pudeurs
narrative live experience
Pudeurs is a narrative live experience aiming to interrogate how we remember, to unveil the hidden intimacy within our memories.
Both sound and video are played live with perfect synchronization, building a dynamic and cinematic dialog between music and images.
Pudeurs is thus a live artistic performance, a visual dance of my own compositions.
Through these optical metaphors about travels and memories, the audience is invited to share the artist’s private eye about the lived and the remembered.
This Is Silly But It Sticks To The Skin
Yohan Durand is a self-taught juggler and dancer specialized in the practice of diabolo. He has been exploring the possibilities offered by this object for more than ten years by coloring them with various techniques such as dance, theater, clown or even mime.
In his show This Is Silly But It Sticks To The Skin, he explores with sensitivity and humor the art of diabolo, and invites us to ride with him on the train of life.
My mission in this project was to create original sound effects promoting immersion in the story of the artist.
Photo : Peter Maerkl
2018-2024
L’Oignon
Dance / Juggle / Video Mapping / Acousmonium
L’Oignon is an experimental, immersive and psychological show put on by Yohan Durand (dance, juggle), Pia Vidal (video mapping) and Léopold Cordier (sound, music).
First tests
“We seek to reconnect with the right emotion to convey a pure and precise sensory message.”
Sound Mockup 1 (Stereo)
Sound Mockup 2 (Binaural)
Elise Rivet
Immersive Theatre Play
Mother Elise Rivet was a Catholic and resistant nun from the region of Lyon who bravely concealed children and weapons in her convent. Arrested by Klaus Barbie in March 1944, she is locked up at the prison of Montluc then sent to the concentration camp for women of Ravensbrück. There, she dedicates the rest of her life and energy to giving hope to her peers.
Video animations
For each of the scenes in the room, a sound ambiance has been created by paying attention to the slightest detail likely to make the sounds authentically faithful to real situations. For example, what birds do we hear for which season, what was the sound of Klaus Barbie’s Amilcar B38 car, or even what the soundscape of a city looked like during the occupation?
Creation
My role in this play, still under creation, is to:
- Reproduce, for each scene, sound atmospheres faithful to the places and the time
- Compose original music with small contemporary instrument formations with characters, mainly chamber orchestra
- Create video animations of typed texts, and add sound to them
Sound Clips
Hill of Fourvière in December 1940
(the same atmosphere has also been reproduced for the months of October and November, with the details that this implies – e.g. dead leaves in November)
Perrache Station in 1944
Klaus Barbie‘s Office
Musical Clips
Arrestation
Train Departure
Elise tells a Story
Planetarium
Every year since 2018, the cultural association AADN offers audiovisual artists to meet and create ephemeral projects at the Planetarium of Vaulx-en-Velin, hosted by its director Simon Meyer. This internship allows artists to benefit from the extraordinary technology of the dome, namely the 7.1 sound multicast and 360 projection, and thus create immersive pieces, presented to the public at its end. It is thanks to this initiative that in January 2019, I had the opportunity to take a first step towards a dream long out of reach: composition for the image.
Collapse
Creation under Dome
Collapse is a piece created in collaboration with Pierre Amoudruz, artistic director of the AADN and video artist, during the workshop of January 2019.
Foreword: The sound of the video has been remixed with binaural technology in order to make it more faithful to the planetarium’s immersion, listening through headphones is therefore recommended.
This piece was born around the shared interest between Pierre and myself for collapsology, the theory of collapse. The concept was then to start from a vacuum to slowly but exponentially rise towards an overflow, a saturation of sound and visual spaces, leading to a collapse, fall followed by an open note towards the hope of better harmony.
The creation internship at the Planetarium taking place over only a handful of days, I had to resolve, like most of the participants, to recycle some of my personal compositions in order to invest more my work time on the structure and reflection regarding the spatialization of sound sources in the dome, rather than creating new content. The beginning of the performance is played live on the modular synthesizer, while the continuation (from 2:28) is an arrangement written on Ableton Live. Pierre Amoudruz, meanwhile, uses a MIDI controller connected to Resolume to interact with the sound.
Video recording : Léon Denise
Photo : Thierry Chassepoux
For the January 2020 workshop, the AADN has decided to invite, in addition to audiovisual artists, artist-authors. This non-negligible addition has allowed the development of a literary dimension, even a screenplay within the creations.
My team consisted of Marion Vidal (illustration, motion design, VJing), Théo Brice (scenography, animation, artistic direction), Chantal Capelli (dressing, graphics, VR), Emeline Rosendo (theater, project management, exhibitions) et Ghazi Frini (VJing, animation, performances).
Together, we imagined a scenario ranging from metaphorical to figurative, starting from the idea that the dome would represent a uterus, the cocoon of a birth. The challenge of this year, for me at music as for my colleagues in animation, was to play the piece live during the restitution on January 10.
In order to avoid a possible technical crash, I unfortunately preferred not to record the sound of this performance.
Photos : AADN, Bertrand De Becque, Planetarium of Vaulx-en-Velin