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Hexagone Scène Nationale in Meylan and the CCSTI Grenoble - La Casemate, in collaboration since they have founded the Biennial, will present, in the framework of the Rencontres-i 2009, the new Atelier Arts-Sciences production: The Poetic Mechanics. These interactive installations have been realised by Yann Nguema from the EZkiel group, CEA-Leti research engineers and by engineers of ERASME, multimedia centre in the Rhône Department.
Between poetry and technology...
Aesthetics evoking the industrial revolution, awakening the melancholy of our collective memories, The Poetic Mechanics condenses past and new technologies in an anachronistic way.
These installations, the outcome of a multi-disciplinary convergence, draw their power from an experimental music group’s research in artistic forms and from technology research at CEA Grenoble. Diversity beyond boundaries, a unique opportunity to find innovative approaches to the group's world.
Network of a complementary scientific partnership:
Atelier Arts-Sciences: CEA Grenoble, Hexagone Scène Nationale in Meylan
- ERASME : Multimedia Centre
ERASME is a digital innovation centre in the Rhône Department.
They investigate possibilities arising from emerging technologies like the Internet of things, natural interfaces, mobile internet, social networks. They invent, put forward and validate new applications in the public sector.
They focus on education, culture and museums, assistance to the elderly or disabled persons and with all aspects of regional development.
They raise and publicize technological awareness, inspire and get involved in these areas' thinking processes, provide demonstrators and conduct research for validation. To accomplish their mission, they host and run the Muséolab, a digital experimentation laboratory in music and museography.
Their projects are all anchored in the Rhône Department's reality involving numerous partners from public as well as from private sectors and associations.
The ERASME Centre operates digital platforms such as the "laclasse.com" or community portals in the Rhône Deprtament.
In tune with real user needs and in line with leading-edge innovation fields, ERASME holds a key position to conceive user focused services driven by continuous reinvention.
- MOVEA, a young start-up, a spin off from CEA -Leti founded in March 2007, and recently settled in at the MINATEC Centre, designs and commercialises motion micro sensors such as the MotionPod™, for the health and sports markets, able to record, to transfer and to analyse human movements in real-time.
- CCSTI Grenoble - La Casemate
La Casemate is an association labelled as "Science and Culture, Innovation" by the Ministry of Higher Education and Research in 2009. Open to all disciplines in science and arts, aware of public demand and interests with special focus on the young, the Casemate team comprises around fifteen mediators with scientific researcher, cultural, communication and journalism backgrounds. Exhibitions, creativity and/or production workshops, public debates, art and cultural events, convening social networks and resource centres...
All these partners brought their collaboration to the EZ3kiel project of eleven interactive modules in the Poetic Mechanics. Their support will allow to improve certain wireless transmission techniques, to enhance RFID chip applications, to recycle certain energies for the benefit of EZ3kiel's poetic and technological installations.
- EZ3kiel Team: Yann Nguema has for a long time been involved with new technologies. He has become a real experimenter
Yann Nguema
Having completed the first year of DEUG in Mathematics and Physics, Yann Nguema changed his study area and graduated with a Bachelor's degree in visual communication, a field that he has become more and more interested in. In 1998, he has obtained a D.N.S.E.P (Diplôme National Supérieur d’Etudes Plastiques) diploma in visual arts at the Visual Arts Institute in Orléans.
In parallel, he has been writing music and designing visuals for the EZ3kiel group since the age of eighteen aiming at binding these two ways of expression. Both music and visuals keep evolving. Static images have gradually given way to video, multimedia, interactive images and recently to installations.
The Grenoble audience had a chance to see the stage visuals he has created for the "Battlefield' tour.
Has also worked for the French Ski Federation in the framework of the Turin Olympic Games as well as for the festival "Transmusicales" in Rennes (visual designs.)
Has designed the visuals "Essaimer" and "Partager", as well as the posters "Les Mécaniques poétiques" and "Naphtaline" for the Rencontres-i Festivals. Has also designed all of the visuals in the Poetic Mechanics installations.
