[spectre] Interactive and immersive installations : SpherAleas and Akousmaflore at Ososphere festival

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Interactive and immersive installations : SphèrAléas and Akousmaflore at
Ososphère festival

We invite you to discover our immersive and interactive installation SphèrAléas
and the interactive artwork Akousmaflore : Sensitive and interactive musical
plants  during Ososphère festival at La Laiterie of Strasbourg from the 25 Sept
to the 3 Oct 2009.

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SphèrAléas : Tridimensional interactive / sound / image installation
Scenocosme : Grégory Lasserre & Anaïs met den Ancxt
http://www.spheraleas.com/a_index.htm

SphèrAléas is made of a half-spherical structure and of an evolutionary device
wich makes man, image and sound interact thanks to digital tools. SphèrAléas is
ideal for collective performances. It’s a safe space of oneiric creations in
which the public creates, handles, juxtaposes, superimposes sonorous, pictural
shapes unstable and reactive. Like for the learning of a musical instrument,
people must take time to experiment it. Collectively, they must pay particular
attention to compose a melody. Spectators are sitting around a hearth which is
materialized by a hemispherical mirror. They can manipulate sensitive device in
order to create visual and sonorous symphonies. By manipulating the sensors, the
spectator-musician can continuously intervene on the whole structure by playing
with the different variables: order, side-by-side positioning, overlapping,
speed, rhythm, harmonic pitch
 It is a kind of orchestra : there is a conductor
who guides musicians, and coordinates the organization of visual and sonorous
objects. The scenography is designed for complete immersion of the spectator
thanks to interactive sensors, a multipoint sound diffusion, a video projection
system (180°), within a half spherical membranous architecture. This original
shared experiment becomes a poem of sensations: inside this womb-like space,
sensitive perceptions are amplified, modified until a multitude of unexpected
metaphorical worlds resonate.

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Akousmaflore : Sensitive and interactive musical plants
Scenocosme : Grégory Lasserre & Anaïs met den Ancxt
http://www.scenocosme.com/akousmaflore_en.htm

Akousmaflore is a small garden composed of living musical plants, which react to
human gestures and to gentle contact. Each plant reacts in a different way to
contact or warmth by producing a specific sound. The plant «language» or song
occurs through touch and the close proximity of the spectator. Our invisible
electrical aura acts on the plant branches and encourages them to react. The
plants sing when the audience is touching or stroking lightly them. A plant
concert is created.

In our artwork, we create hybrids between plants and digital technology. Plants
are natural sensors and are sensitive to various energy flows.
Digital technologies permit us to establish a relationship between plants and
sound. We display the effects of random data flow and plant interaction. The
data is modified as the spectator meanders around and touches the installation,
resulting in a random musical universe. Audience gestures and movements generate
sound effects and changes in the texture of the sound.

Our body continually produces an electrical and heat aura, which cannot be felt.
This phenomenon exists in the environment immediately surrounding us. In our
research, the «design of the invisible», our approach is to animate that which
we cannot detect. Mixing reality with imagination, we propose a sensory
experience that encourages us to think about our relationship with other living
things and with energy. Indoor plants can have an ambiguous existence that
swings between decorative object and living being. It is said that «inanimate
objects» can react when they receive human attention. Through Akousmaflore,
plants let us know about their existence by a scream, a melody or an acoustical
vibration.



Les nuits electroniques de l'Ososphere / La laiterie - Strasbourg (FR)
SphèrAléas & Akousmaflore
Exhibition : 25 Sept - 3 Oct 2009


SCENOCOSME : PRESENTATION
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The french artists couple : scenocosme is made by Gregory Lasserre and Anais met
den Ancxt.

Anaïs was born in Lyon in 1981. She is graduated from the university of Lyon in
anthropology, from the Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts in Lyon, and from the
Ecole Supérieure d’Art et de Design of St Etienne.
Grégory was born in Annecy in 1976, he has studied Computer Science and
Electronics, he is graduated from a Master in Multimedia and created interactive
artwork since 2002 as a digital artist.

They use interactive art, music and architecture in order to create evolutionary
and interactive artwork. With multiple forms of expression, they invite the
spectator to be in the centre of musical or choreographic collective
performances.

Scenocosme have exhibited their artworks at ZKM Centre for Art and Media
(Germany), BIACS3 - International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville
(SPAIN), ISEA2009 - International Symposium Electronic Arts (Ireland / UK) and
many digital art festivals in France (EXIT, VIA, Scopitone, Arborescence, Mal au
Pixel, 38e Rugissant... ) and others countries (Futuresonic (UK), WRO (Poland),
Streamfest, SHARE (Italy), ACM SIGRRAPH (Germany) ) in art and cultural center
(Kibla multimedia center (Slovenia), Carré des Jalles, Maison Salvan...)


... Full Biography : http://www.scenocosme.com/bio_e.htm


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Scenocosme : Grégory Lasserre & Anaïs met den Ancxt
tel : 06 61 09 50 52
http://www.scenocosme.com
http://www.spheraleas.com
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