Oh! Tiger Mountain, is a voice placed upon simple compositions over which the sort of spectres of major figures from the past and of today’s loners float. Intimate monologues of naive honesty, always counterbalanced with the energy of their interpretations : man is happy to say with a smile, that he dreams of Oh ! Tiger Mountain as the encounter between Jukebox Babe by Alan Vega and This Years’ Model by Elvis Costello... (translation : Caroline Newman).

www.myspace.com/ohtigermountain

Revealed through the electro pop of his previous duo, Closer Music (on Kompakt), Matias Aguayo has since turned his back to minimal sound and is now moving in to a more spontaneous music spiced with south-American percussion. Entirely composed with voices, the latest album by the German-Chilian owes as much to the fun experiments of Herbert as to numeric Cumbia rhythms. His live interpretation with his friends on the Comeme label announce a new and rich experience. (Olivier Kerdudo / translation : Caroline Newman).

www.myspace.com/musicacomeme

Pantha du Prince is one of this small groups of people (together with his friend Lawrence) seeking to extract a wildly organic material from software. With his third album, «Black Noise », Hendrik Weber exploses all the current codes and clichés of minimal techno. Quite undefinable at first, full of muted sounds and infrabasses carried along by soft pulsations, «Black Noise» intelligently sets up its own biotope, through the use of nuances (we adore the pedal-steel and small bells) and must be discovered live, accompanied by our preferred anti-vj and visomat inc. projections. (Benoît Hické / translation : Caroline Newman).

www.myspace.com/panthaduprince
www.visomat.com

Consciously mysterious, hidden behind a red mask, the Berlin Redshape reveals himself in the title of his records. The last is called « The Dance Paradox » and shows us his objective : to create irrestistably yet demanding techno, plunging into the depths of telluric dub then rising towards immensely wide and atmospharic horizons. As with Martyn (which he has just remixed) he is the avant-garde of a new electro sound that will mark this decade. (Olivier Kerdudo / translation : Caroline Newman).

www.myspace.com/redshape

Cosmic grooves, hypnotic dub, psycho-pop discords or experiments into pointilism, Patrice’s music develops a very particular form throughout as it echoes the places where he is : from clubs to festivals and art galleries, he plays on moving through the boundaries, always pushing the limits of the dance floor and the musical horizons of the auditorium ever further beyond. His experiments cross the works of artists from many different worlds - video art, choreography and visual art, as recently with Nathalie Arini, the painter from Marseille – which enables him to continually renew both the pleasure and various perspectives of listening.

www.myspace.com/occult69

Sonolevitation exploits the acoustic levitation phenomenum that enables objects to “float” in space by subjecting them to sound waves. Placed in the field of sound waves, the fragments of gold manipulated by the artists seem to escape gravity, tumbling over and bumping into each other at various heights. The waves, controlled in real time by Dmitry Gelfand, progressively invade the sound space.

http://portablepalace.com

The artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot creates settings that accompany the psychological rhythms of our lives and that prolong the fantasies evoked by Erik Satie’s “background music”. For his installation “From hear to ear” in 2008, he transformed the space of the Xippas gallery into an aviary where the visitors could mingle with flocks of birds. When landing on the guitars the birds produced a piece of music similar to the disturbing sounds of rock. On the artist’s request, Ariane Michel, filmed this moment of grace and suspension.

Photography :
Céleste Boursier-Mougenot,
View of installation:  From here to ear, galerie Xippas, Paris, 2008
Photographer: Frédéric Lanternier
© Céleste Boursier-Mougenot
Courtesy galerie Xippas

A guitar, a camera, light. The work of the artist Romain Kronenberg is a combination which seems to extract itself from the world. His eruption on the French art scene dates back to 2005 with a series of video performances filmed at the Cartier Foundation and then filmed at the Palais de Tokyo. After this comes a series of videos all revealing a particular sense of distancing which places working drawing at the centre of his aesthetics. Romain Kronenberg’s work reveals a certain nostalgic feeling both of the moment seized and of the ‘elsewhere’. He tests the depths of instants of absence in an attempt to better understand their meaning. This programme has been put together specially for the Seconde Nature festival. (Benoît Hické / translation by Caroline Newman).

http://romainkronenberg.blogspot.com

The selection :
 « La naissance du monde » (2010 / 13’48)
 « Festina lente » (2007-2009 / 8’37)
 « Eté » (2007 / 14’41)
 « Fernweh » (2008 / 9’44)
 « Zenith » (2009 / 11’20)
 « Vacance » (2009 / 14’18)
 « Let me in » (2009 / 8’29)

This DVD continues the work begun on the double album « Animals » produced by Minilogue in 2008. We know how capable the Swedish duo is to develop metronomic and experimental tracks. Never afraid of taking risks, he asked the Hinge Design studio and a few of his art friends to dress up his « high tempo » miniatures. The result : fifteen visual capsules which plunge the viewer into a digital wilderness similar to a sort of flashy and hallucinating trip. Your eyes ‘ll go wild. (Benoît Hické / Translation by Caroline Newman).

www.cocoon.net

This film is the result of work by the American painter, Rostarr, with the sound recordings that Soundwalk made in New York between 1998 and 2008. Rostarr took hold of the sound material and, in front of the camera, inscribed with paint, in movement and colour, the fragmented words of poets and prophets, visionaries and lost children. A story, a homage to the city appears as these miniature stories unfold. (Benoît Hické / translation by Caroline Newman).

