Keen to push boundaries, Experimenter En Couleur produces
works using both traditional and emerging technologies
to express new relationships between sound, colour,
form, time and the users.
The multidisciplinary artworks are often interactive
and generative pieces and can involve sculpture, installation,
performance, found objects, live organisms, scientific
data, the use of artefacts and sound,
Other Experimenter En Couleur work and information:
Much
of Experimenter En Couleur's sound work is in the production
of generative instruments. Chance operations in the making
of the instrument and the way the instruments play their
pallete, gives a freeness and experimental nature to the
compositions. Each instrument is grown from seed and so
in turn is the musical experience. (hear tracks at foot
of page)
This is test footage from the See-Sound project using
a modified digital oscilloscope to represent the visual
element to generative sounds of the self built ProjectC
synthesiser. The
aim is to develop a device with which one can paint sound
in real time. This will enable the marking of a digital
canvas, to produce abstract films, at the same time playing
a sound according to the form and colour frequency of
the mark made on the canvas. This visual representation
by no means meets the See-Sound rules, but goes some way
to portraying space, pitch and texture.
ProjectC001_SeeSound
Test 090618_016
INSTALLATION
WORKS
From
the interactive generative artworks of the See-Sound Tests
and Evolution Synthetica at the V&A, to multi million
pound builds like the Glass & Light Canopy at Cardinal
Place, Experimenter realises work in many mediums and at
many scales.
Right, a multi touch lissajous test interface, that displays
touch sensitive three dimensional waveforms across four
windows, ready for real-time manipulation.
Below, a snapshot from an earlier ProjectC002 test, showing
several three dimensional waveforms with minor distortion.
Presentation
of See-Sound test, ProjectC002 at Shunt
A symbiotic performance of evolving sound and image. Live
experiments describing evolutionary processes use generative
sound synthesis, microscopy, macro footage and live generative
digital animation to create a sensory spectacle bridging
art and science.
Evolution
Synthetica at the V&A, London
A dynamic installation of immersive media, referring to
the house of the future. It explores digital tracking
and computer technology to control our local environment
through interaction with lo-fi inanimate objects, in this
case the tea
set.
The
Digital Tea Party
In collaboration with Yan Jun, the installation refers
to the history of the district by taking live sound signals
from the original ductwork that form the axis into the
gallery site. Visitors are drawn towards the gallery by
resonating mechanical and generative sound pulses, to
discover its mechanical source.
Photos by Yan Jun
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Factory Installation - DIAF 2008, Beijing
RELEASES
ABOUT
BUY
& HEAR
Testing
The Wheel EP
AARCH-001
A limited edition release of 400 hand made and numbered
CDs by Experimenter En Couleur.
This first Experimenter En Couleur release appeared in 2007.
This brought something fresh into the world that could bridge
gaps between genres and interest a varied audience.
The adjacent column quotes Mike Smallfish's review.
'You'll want to check this excellent release out if you're
a fan of such labels as Raster Noton or 12k. There's a definite
nod to those labels and associated artists on this first
release for new label Audio Architecture, yet it confounds
those expectations by being a thoroughly engaging and somewhat
unusual piece of work. Beautifully presented with a tracing
paper sleeve and with a limited press you get 5 tracks that
range between click-driven, minimal work and a more free-flowing
style of electronic music that references jazz and classical.
Thoughtfully arranged and produced to a very high standard,
this is a release that should see the artist gaining a much
wider profile... they certainly deserve it. Recommended'.
This edition has sold out but you can find two of the tracks
from this EP on the debut album Testing
The Wheel.
What is it? Electronic, free-jazz, contemporary-classical,
noise?
Yet again, a true exploration of new and exciting territory.
Adjacent are the booklet liner notes.
CD
- Presented in a beautiful hand punched, cut and stamped
wallet by the artist. Printed disk and booklet shows artwork
by the artist to represent musical scores and sources.
Limited
Delux Vinyl Edition - These limited run of 40 disks
come in Mobile Fidelity's archive quality Master Sleeve
and are housed in a hand punched, cut and stamped slipcase
by the artist. (Each is supplied with CD or WAV download).
Presented here are the first recorded works following a
decade of experimentation. These early compositions aim
to refine and define several methods in generative music
making, to prove the indefinite moods and experiences possible
and understand more of how the listener is stimulated by
such unfamiliar territory. The compositions break from the
barriers of scale and timing associated with traditional
music to allow the freedom to explore new possibilities.
All use generative tools in their music creation and are
the outcome of self-made audio and visual synthesisers coupled
to different stimuli. Control comes in varying degrees from
the rules set at the beginning of the development process.
Methods for playing the machines vary greatly according
to project. Unexpected outcomes are celebrated and essential
to the process.