Espaces Sonores – interactive installations

Espaces sonores is a collection of interactive installations on show organized by the Shadok, SaxOpen, and Strasbourg University as part of the World Saxophone Congress 2015.

The digital era has given rise to many important trends, with some of the most prominent among them focusing on ideas of networks, participation and the convergence of media. The interactive arts draw very widely on these ideas in order to appropriate new fields of investigation and expression.

The Espaces sonores exhibition highlights this interactive approach and invites the public to take part in the creative process: trigger a sound by a mere physical presence, and then modify it with a gesture; enter into and transform the sonic texture using installation-instruments, touch-screen scores and other unusual interfaces.


Nicole Johänntgen Solo (Premiere)

Saxophonist Nicole Johänntgen’s new sound enterprise takes off. With electronic parameters she creates her own new colourful sound world.

PULP

Based on the life and works of prolific American underground poet and novelist Charles Bukowski, this work will be of substantial technical and emotional complexity.

“split tree [Wintergarden]”

Performance of C.R. Kasprzyk’s saxophone orchestra, “split tree [Wintergarden]”. The project’s aim is to illustrate the link between music and nature with stereo fixed media.

Electronic concert

The different saxophones used are intensified and amplified using live electronics. The recorded electronic part is a support to the melodic lines. The spatialized sound offers a polyphonic experience.

Guay-Mendoza performance

Two works : a world premiere for saxophone duo composed by the Canadian Bruce Mather and a trio for two saxophones, piano and electronics by the French Ana Dall’Ara Majek.

Birth/Rebirth

A voice-saxophone duo devoted to the music of today. Duo Dela plays pieces of contemporary
composers. Through the meaning of the lyrics, a whole coherent and complete artistic
object is created.

Two New Works for Alto Saxophone

Two performances: On and off, off and on by Anthony Vine melds the live saxophone with electronic soundscape, and a premiere written specifically for the 2015 Word Saxophone Congress by John Hilliard