Bricolage Architecture (2024-2025)
Audiovisual performance for modular synthesis and stop-motion animation.
In Bricolage Architecture every image is crafted by hand using cardboard cutouts laid out on a light tablet. Following that idea, all the sounds in the performance are carved out of breath by transforming bits and pieces of voice and flute using the modular synthesizer. This process induces a human feel to images and sounds we more often associate with a digital aesthetic. By doing so, Bricolage Architecture creates a tension between the irregularities of the human gesture and the systematic execution of the machine. It questions the position of the imperfect human body in a world of technological perfection.
« Performing as SEULEMENT, Montreal producer and musician Mathieu A. Seulement may have brought one of the most visually straightforward sets to MUTEK, but it’s one we can’t get out of our minds. Named Bricolage Architecture, the show utilised a healthy dose of strobed images – mostly black and white shapes – alongside modular synth swells, bleeps, bloops, and experimental sonic constructions. The off-kilter rhythms and off-beat drops were a challenging start for the Nocturne crowd, and just when the tracks seemed to become a bit more repetitive or danceable, SEULEMENT would twist them into something surreal, much like the mutating squares and cross sections on the screens. » - Crack Magazine UK -
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