We’re so pleased to announce French newspaper Le Monde’s coverage of LE SON DU NOUS today in their Music section. In describing Philippe Starck’s ambitions for the performance, Odile de Plas notes that he hopes to move his audience to the point of tears with his exploration of the sounds of humanity. She describes the performance as being largely improvised, and quotes Starck in saying: “[To hold on to four hours, is easy, I do lectures all the time. What is more impressive, is not to know where one goes with it. I like this idea of surprise in an era as policed as ours and in a life as organized as mine. Sound is a difficult fluid to apprehend, because it is invisible, like the air. But it produces real physical effects, if the decibels are violent enough. I want to evoke all that and try to create a fertile chaos so that together we are able to release the sound of us. To be one in all, and all in one."

Le Monde goes on to quote Stephan Crasneanscki about Soundwalk's archive of sound that he has tapped into to create the audio for the performance: "[There was sound before us: nature, the cosmos. Sounds of us: buildings, noises of life, but also of death, like the silence after 9/11 that I captured. And the sound of after, which we will leave during the performance.]”

The article then refers to Soundwalk’s previous collaborations with Philippe Starck: the first occurring in 2004 for Paris’ la Nuit Blanche event. The second, 24 Hours: the Starck Mix, which Le Monde describes as “[a universe of sound, which one could access by downloading an iphone application, that diffuses the sound of the moment.]” Le Monde conveys the designer’s passion for music: “[Starck always listens to music... it helps him to concentrate on his work... and creates a comfortable space.]”

The article concludes by noting three sounds that Starck says have [shaken] him to the core, “the gutteral trumpeting of an Indian flute, the infrasound of Laurie Anderson’s electric violin, and the cry of an extrordinarily ugly girl in a café in Williamsburg, New York.” Le Monde finishes by quoting Starck as saying, “[...she put all her ugliness into the crystalline beauty of that sound. I was dumbstruck. I threw up my arms. It was my sound.]”

Thank you for the coverage, Le Monde!

Click here to read the full article (in French).

Click here to buy tickets online for tonight’s (Friday, March 19th) and Saturday’s (March 20th) performances, or call MAC Créteil’s box office at 01 45 13 19 19. Tickets are selling quickly!

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Télérama has recommended LE SON DU NOUS in its “Sortir” section this week (March 17, 2010), quoting Stephan Crasneanscki: “[The principal actor in this new performance is sound, not the narrator or the musicians. We are creating a sonic opera, unique and generous like Philippe, who unceasingly shares his ethical and subversive vision of a more just world."  They go on to describe the performance thus: "[The score is made from sounds, not notes, drawn from the incredible soundbank that Crasneanscki has compiled over the past decade. The public, always involved and interacting, will be able to leave their own mark on the show[:] during this extraordinary experience, the public will in effect be asked to produce their own primal sound….]”

Thanks for the coverage, Télérama!

For more information on attending the show, head to the Facebook event page here.

To book tickets: call the box office at 01 45 13 19 19, or buy them online here.

We look forward to seeing you all there!

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8 LISTEN TO ERIC DALBIN’S INTERVIEW WITH RADIO ALIGRE on dalbin.com (in French only)

Eric Dalbin was invited by Véronique Godé, aka Orevo, for an interview on the radio show “Vive le cinéma” on Aligre FM to discuss Label Dalbin’s current projects, among them his work with Soundwalk and Philippe Starck for LE SON DU NOUS.

Dalbin initiated, directed and produced LE SON DU NOUS. An independent contemporary creation label founded in 2003 in Paris, Dalbin produces and publishes works of art, events and audiovisual content. They co-produced “Kill the Ego” from Soundwalk to Rostarr, which will be featured in the art collection iPhone app and website Collector Serie on March 21.

In this interview, Eric Dalbin speaks of  the idea of contemporary creation at the heart of his label, which seeks to support and be involved in artworks that cross the boundary between sound and image.

He talks about the artwork and artists that Label Dalbin has been working with in this vein: how he introduced Rostarr to Soundwalk’s Stephan Crasneanscki and Dug Winningham to make “Kill the Ego”, on the appearances of Xavier Veilhan and Sebastien Tellier on the film “Furtivo”…

Eric says of Collector Serie that its theory lies in an aspiration to build a collection of video artworks where sound and image can melt together and form a new media or ‘matière’. He is enthusiastic about the dematerialization of art distribution facilitated by new technologies. Collector Serie artworks will be available online (through the website Collectorserie.com) and on the iPhone/iPad.

Eric Dalbin gives a few sneak peaks into LE SON DU NOUS. Label Dalbin initiated the idea for this performance, an encounter between the designer Philippe Starck and the art collective Soundwalk centered around the quest for the essence of the human sound. LE SON DU NOUS will build a sound narration between Starck and Soundwalk, in which Starck will talk about his passion for sound, while Soundwalk will explore the history of sound, from pre-human sounds to sounds produced by human systems and constructions. This sound dialogue will be enhanced by intrumentalists, sound technicians (‘bruiteurs’), and the audience.

© DR, Photo credits to www.dalbin.com

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