Eduardo Kac, Adelin Schweitzer, France Cadet, Le Bestiaire Numérique
 La Scène Numérique, 27bis rue du 11 Novembre, Aix-en-Provence. entrance free.

Granular Synthesis, Du Zhenjun, Vincent Elka
 Fondation Vasarely, Avenue Marcel Pagnol, Aix-en-Provence. entrance free.

Developed along the lines of « metamorphoses », this exhibition, run in parallel to the Picasso Season, offers a contemporary approach to mutations of the body, landscape and territory. An invitation to intropsective thought-provoking questions and ways of understanding the digital mutant that we may be gradually becoming. Translation by Caroline Newman

Undefined promenades by Mathias Poisson & Manolie Soysouvanh

Sensorial and unbalancing urban promenades.
www.netable.org

3 promenades starting from the reception area of the Festival, Esplanade Maria Callas. Duration : 1hr 10mins.

Augmented Reality by Adelin Schweitzer & redSugar

www.a-reality.org

3 promenades starting from the reception area of the Festival, Esplanade Maria Callas. Duration : 30 mins.

Following the path of the «metamorphosing» artists, you will experience both performance art and visual art, a bridge between dreams and reality. Fitted with unfocused glasses (Undefined promenades) or a portable machine-like structure that alters sight and hearing (Augmented Reality), the environment loses its contours, redefines itself, and our perceptions of reality are completely changed. Translation by Caroline Newman

Smooth music for calm or agitated environments. 2007.

Placed in a nomadic manner, the all-surrounding electronic music establishes an environment of sound. Above all it develops the texture and form of sounds. This artificial landscape can be compared to a mobile whose balancing elements are not solid but made up purely of sound. The sounds used are placed in equilibrium or in movement and respond to each other, thus creating a discrete, kinetic and spatial presence within this environment. Translation by Caroline Newman

Whether you discovered them in a small club or during a festival such as Nuits Sonores, now you know them : The Chap is one of the best groups on stage right now. And if you’ve missed them before, now is the occcasion to discover their diabolic mechanics : excellent musicians who don’t take themselves seriously and who create a powerful and intense sound, fed by pop, electro and punk. (text : Olivier Kerdudo / translation : Caroline Newman).

www.myspace.com/thechap www.thechap.org

With the Listening Tree album, his first for Warp Records, the ex-prince of the Tim Exile gabber shaped a silly electronic Grand Huit drawing out the dark side of the 80’s. Live, this gifted artist surpasses himself, somewhere between the craft of a virtuoso and a song with cavelike leanings. As in the early days of Jamie Lidell, Tim Exile loves transforming his concerts into adventurous and subtle, off-beat shows. (texte : Benoît Hické / translation : Caroline Newman).

www.myspace.com/timexile

Author of one of the best albums in 2008, Metronomy releases singles with a regularity worthy of their name. On stage these three multi-disciplinarian musicians wield synthesisers, guitars, sax.. And a large amount of that very British sense of humour : Between two robotic choreographies, they succeed in stretching their influences from New Order melodies across to off-beat Devo groove. (text : Olivier Kerdudo / translation : Caroline Newman).

www.myspace.com/metronomy www.metronomy.co.uk

Created by Andrew Meecham (Chicken Lips) The Emperor Machine has launched the Cosmic Disco genre. Armed with digital synthesisers, he has put the DC recordings label in the spotlight with deadly kraut funk and fabulous remixes (Daft Punk, Soulwax…) It’s been several years now that Seconde Nature has wanted to programme them, time for the trio to work on their stage show that produces a machine to dance in space. (text : Olivier Kerdudo / translation : Caroline Newman).

www.myspace.com/emperormachine www.dcrecordings.com

www.myspace.com/mathewjonson

She marked the 2008 Seconde Nature event thanks to a stunning and subtle A/V live. Much to our delight, this year she is back on the turntables. For ten years or so now, Chloé composes her sets like scores that are both smooth and fautless, marrying a cutting techno with the energy of rock. Her world resonates in our heads like the ideal soundtrack for a night of black and white. (texte : Benoît Hické / translation : Caroline Newman).

www.myspace.com/chloekillthedj

This performance is based on the extended staging of the film, Odessa. The body of the centaur, standing in a pool of petrol spreading out like a mirror on the ground, rears high, only a few centimetres from the audience. - a strange and wild image of a dismantled centaur. The audience and the centaur can look each other in the eye, feel and touch one another. The intimacy of this relationship reveals the fragility of life. Translation by Caroline Newman

Produced by : Camille&Manolo / Centaur : Manolo&Nuno (Arabian stallion) / Texts : Fabrice Melquiot / Sound : Nicolas Lespagnol-Rizzi / Lighting : Pascale Bongiovanni / With : Manolo and Nuno, a Spanish-Arabian stallion

www.theatreducentaure.com

« The aim of Sho(u)t is to abolish all forms of hierarchy between spectators and artwork. Based on a process that acknowledges emotions, Sho(u)t, has a random structure that accepts its own destructuring. Nothing must remain intact after this encounter. Using Sho(u)t, means accepting abandonment of the group and confronting this domineering and prying attitude : artwork, order, permanency. It seems as normal to me to reintroduce a relationship between the dancer (Sébastien Durand) and his filmed double during these performances, as with a virtual actress and real-life actresses (Alice Chenu and Marie Pezelet) ». Vincent Elka. Translation by Caroline Newman