www.dalbin.com
www.soundwalk.com
www.rostarr.com
www.collectorserie.com

Photography : « Kill The Ego » by Soundwalk à Rostarr © 2008 Rostarr / Photo Atsushi Nishijima / Dalbin

Framework, a luminous and kinetic sculpture, is made up of five 2x2m modules divided up into 5x5 squared elements that make up the final 5x5x5 matrix. The 375 ‘frames’, some of which are static, others kinetic, are all fitted with LEDs to illuminate their areas. They constitute programmed elements that suggest different, kinetic and luminous, operating modes. The base of the installation contains 50 infra-red sensors that enable the sculpture to react to the presence and position of the viewers. The installation is a surface of communication that transcribes environmental data into a game of light, movement and reflections. (translation : Caroline Newman).

www.lab-au.com

Framework notations are a series of computer-generated, printed illustrations. The frame of a luminous, kinetic sculpture, bearing the title of ’f5x5x5’ is revealed. Each position corresponds to a step, a route within the series of calculations that make up the programme, an algorithm. Each print has been produced by a specially developed programme, it reveals the process inherent to it in the form of a visual representation.

www.lab-au.com

Based on a hive-shaped form of computerized simulation and the study of the social behaviour of a group, PixFlow and Swarmdot are generative works that reveal such rules and an abstract, endless game of lines and dots that cross the screens. Transparent T-shaped columns, showing the right and wrong sides, their results and their methods of fabrication (electronic cards and cables are visible), they constitute a symbol of modern times, proclaiming the value of digital art where poetry really does exist.

www.lab-au.com

The chrono.prints are a series of 24 computer-generated images, based on the 24 hours of a day, attributing the units of time to the primary colours of light. The hours become red, the minutes are green and the seconds are blue, thus creating chromatic textures. The chrono.prints are part of the “chrono” series which also includes “Chrono.tower”, a luminous artwork based on the Dexia tower in Brussels and created using the same concept.

www.lab-au.com

”All sound is an amalgam of seeds, elementary particles of sound, sonar quanta.” Iannis Xenakis in ‘Formalized music: thought and mathematics in composition’ (1971).   The ‘particle synthesis’ project links a motor that renders visual particles visible to the the synthesis of a granular type of sound, research motivated by the possibility of converging visual, sound and spatial parameters in real time within an electronic space, particles that would otherwise be neither visible nor audible. ’Particle synthesis’ suggests a link between generative art and sound in real time through the spatial control of sound transmission, light and imagery while exploring the aesthetics of the digital world. (translation : Caroline Newman).

www.lab-au.com

The sound installations and sculptures created by Zimoun articulate mechanisms in sensitive and poetic movements whose structural simplicity creates a complex series of relationships and permanent interactivity running from the organic to the artificial. The work presented here, part of his research into art, analyses complex behavior patterns through sound and movement, using multiplicity whose elements question creation and the degeneration of motifs.

www.zimoun.ch

Visual artist and musician, Carsten Nicolai is one of the most active participants on the German minimal, electronic scene today. With Rota, he shows us a piece of work hovering on the border between art and science. Playing with our perception, this luminous, sound sculpture is able to influence our cerebral activity by stimulating certain functions of the brain placing us in different states of relaxation, awareness and even meditation. (translation by Caroline Newman).
Courtesy Galerie EIGEN + ART Leipzig/Berlin und PaceWildenstein

www.carstennicolai.de

Ryoji Ikeda continues to explore and work the digital universe of her datamatics. An attempt to cement together the flux and data that surround us, this audiovisual installation data scan is made up of the analysis of recent data of the universe and the human body. A parallel between 0 and 1 and the time scales which draw us into a world where mathematical codes encounter human perception. (translation by Caroline Newman).

Commissioned by Surrey Art Gallery, produced by Forma.

Produced by Forma / Commissioned by Surrey Art Gallery, Canada
www.forma.org.uk
www.ryojiikeda.com

The work of Marius Watz is based on the algorithmic generation of forms. It is marked by multi-coloured, organic 2D and 3D elements. The series of generative works presented here function according to vectorial lines stimulated by the movement of a laser that retraces the organic forms. Marius Waltz’s research explores the generative systems of forms animated in real time. His work has been exhibited regularly since 1996 in Rotterdam, at the Istanbul Biennial and at the Barcelona Sonar. In 2005 the artist was the initiator of the Generation.x project : a platform devoted to generative art and design. (translation : Caroline Newman).

http://mariuswatz.com

Vera Molnar was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1924 and has been living in France since 1947.  Her art work has made a major contribution to the birth of kinetic and generative art. And since 1968 she has become one of those pioneers using the computer in art work. « Geometric art can effectively produce a variety of mystical creations, which art history knows much about, but it can also move in completely the opposite direction to that of true science. The pictorial medium chosen can be easily manipulated, it can be encouraged to produce highly controlled experiments and thus transform the enlightened artist into a researcher into art. Not being particularly interested in the mystical side, yet curious by nature, I decided to challenge this medium and deliberately chose the second option. » Vera Molnar. (translation : Caroline Newman).

www.veramolnar.com

Chronos 10 is a chrono-dynamic artwork that has developed from research into space, light and time. The mirrors grafted onto the structure, mutate at different speeds of rotation according to a random programme, projecting coloured light that introduced dynamics into the surrounding environment. Rethinking and introducing a new form of dynamics into the space in which we live, was one of the major preoccupations of the artist who wanted “To put the town in art and not a bit of art into the town”, to build an environmental future of quality. (translation by Caroline Newman).

www.olats.org/schoffer