Digital Musics & Sound Art

La chambre des machines

Price: Anerkennung - Honorary Mentions



Artists:
Nicolas Bernier (CA), Martin Messier (CA)

URL:
http://www.lachambredesmachines.com/

Cyberarts 2011 - International Compendium Prix Ars Electronica 2011

Machines made of gears and cranks are manipulated to produce a sound construction at the crossroads of acoustics and electronics. Submerged in surround sound, the audience discovers the interaction between mechanical and synthetic sound. With specifically tailored programming, digital processing is enlarging the sound palette of the machines. La chambre des machines stems from a desire to return to the physical world from an environment of digital creation. The project also refers back to the intonarumoris, sound machines built by Italian futurists at the beginning of the 20th century. These machines contained mysterious mechanisms, just as computers do today.

Credits:
Intonarumoris (Machines) : Alexandre Landry. Video : foumalade.org. Production : Perte de signal.