 |
 |
 |
 |
« 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
French design, fashion and culture journal Blast Magazine has featured an interview of Philippe Starck on their website this month (April 2010). Philippe Starck talks about his passion for sound and music and his lifelong search for his own sound. The interview was recorded in anticipation of the performance of le Son du Nous, a sonic adventure that was the result of a collaboration between Soundwalk, Starck and Dalbin which premiered at MAC Créteil March 18 and 19, 2010. Blast and Starck had already met to discuss sound last year, where the designer named the three sounds most personal to him.
Thanks, Blast, for the coverage!
Video Credit: Starck – Le son de nous from Blast on Vimeo.
Le Son du Nous will be broadcast in full this coming Sunday, April 11, on Radio France’s France Culture show “Atelier de Création Radiophonique”. This radio broadcast is a follow-up to the sold-out success of the Le Son du Nous performances at MAC Créteil on March 19 and 20, 2010. If you were unable to make it, or if you’d like to hear the show again at home over a cup of coffee, wrap up the weekend with France Culture’s broadcast of Philippe Starck’s and Soundwalk’s explorative sound collaboration. The show will also broadcast for the first time a 15-minute audio clip from Ulysses’ Voyage, our upcoming sound piece that will be exhibited as a sonic and visual installation during Shanghai World Expo in May.
More info on the broadcast here.
To explore Le Son du Nous in more detail, read a recap of Starck’s interview with France Inter; see photos from the show; watch an interview with Stephan Crasneanscki about the concept behind the show and a video of the finale.
Download the podcast here.
Photo credits to Yves Malenfer.
The Flash Player and a browser with Javascript support are needed..
Photo credit: Yves Malenfer for Label Dalbin
At the end of the performance of LE SON DU NOUS at MAC Créteil this past weekend, Philippe Starck asked all of the spectators to become actors in the show by emitting a collective scream. In an interview with France Inter’s Alternatives on Thursday, March 18 before the spectacle, Starck explained that he wanted to ask this of the audience because, “it is the one sound that we are all able to make, together.”
This great video was captured by a member of our audience! Watch it to hear the united scream of 1,000 people: the sound of Us!
Click here to see more audience video from LE SON DU NOUS.
Thanks to Youtube user TheCleank for the video.
“[...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.
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
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.)
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
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!
Nowness.com is revealing a stunning preview of LE SON DU NOUS!
Visit their website to see an exclusive picture of yesterday’s rehearsals with Philippe Starck, listen to a four-minute audio clip of Soundwalk’s soundtrack for the show, and for sneak peeks and interviews with Philippe Starck and Soundwalk’s Stephan Crasneanscki!
Nowness.com is an exciting new luxury website by LVMH whose content is curated by Jefferson Hack (Dazed and Confused, Another Magazine), setting a new standard for experiencing high-end fashion, culture and global events digitally. The site features daily content from the most respected and innovative creatives working today, discussing only the best in the worlds of fashion, art, culture and travel.
Tickets to LE SON DU NOUS are going fast! Reserve your place online here, or call the box office at 01 45 13 19 19. See the show at MAC Créteil tonight (Friday, March 19) and tomorrow (Saturday March 20).
See you at the show!
Photo credit: Yves Malenfer
24 Hours: The Starck Mix is a “bespoke” mix created as a gift for the designer Philippe Starck. The project, arranged, composed, and mixed by Soundwalk was over a year in the making. It is a unique mix of ambient sounds, music, and voices made available in the form of an iphone application in partnership with Wallpaper.
In an interview with French radio France Culture, Starck named 24 Hours: The Starck Mix as “the most beautiful gift [he] has ever received.”
Listen to an exclusive 20 minute clip from 24 Hours: The Starck Mix at 4pm.
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
Soundwalk and Starck will present the performance show, LE SON DU NOUS, at MAC Créteil’s International Exit Festival, March 19th and 20th. The performance will provide a unique look at another side of the well known designer, as he shares with us his passion for sound.
To buy tickets, call 01 45 13 19 19 or click here to book on MAC Créteil’s site.
