Artificiel (CA)

[WORLD PREMIERE]

POWEr: Audio-visual Performance – 45 min

POWEr is a performance based on acoustic phenomena and the striking imagery that offshoot from high-voltage emissions.  Used as source materials, these ingredients are generated, captured, transformed and diffused live on stage, through digital processing and manipulation of sound and video.  No content is prepared in advance, and electricity is used as a subtle but pressing instrument.  These constraints define the expressive territory essential to the performance.

Building on a context that’s sets it halfway between a musical presentation and a media arts installation, POWEr demarks the continuation of Artificiel’s development.  Having charted a singular path in their work with sonic properties and electrical impulse through previous projects such as bulbes (2003) and beyond6281 (2004), as well as cultivating a performative dimension with such later works as cubing (2006) and artificiel.process() (2008), POWEr takes its place among this oeuvre by raising the stakes of spontaneity and working with evermore complex musical structures.

Artificiel is a digital arts duo based in Montreal, featuring Alexandre Burton and Julien Roy.  Together, they manipulate concepts and articulate the results via new media, music, and video, the results often appearing in the form of performances and installations.

This project is made possible thanks to funding from Media Arts section of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts et Lettres du Quebec. artificiel also thanks Steve Ward for his contribution to the development of the audio-modulated DRSSTC.