#audiocubes

Here is a music video to appreciate Exomène (exomene.com) performing live. And what a better playground for industrial music than playing in a factory!

Exomène's approach is very physical and far away from music studio. Exomène always engages and interacts with its audience especially through the use of colorful and interactive performances controllers. Then the crowd in itself is also a performance controller : the movements, the color of the clothes... everything is used to interact with sounds thanks to video capture.

This approach have its real significance when Exomène's performs in A/V projects such as "X-Peri-Mental".

X-Peri-Mental is a performance realised by the collective of artists "le:d" l:ed (l : Experiments in Digital) is a group of artists currently composed by the image slayer Dorianne Wotton and the soundsmith Exomène. Collaborating since 2004 around the concept of "æsthetic of desolation" their work extends to the areas of photo, music, video, digital arts and multimedia performances. Their more recent works are "The spoken worms" (audiovisual performance), "Synæsizer" (digital art installation), "Glitch-O-matic" (digital art installation) and X-Peri-Mental (audiovisual live act). X-Peri-Mental is meant to be a live act, so l:ed always engages and interacts with its audience especially through video capture. The crowd directly shape our performance because we choose our sounds and images according to its reaction. That is why we face the audience and we use colorful and interactive performances controllers.

AudioCubes are an electronic musical instrument. They are a combination of hardware and software. The hardware consists of a collection of wireless intelligent objects, which detect each other’s position and orientation. The sensor information can be passed to software on your computer via MIDI, which can then generate sound, trigger patterns, control effects, …

A short jam by Celine on AudioCubes, using Ableton Live 8 with the operator synth. Visit the Percussa website at http://www.percussa.com/ to learn more about AudioCubes, the ultimate audiovisual live performance interface for Ableton Live and other MIDI compatible software and hardware. AudioCubes are wireless smart musical building blocks that are able to detect each other's location and orientation. Colours can be controlled via MIDI from within Live.