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INSTALLATIONS
THE MUSIC CAGE
Sound and video installation. By using a soft touch, an old cage with bars produces a harp-like sound.
Description
Sound and video installation. By using a soft touch, an old cage with bars produces a harp-like sound.
Video application is to be defined later (projecting on objects, stuffed birds, origami?) automaton, or none...
Hardware
Capturing points of contact on each bar. (minimum three octaves - from thirty-six bars up to one hundred, if possible.)
THEREMIN MADONNA
Sound and video installation. A statue (Madonna or Virgin) placed in an alcove, starts singing (musical saw-like sound, ondes Martenot) depending on the spectator's hand positioning. Similar to a theremin, different hand contacts with the statue produce different sounds in frequency and in modulation. Her singing is accompanied by light projections on the statue or the alcove.
THE PIANO
Sound and video installation. This project is partially based on its aesthetics. The piano, as a musical instrument, matches perfectly the Naphtaline world on the DVDrom. It is cut vertically in quarters (two or three octaves on the high-pitched side) preserving the keyboard mechanics. The final object is therefore a limited, but still operational piano. A flat screen is planned to replace the score.
THE STELESCOPE
Video installation. An old telescope (in wood or brass) on its tripod (azimuthal position), having a large enough diameter lens to fit a small LCD screen (8-10 inches), allows, depending on its orientation, to see a landscape in its viewing angle. Similarly to a Quick Time VR, as the lens is rotated, the landscape revolves as well. It is about recreating a virtual panoramic scene where the spectator can choose his viewing angle, his aperture (zoom) by manipulating the telescope and its adjusting knob. The image can be projected by a monitor, or an external screen, allowing outside spectators to share the scene and understand the logic behind the installation.
BOTTLES
Sound and light installation composed of 12, 24 or 36 (depending on the number of octaves) transparent glass bottles with their tops on (bonbonnière style, or pharmacy bottles), arranged according to size, like the pipes of a church organ. A verrophone-like sound arises as a top is taken off giving the impression of coming from the transparent bottle. It stops as the top is replaced. The note played is in tune according to the chromatic scale. A lighting system can enhance each bottle's sound production.
THE CYCLO-HARP
Show, based on an old sewing machine transformed into a real digital music box. Just like with a piano, the protagonist generates rhythm and melody from the Naphtaline album, by manipulating pedals and various function keys.
LOST BALLS
Manipulating a queer barometer controls the rotation of a virtual stage covered with balls and sound obstacles. Melodies are produced by the shock between the rolling balls and by setting a disc in motion.
The puzzling effect is triggered by manipulating this wireless object, in real time, to any tilt given to the stage.
CORDS
Scratching the cords of an uncommon musical instrument, a virtual piano, by moving brass keys on a screen board, lets you freely orchestrate melodies on this touch screen.
EXEBECCE GARDEN
A bicycle tour in four virtual and phantasmagorical worlds. Pedalling in two directions allows to go ahead or backwards in desert-like, lunar, or prairie-green landscapes... while pulling on the handbrake can make objects, like wind mills, lighthouses, flying machines... appear or disappear. Each object is associated with a sound combined in a multitude of variations according to pedalling and using the brake. Ringing the bell allows to change worlds in a split second.
WORKSHOP
An "electro-wave" workshop for the young...
Without revealing technical secrets behind EZ3kiel's Poetic Mechanics, the CCSTI Grenoble offers a discovery and initiation workshop to the young to explore sound and electromagnetic operations. From Chaldni plates to electronic fireflies, this is a sound and electromagnetic waves universe.
Designed for touring, these installations complement the sound and visual world of the EZ3kiel group.
View the Poetic Mechanics vidéo
Produced by:
The Atelier Arts-Sciences, Hexagone Scène Nationale in Meylan, CEA Grenoble.
Co-produced by: ERASME, MOVEA
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