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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…
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“[...And that's 1000 people, plus Philippe Starck, at MAC Créteil, who let out a cry together - the goal of Le Son du Nous - as a part of a history in sound, created by the Soundwalk collective, world-renowned specialists of sound, beginning with the noise of the birth of the cosmos up until September 11...amazing, this story.... So in the end Le Son du Nous was a challenge for Philippe Starck - I met with him afterwards backstage to discuss the results....]”
We are publishing the audio recording from an interview of Philippe Starck with radio station France Bleu’s show “Les nuits parisiennes,” which took place after one of the two performances of Le Son du Nous this past weekend.
In the audio above, Starck speaks to journalist Antoine Leiris about the explosion of human energy, of intensity, and of the self that erupts at the end of the performance, showing us finally that sound is concrete. He was honored, he continues, to present the work of the musicians, sound artists and technicians. Numerous audience members go on to describe the performance as “extraordinary,” “spontaneous,” “innovative,” and “moving.” Leiris points out that Starck,in exploring new and unfamiliar areas of art, took a risk in leading such a performance, but that such a risk was easily accommodated by the fertile environment of MAC Créteil’s Exit Festival.
Listen to the audio (in French only), and click here to check out more shows available through Radio France.
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Thanks to everyone who came to see LE SON DU NOUS at the International Exit Festival at MAC Créteil this past weekend! We had a great turnout and two fantastic performances. We hope that you all enjoyed the show!
The show was talked about on French radio RFI (Radio France International) last Sunday (March 22nd) in Culture Vive, a daily French arts and culture radio show.
Journalist José Marinho interviewed Philippe Starck and Stephan Crasneanscki right after the show Friday.
“[We will try to explore the effects of sound... In this show, this adventure, I have no idea what will happen-- during the show or after]“, said Philippe Starck.
This search for the “mysterious sound of us”, “[will start in the cosmos, we will land on the ground and pass through the air. We will plunge into the sea, and we will traverse the earth," says Starck.
On the inspiration for this adventure, the designer remarks that "[people are constantly listening to music and the radio. But we don't ask why. I believe it's because we're looking for the sound of ourselves. It lets you create an egg, an environment where you can feel secure. Even the most inspid little song, if it can do that, is the place we need to be.]”
“[We are taking sound, manipulating it, playing with it, and giving it a different place than it has today, for example, in movies and on television]“, Soundwalk founder Stephan Crasneanscki tells the interviewer.
Crasneanski gives a rundown of the unique soundtrack for LE SON DU NOUS, assembled using Soundwalk’s archives, built over the past decade. The sources are “incredibly varied”: from the three months he recently spent recording hertz frequencies on the Mediterranean for his Ulysses Syndrome project, to the collection of sounds and voice-mails from the events of September 11th used in the Ground Zero Soundwalk.
“[You can't explain sound: it is emotion]“, concludes Crasneanscki. “[What we will do in this show is create a moment of climax, of violence: if it is alive, if it makes you sick, if it’s disagreeable, whatever happens you will take that experience with you. You will leave with that emotion.]”
Listen here to Philippe Starck and Stephan Crasneanscki’s interviews for Culture Vive (French only.)
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Radio France International – Interviews with Stephan Crasneanscki & Philippe Starck
Photo credit: Yves Malenfer
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!
Soundwalk is so pleased to announce its collaboration with Philippe Starck for the performance show “LE SON DU NOUS” at MAC Créteil’s 2010 International Exit Festival on Friday the 19th and Saturday the 20th of March.
Dalbin initiates, directs and produces “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.
Philippe Starck and Soundwalk invite you to a collective adventure in the form of a search for the sounds that we lack. Are they voices, notes, noises? Through a performance in three parts, we will explore sound as a symbol of life; of the cycle of creation and destruction.
This resonant exploration is based on a playful dialogue between Philippe Starck, Soundwalk, and the public. Through altered reality, the manipulation of sound, and musical interpretations, this performance show, conceived for the Exit Festival, will guide the audience together to the discovery of a unique sound: the sound of Us.
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EXCLUSIVE CONTENT COMING SOON ON THE SOUNDWALK BLOG.
Throughout the month of March, we will provide on our blog an exclusive look into the production of the spectacle and our collaboration with Starck: extracts from our previous collaboration “24 Hours: the Starck Mix”, interviews, backstage views of the making of the spectacle, and more.
