"Meanwhile night was gradually falling and the sights, sounds and
sensations of the place were becoming blurred to my slumbering mind.
I thought I was sinking into an abyss, which cut through the globe."
Gérard de Nerval. Aurelia
eVanescens is an interactive audio-visual performance, a journey through various states, at the ever-shifting border between the real world and a constantly reinvented onirical universe.
Composer Todor Todoroff and videographer Laura Colmenares Guerra explore hybrid, singular and disturbing territories. With cellist Sigrid Vandenbogaerde they perform live acoustic, electroacoustic and video elements.
The cellist wears a set of inertial sensors on her chest, arms and hands. Each sensor includes 3-axis accelerometer, gyroscope and magnetometer that allow the tracking of her movements. These sensors, associated with sound analysis techniques (extraction of the frequency, the envelope, harmonic content, ...) and gestural interfaces handled by the two other interpreters, control software that (re)synthesizes and multiplies in real time sound and image. Combined, they increase the expressive possibilities of the instruments, defining new musical gestures and offering innovative writing techniques.
At the intersection of the acoustic sound and its many metamorphoses, in an intimate dialogue with the video image, eVanescens draws the viewer into an uncertain world, between disturbing strangeness, lightness and a feeling of weightlessness.
Performers :
Todor Todoroff, composition, sensors and sound interactions
Laura Colmenares Guerra, video creation and interactions
Sigrid Vandenbogaerde, cello creation
Team :
Marc Lhommel, light conception
Anne Guilleray, scénographie, costume
Yacine Sebti, video software programmation
Lise Vachon, Marcela Ruiz Quintero, dance
Production : ARTeM asbl
With the support of :
Cellule Arts Numériques de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
Vlaamse Overheid
UMons / Institut Numediart
Le Manège.Mons / TRANSDIGITAL
Le Manège.Maubeuge - Scène Nationale
La Gare Numérique de Val sur Sambre
Special thanks :
Musiques Nouvelles, Transcultures, Technocité, iMal
Website : http://www.evanescens.net/
Concerts :
26/11/2019 (FR) ARS MUSICA & LOOP Festival - Le Senghor - Brussels, Belgium.
(NL) ARS MUSICA
31/08/2018 (EN) SYNTHPOSIUM FESTIVAL - Stanislavsky Electrotheatre, Moscow, Russia.
07/12/2017 (EN) THE BALTIC SEA CULTURE CENTRE - Gdańsk, Poland.
(PL) NADBAŁTYCKIE CENTRUM KULTURY
22/04/2016 (FR) FIAV (Festival International d’Art Vidéo) - L’Usine, Centre d’Art - Casablanca, Morocco.
29/01/2016 (FR) LA SEMAINE DU SON - LE BOTANIQUE - Bruxelles, Belgium.
(NL) DE WEEK VAN DE KLANK – LE BOTANIQUE
30/10/2015 (EN) MUSICACOUSTICA - BEIJING 2015 - Beijing, China.
(CN) MUSICACOUSTICA - BEIJING 2015
28/10/2015 (EN) YU GONG YI SHAN - Beijing, China.
(CN) YU GONG YI SHAN
30/06/2014 (EN) NIME 2014 (NEW INTERFACES FOR MUSICAL EXPRESSION) -
BEAM Festival - Deptford Town Hall (Goldsmiths University), London, UK.
29/05/2014 (EN) EM15 ELEKTRA -MUTEK - International Digital Arts Festival Montréal (QC), Canada.
(FR) EM15 ELEKTRA -MUTEK
20/03/2013 (FR) INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL - ARS MUSICA 2013 – Les Brigittines, Brussels, Belgium.
(NL) INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL - ARS MUSICA 2013
11/10/2012 (EN) LE CUBE - Centre for Digital Creation - Issy-les-Moulineaux (Paris), France.
(FR) LE CUBE - Centre for Digital Creation
09/05/2012 Journées d'Informatique Musicale 2012 - Extension du Corps Sonore - Musiques Nouvelles - Maison Folie, Manège. Mons, Belgium.