of the february. Magali and me want to thank’s warmly all the people who help us to make this happen. First, our parain that said, in 2010, spontaneously YES ::: Emile Morin. Also ::: Gaëtant Gosselin, Viviane Paradis, Jean-François Dion, Matéo Thébaudeau, Pierre-Olivier Fréchet-Martin, Anthony Ferey, Annie, Marie-Christine and all the mois Multi team.

After tranfering the capture data to Flesh, Wood and Metal. We start to work to construct our next performance. The idea of Flesh+Wood+Metal is _ beside the installations _ all these 3 devices can become very organic musical instruments. And for the opening of our installation at the festival Mois Multi (next february 15th), we will perform on these 3 very sensitive instruments.

After 4 days of set-up and tuning all the instruments. We went on the road to capture data from the proximal territory. January is a very cold month in Quebec, snow + ice and wind. With Mateo we went near the St-Laurent river to record the waves turbulences. This data will be the input that make reakt our WOOD device. For the METAL device, it will be the topology of the city that will control the magic harm in contact with the metal plate. And finally, for FLESH, We took fields recording between industrial and schools area. FLESH is a king of sensitive tympan that will diffuse these recordings in a very strong physical ondulations.

Finally, after 2 years waiting, We are here. At Meduse, Quebec city. For our residency. Magali and me with our 3 installation devices that we already designed and builted in Montreal last autumn. Now we are here to test in Situe in real situation with the territory data from the Topography, the River and the intimate sound of the Quebec city. We spend 3 days for the assemblage and bug fix before really start working with them.

Magali Babin et moi avons amorcés en 2010, une série d’improvisations sur une batterie décomposée en ses composantes brutes. Inspirés par le résultat, la peau, le bois et le métal sont devenus les matériaux qui ont initiés la création de notre nouvelle installation sonore. Nous serons en résidence à Québec chez Méduse en janvier prochain. Et, au final, nous présenterons cette installation au Mois-Multi, toujours à Méduse du 16 au 29 février. En guise de lancement, nous performerons avec ces dispositifs sonores le 16 février.

Le tamtam étant historiquement un moyen de communication pour les peuplades anciennes, il était tout à fait approprié que cette installation s’imprègne fortement de la notion de communication et de territoire. Les trois dispositifs FLESH, WOOD et METAL s’activeront selon les mouvances de la topologie, des turbulences marines et du bruit ambiant de la ville de Québec.

Voici quelques photos des préparatifs à Montréal avec Magali, Simon et moi … David étant caché derrière un la colonne.