Audio and visual performance, Tempest associates the analog instruments of Franck Vigroux with the visual algorithms of Antoine Schmitt, to create a real system-universes of pure chaos, that can be seen in the movements of millions of particles and can be heard through the roaring of air.

By manipulating the internal forces of this chaos, the performers give birth to audio and visual shapes that develop in time, with more or less stability, more or less evidence, recreating the sound and fury of a kind of original maelstrom, where indistinct molecules start to group as bacterias, to become shape, to become life.

After the performance last May at Mutek festival in Montreal, in Flussi they will present their strong sensorial impact show.

Franck Vigroux

Proteiform musician and composer, leader of the French and international music scene, he manages to combine in his music the electro-acoustic research on analog devices (synthesizers, modules in feedback, tapes) with the most racy electronic music and with the club music. Aggressive and elegant, immersive and edgy, with influences ranging from Pan Sonic to musique concrète to hörspiel, Vigroux’s sonic universe is often obscure but capable of engaging the listener to physical and emotional level.

He regularly collaborates with musicians and visual artists from the likes of Mika Vainio, Antoine Schmitt, Elliott Sharp, Ben Miller, Zeena Perkins, Kaspar Toepliz, Joey Baron … as well as theater and contemporary dance. Since 2000 he repeatedly performed in the United States, in Europe and in Japan either in festivals or in clubs, receiving also awards and mentions.

Antoine Schmitt

Installation artist based in Paris, Antoine Schmitt creates artworks in the form of objects, installations or situations : dynamic systems, of minimalist aesthetics, to address the notion of programmed movement, as shape and as point of view.

Originally programming engineer in human computer interactions and artificial intelligence, he places the program at the core of most of his artworks, to question the modalities of the free being in complex systems of reality.

Antoine Schmitt, alone or through collaborations, has undertaken a confrontation of this approach with more established artistic fields like music, dance, architecture, literature or cinema, of which he revisits the codes. His work has received several awards in international festivals (transmediale, Ars Electronica, UNESCO International festival of Video-Dance, Sonar, Digital Turku, Vida 5.0 and many others)

Tempest is supported by Alliance Française

Teatro Carlo Gesualdo | aug 30 2013