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MONTHLY ARCHIVES: June 2010

KILL THE EGO FEATURED ON THE CREATORS PROJECT


The Creators Project is a new network dedicated to the celebration of creativity and culture across media around the world, gathering “the world’s most creative minds”, in partnership with Intel and Vice Magazine.

“At a time in the history of the arts where digital technologies have revolutionized distribution, democratized access, and completely re-imagined the scope and scale with which an artist can create a vision and reach an audience, The Creators Project is a completely new kind of arts and culture channel for a completely new kind of world”

This week, The Creators Project features a series of projects initiated by Dalbin, and among others the movie “Kill The Ego” realised by Soundwalk in collaboration with Rostarr.

Check out Kill the Ego’s page on The Creators Project’s website

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KILL THE EGO ON COLLECTORSERIE

“Kill the Ego” is available for purchase through the Collectorserie iPhone/iPad application. Collectorserie is a visual and musical works of art collection that was developped by Dalbin in collaboration with mobile agency Clicmobile, with the objective of placing contemporary video and sound creation at the collector’s fingertips.

SOUNDWALK IN LE NOUVEL OBS’ LIFESTYLE BLOG

Nouvel Obs This thursday, Camille Kiejman, editor of Le Nouvel Observateur’s fashion and lifestyle blog “En mode Libre” talks about one of her “coup de coeur” of the year, namely the soundwalks. After a quick description of the origins and concept of Soundwalk, she reviews the different tours that are available in Paris : Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Le Marais, Le Palais Royal, Belleville, Pigalle. Having tried out all the Parisian Soundwalks herself, she offers an authentic overview of her impressions and gives out her own recommandations about the tours.

“Soundwalk is a really unique experience, a way of looking at the city and travelling in just one hour, but also a way to learn things and get away from everything. My advice : do it together with someone else, it gives the impression to be plugged into a secret frequency and to escape from the nervous spin of the everyday city life.”

Read Camille Kiejman’s article on Le Nouvel Observateur’s blog (in French)

More info about the tours on Soundwalk’s website

Have a look at Soundwalk’s tours catalogue in the Soundwalk iPhone App

PHOTOS FROM ULYSSES’ SYNDROME IN SHANGHAI

As promised, here are some photos of Ulysses’ Syndrome, Soundwalk’s audio-visual project exhibited at the Lille Europe Pavillon at the Expo 2010 in Shanghai.

Ulysses’ Syndrome is a sonic and visual artwork retracing the journey of Ulysses across the Mediterranean Sea, from Troy to Ithaca. In 2009, the Soundwalk collective set out on an adventure  on board a ship specially equipped with long range antennaes, recording the hertzian frequencies along the shores of the sea.

The installation is being shown until the 15th of July 2010.

Access information and opening hours can be found on Lille Europe Pavillon’s website

Find out more about Ulysses’ Syndrome and listen to audio samples of the installation on Soundwalk’s website

UN PARCOURS SOUNDWALK GRATUIT LUNDI 14 JUIN !

NYC - Ground Zero - Meeting Point

Pour fêter l’arrivée des beaux jours, Soundwalk vous offre un parcours gratuit à choisir directement dans sa nouvelle  application iPhone le lundi 14 Juin 2010.

L’application Soundwalk donne accès à un catalogue d’audio guides d’un genre nouveau.

Visitez le quartier de votre choix à Paris ou New York au son de la voix d’une personnalité qui vous fera découvrir sa ville de façon inédite.

Lieux secrets, adresses incontournables, bons plans… Pendant une heure, marchez dans les pas d’un guide pas comme les autres.

St Germain des Prés avec l’actrice Virginie Ledoyen, Ground Zero à New York avec l’écrivain Paul Auster, la naissance du Hip-Hop dans le Bronx avec les rappeurs Jazzy Jay et Afrika Bambaataa

L’application Soundwalk est gratuite. Vous pouvez télécharger les parcours en version démo (les 2 premières étapes vous sont offertes) ou complète (4,99€).

Apple

Ce lundi, Soundwalk vous offre un parcours au choix dans son application (au lieu de 4,99€) !

> Installer l’application Soundwalk sur l’AppStore d’Apple

> Regarder la vidéo démo de l’application sur Youtube

Télécharger des photos de l’application

> Soundwalk sur Vimeo : regarder les trailers des parcours audio Soundwalk

Promotion disponible également sur www.appgratuites.com

SOUNDWALK TAKES YOU ON A FREE TOUR THIS MONDAY !

NYC - Ground Zero - Meeting Point

To celebrate the beginning of summer, Soundwalk offers you one free tour to choose from the Soundwalk iPhone App catalogue.