Elaboration : Francis Maes, Thomas Besson, Vincent Dedun Version 01- Actress : Keziah Serreau / Version 02 - Dancer : Sébastien Durand Performers - Danseur: Sébastien Durand / Actresses: Alice Chenu / Marie Pezelet.
Honorary Prize Interactive Arts - Ars Electronica 2007 / Supported by ARCADI, Scam, DRAC Limousin / With the technological support of Evol System / Sho(u)t is based on Smode/Dipmedia technology.

http://shout.emosmos.com

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

Don’t be misled by their exotic name, Fujiya & Miyagi are in fact Brit’s from Brighton. Yet their influences come from this side of the Channel : from Gainsbourg, for the phrasing and words which hit true and from German krautrock for the hynotic music, repetitive but terribly groovy… Ah ! And it isn’t a duo either, as a rhythmic section now gives the tempo of their dance to Saint Guy (Text : Olivier Kerdudo / translation : Caroline Newman).

www.myspace.com/fujiyaandmiyagi

Watch out, an event ! Moderat is the fantasy of all those lovers of a German techno that bends away, far from the minimal motorway. Modeselektor and Apparat, the spearleaders of the Bpitch Control label, with six hands to inject weight into the beat like a 33’ Burial played as a single. The Pfadfinderei collage artists dress this exceptional live show (first French performance !) with their colourful visual mixes. (Benoît Hické / translation by Caroline Newman).

www.myspace.com/moderat
www.moderat.fm
www.apparat.net
www.modeselektor.de
www.pfadfinderei.com

Danton Eeprom loves surprises. After having won the prize for the best Seconde Nature live event in 2007 and following on with a series of incomparable maxis and remixes, the Marseilles dandy in his London exile will bring out his first – much waited for - album this year, with its influences from rock, his first love. He promises us an astonishing performance full of surprises, accompanied by his loyal acolyte, C.Real, on the visuals. (text : Benoît Hické / translation : Caroline Newman).

www.myspace.com/dantonrocks www.dantoneeprom.com

Do we still need to present he who is both an outstanding mover (from dark rock/electro gems revealed with true passion), obsessed with all underground culture, and the producer with an ever-growing reputation ? After bringing out the first Battant album and before his new project, It’s A Fine Line (brewed up with Tim Paris), Ivan Smagghe now knocks us out with his latest findings. Kill The Dj ? Definitely not. (texte : Benoît Hické / translation : Caroline Newman).

www.myspace.com/ivansmagghedj

Both a vintage rockabilly amateur and a pioneer of Acid House, Andrew Weathreall is an artist with a record library as impeccable as his dandy clothes. From Madchester where he shaped the sound of Happy Mondays and Primal Scream moving through the eclectic groove of Sabres of Paradise, up to the pityless electro of Two Lone Swordsman, his work as a producer arouses as much respect as do his mythical DJ sets. (texte : Olivier Kerdudo / translation : Caroline Newman).

www.rottersgolfclub.co.uk www.myspace.com/twoloneswordsmen

This performance is based on the extended staging of the film, Odessa. The body of the centaur, standing in a pool of petrol spreading out like a mirror on the ground, rears high, only a few centimetres from the audience. - a strange and wild image of a dismantled centaur. The audience and the centaur can look each other in the eye, feel and touch one another. The intimacy of this relationship reveals the fragility of life. Translation by Caroline Newman

Produced by : Camille&Manolo / Centaur : Manolo&Nuno (Arabian stallion) / Texts : Fabrice Melquiot / Sound : Nicolas Lespagnol-Rizzi / Lighting : Pascale Bongiovanni / With : Manolo and Nuno, a Spanish-Arabian stallion

www.theatreducentaure.com

« The aim of Sho(u)t is to abolish all forms of hierarchy between spectators and artwork. Based on a process that acknowledges emotions, Sho(u)t, has a random structure that accepts its own destructuring. Nothing must remain intact after this encounter. Using Sho(u)t, means accepting abandonment of the group and confronting this domineering and prying attitude : artwork, order, permanency. It seems as normal to me to reintroduce a relationship between the dancer (Sébastien Durand) and his filmed double during these performances, as with a virtual actress and real-life actresses (Alice Chenu and Marie Pezelet) ». Vincent Elka. Translation by Caroline Newman

Elaboration : Francis Maes, Thomas Besson, Vincent Dedun Version 01- Actress : Keziah Serreau / Version 02 - Dancer : Sébastien Durand Performers - Danseur: Sébastien Durand / Actresses: Alice Chenu / Marie Pezelet.
Honorary Prize Interactive Arts - Ars Electronica 2007 / Supported by ARCADI, Scam, DRAC Limousin / With the technological support of Evol System / Sho(u)t is based on Smode/Dipmedia technology.

http://shout.emosmos.com

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