- Interactive installation, a tribute to symphonique music
- Conception Jacopo Baboni Schilingi
- Music by Beethoven, Brahms, Schumann, Mahler, Ravel and Jacopo Baboni Schilingi
- Music assistant Thomas Aguettaz
- Scenography Romuald Boissenin
- Engeneering technology Guillaume Bertrand
- Sculptor Benoît Mesnier
- Molding Franck Thième
- Ironworker Thomas Naulin
- Executive producer Ensemble de Musique Interactive
70 anniversary of the Festival de Musique de Besançon, France
From 5th to 21st of September 2018
"An orchestra (invisible) tunes.
A passer-by wanders among ancient remains.
Stopping on a piece of column, it triggers a group of instruments playing an element of a symphonic work.
Joined by other visitors who evolve in their turn in space, the digital installation gives to hear other instrumental families, reconstituting the complete orchestra.
The group leaves the space.
The virtual orchestra starts again to tune.
Sound and visual installation, Curiosity offers a new way of meeting with the symphonic world through an interactive virtual orchestra inviting the public to break down and recompose a symphonic piece. Curiosity offers a new way of meeting the symphonic world through an interactive virtual orchestra inviting the public to break down and recompose a symphonic piece.
Moving in the middle of an original scenography, the public becomes a spectator of the installation: when it is positioned on an identified point, a group of instruments plays a fragment of a symphonic work Beethoven, Brahms, Schumann, Mahler and Ravel.. If he remains motionless, he will hear only part of the orchestra, but if he moves in space, or if several people are present on the device, the set of instruments will be heard little by little. Curiosity invites passersby to play with a symphonic work by becoming the "leader" of an interactive virtual orchestra!
The musical piece is composed from citations of repertoire works associated with "bridges" allowing a link in morphing between each extract. Upon initiation by a visitor of the room, it will run as long as the sensors are activated. At the end of the work, or in case of inactivity, it is the atmosphere of an orchestra tuning that will be broadcast.
This installation is part of a process of opening up symphonic music to as many people as possible, by creating a new mode of encounter between the symphony orchestra and the general audience. The symphonic music that usually requires quiet and immobile listening, is found here in the public space, place of passage and life.
In this installation, the presence and the body of the spectator - and not that of the musician, as usual - are then revelatory of the music, since it is by their only presence / action that it can at once to play and to listen to each other.
