PREPARED PROJECTOR
Improvised performance for two instrumentalists
OLIVIER PERRIQUET 16mm film and projectors
QUENTIN CONRATE live music
The 16mm projector has been physically altered in the spirit of extended techniques in music. An analog film scrolls slowly past a microscopy camera. The image is produced live through direct manipulations of light and camera. Contact microphones capture the projector’s internal movements and vibrations for live amplification. The projector is staged with the performers.
With a special affinity for visual perception and optics and privileging a site-specific approach, Olivier Perriquet (Lille, 1974) has been practicing live cinema and installation for twenty years, often in collaboration with sound artists and musicians. Be it expanded cinema or video, installations and performances, his work frequently and implicitly refers to the scientific imagination and its language. Drawing on media archaeology, taking up Flusser’s idea of “playing against the apparatus”, he crosses disciplines until one can no longer distinguish which media produces which form, using noise, the emergence of form, recognition of a ground within a form, as means of access to the ineffable in human and nonhuman experience.
Mainly focused on improv, Quentin Conrate is a sound artist and drummer active in contemporary music, musical theater and different fields of experimental art. He developed a specific approach on the drum set by reducing its elements. He called this new setup “incomplete drum kit” which allows him to explore the possibilities of creating a new set of acoustic sounds with its technics. His works are often cross visual art and sound, dealing with space and movement. Currently working with different dance performance and theatre companies, he's also writing his own pieces performed as solos or for different projects. He’s frequently touring in Europe with numerous musicians and released many CDs on labels worldwide.