In Paris or New York, visit the neighbourhood of your choice, to the sound of the voice of a celebrity with whom you will discover the city in a whole new way. Secret spots, places you can’t miss, insider’s tips… For one hour, walk in the footsteps of a guide unlike any other.

Saint Germain des Prés with French actress Virginie Ledoyen, New York’s Ground Zero with author Paul Auster, the birth of Hip-Hop in the Bronx with rappers Jazzy Jay and Afrika Bambaataa.

The Soundwalk iPhone App is free. In the app, each tour can be downloaded in both demo (which gives you access to the first two chapters) and full versions (4,99€ / $5.99).

Apple

On Monday June, 14th, Soundwalk offers you one audio tour in full version for free (instead of 4.99€/5.99$) !

> Install the Soundwalk application on Apple’s AppStore

> Watch the application demo video on Youtube

> Download App screenshots

> Watch the trailers of Soundwalk’s audio-tours on Vimeo

Promotion also available on www.appgratuites.com

KILL THE EGO AT FRENCH FESTIVAL SECONDE NATURE

“Kill The Ego” from Soundwalk to Rostarr (Trailer) from Dalbin on Vimeo.

Soundwalk is happy to announce the screening of its movie “Kill The Ego” at Seconde Nature Festival’s fourth Edition in Aix-en-Provence, this week-end.

Seconde Nature is a multidisciplinary Festival dedicated to the most recent creative sound, visual, art and multi-media works in the fields of electronic music, digital art, and “other cultural oddities”.

Kill The Ego” began as a song, as an epic 40-minute-long poem composed of 10 years of sound recordings captured in New York by Soundwalk between 1998 and 2008. The fragmented memories of poets and dominatrixes, of pimps and prophets, of visionaries and lost children – the gamut of stories from the street: of the most obscure corners, of underground unrest, intimate and universal biographies of Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx – Soundwalk has captured and woven together the sounds, conversations, and songs of urbanity. Initiated by Dalbin, this soundtrack of New York City has been represented visually onscreen by the artist Rostarr, who used the sound recordings as a launch for an art series documented by directors Jim Helton and Ron Patane. Inspired by the technique used in Henri-Georges Clouzot’s masterpiece “Le mystère Picasso”, the directors sought to give life to the creative process and gave birth to the aural and visual work that is the film Kill the Ego.

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TICKETS TO WIN

Clark Magazine is giving away free tickets to the Festival, more info : click here

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SCREENINGS : FRIDAY 11 AND SATURDAY 12 OF JUNE, 7PM – 2AM

“Kill The Ego” will be shown along with four other films on Friday 11th and Saturday 12th of June,  from 7PM to 2AM, at Fondation Vasarely, Aix-En-Provence.

More info about screenings on Seconde Nature’s website

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KILL THE EGO ON COLLECTORSERIE

“Kill the Ego” is available for purchase through the Collectorserie iPhone/iPad application. Collectorserie is a visual and musical works of art collection that was developped by Dalbin in collaboration with mobile agency Clicmobile, with the objective of placing contemporary video and sound creation at the collector’s fingertips.

MY FIRST SOUNDWALK RENDEZ-VOUS

As one of the most famous places in Paris, the area of Saint Germain des Prés has progressively become a symbol of the city itself in the eyes of many. As a true Parisian, born and raised in the city, I certainly did not expect to discover anything new about the classic Saint Germain des Prés quartier when I started to stroll around the area of Café de Flore. It did not take long for me to realise that I was going onboard something special. As I wandered around the neighbourhood, I was accompanied by the sensual and elegant voice of French actress Virgine Ledoyen. While I walked, she offered me the chance to seize the beauty and the mystery that inhabits Saint Germain des Prés, and to capture its extraordinary intellectual heritage, which has come to represent the very essence of France’s cultural exception. Far from all the clichés that usually surround this part of Paris, this warm afternoon of June will remain in my memory as the day when I finally discovered the intriguing and passionate essence of Parisian history and lifestyle: the myth that is Saint Germain des Prés.

More info about Saint Germain des Prés Soundwalk

Watch the trailer

Get it as MP3 or iPhone app

VIDEO FROM “LE SON DU NOUS”

« Le Son du Nous » by Philippe Starck & Soundwalk (Sample 1) from Dalbin on Vimeo.

Check this video from the beginning of “Le Son du Nous”, the show Soundwalk and Philippe Starck performed at MAC Créteil’s Festival EXIT last March. Surf the blog for more information about “Le Son du Nous”: photos, press clips, audio samples…

Courtesy of Label Dalbin