This Special Audio Visual Show invited two artists recommended by the French Consulate in Shanghai to give a 2-hour live performance with a domestic pioneer artist group. As a special performance of OPEN STAGE, it provides a platform for cultural exchanges.
Performance time: October 12, 2023 19:00-21:00
Performance location: Main hall on the fifth floor of TX Huaihai Master
The audience seating area provides booths, camping chairs, and bean curd sofas.
Performance rundown:
19:00-20:00 “The Rising Tide”
Interpretation by independent audiovisual team (pill)
Music producer Voision Xi, Li Xinliiii
20:00-21:00 “Time and Space Still”
Installation artist Antoine Schmitt
Musician/Composer Franck Vigroux
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Franck Vigroux & Antoine Schmitt multimedia video performance
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This performance was performed live by two artists, Franck Vigroux played music with electronic instruments, and Antoine Schmitt played images with visual instruments created by himself. The two performers follow an open score in a semi-improvisation, performing in sync by eye and ear.
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Antoine Schmitt
Installation artist. Creating artworks in the form of objects, installations and situations that illustrate processes of movement in all forms and question conceptual questions of their inherent plastic, philosophical or social nature. As a successor to kinetic and cybernetic art, nourished by metaphysical science fiction, he endlessly questions the dynamic interaction between human nature and the nature of reality.
Originally a programming engineer in the fields of human-machine relations and artificial intelligence, he uses programming as a contemporary artistic material, unique for its active qualities, placed at the heart of most artworks to reveal and actually manipulate dangerous forces. Antoine Schmitt also combined this approach with more established artistic fields such as music, dance, architecture, literature or film, and collaborated with Franck Vigroux, Atau Tanaka, Vincent Epplay, Jean-Jacques Birgé, Delphine Doukhan, K.Danse, Patrice Belin, Don Nino, Cubenx, Alberto Sorbelli, Matthew Bourne…
As theorist, speaker and editor of the grain.org portal, Antoine Schmitt explores the field of procedural art.
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Franck Vigroux
French musician/composer, versatile artist. His compositions range from electroacoustic and experimental electronic music to contemporary compositions, improvisations, radio compositions, progressive rock and more. Known primarily as a guitarist, he also operates electronic instrument equipment and composes for contemporary classical ensembles. He is equally prolific as a solo artist and collaborator, and has collaborated with Elliott Sharp, Zeena Parkins, Mika Vainio, Reinhold Friedl (Zeitkratzer) and many others. Franck Vigroux’s music consists of constructed tension, beats, electronic textures and a very personal approach to sound exploration. His uniqueness comes from his artistic approach that combines new media with performance art.
He collaborates with visual artists such as Antoine Schmitt and Kurt d’Haeseleer to design cross-disciplinary performances and audiovisual concerts. Vigroux’s recordings have been published on DAC records, Leaf, Cosmo Rhythmatic, Monotype, Radio France, Erotoox, Aesthetical and others.
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“The Rising Tide”
Tide is a natural phenomenon that occurs in coastal areas. It refers to the periodic movement of sea water caused by the tidal force of celestial bodies (mainly the moon and the sun). It is customary to refer to the vertical rise and fall of the sea surface as tides, while the horizontal flow of sea water is called tidal current. In order to indicate the time of tide, human ancestors called the high tide that occurred in the morning a tide and the high tide that occurred in the evening. This is where the tide gets its name.
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Rising Tide, a new media audio-visual scene designed to reference the tidal phenomenon, advances layer by layer over time, creating a multi-dimensional experience like a tidal wave. Like a romance, long and romantic.
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Voision Xi
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He first appeared on the jazz stage in 2015, singing sincerely and actively exploring. Through many band/co-creation and personal projects, he gradually formed his own original color and became a singer, composer and producer trusted by his partners. , has also witnessed and participated in the development of jazz and larger-scale independent music in China in the past ten years.
In 2018, she launched her first studio EP “DEBUT” under the name of Little Happiness Group, releasing her iconic first chapter. In 2022, she put her wider interests and emotions, inspiration and spirit into her first original full-length album “Lost for Words”, and was shortlisted for the “Best Newcomer of the Year” at the Singapore Freshmusic Awards. Award” and received an invitation from Japan’s DiskUnion label Think! Records to produce a Japanese version of CD. In love with both pure and moving acoustic sounds and unrestricted novel sounds, Xi Chenchen’s sound experiment series “Loops in Her Way” has been continuously created since 2020, bringing imaginative sound exploration.
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李鑫（small）
Music producer/guitarist, he started to be exposed to contemporary music when he was a teenager. He started learning guitar in 1999 and showed great enthusiasm for it. In 2009, he came into contact with music production and officially transitioned from a guitarist to a musician with multiple identities, and began to be active in the field of sound art. Using Effects to render guitar playing and electronic music as a medium, he began to explore the art of sound, and has long been committed to thinking and experimenting with future music.
In 2017, he officially started an independent music and art project under the code name “liiii”. Within three years, he has independently published nearly 50 works and performed nearly 200 improvisational atmosphere performances, spanning and reshaping a variety of music styles, from rock music to electronic music. As well as world music, and even contemporary drama are also involved.Gradually transition from the publicity of rock music to more focused self-exploration, breaking the formal boundaries of music, thus paying more attention to the expression of ritual and atmosphere in performances.
concept, vision
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Interpretation (pill)
Shanghai independent audiovisual team, artistic and creative label. Live creativity evolves from underground parties to theater stages to the great outdoors. The style is sometimes cute and funny, sometimes cold and serious, and any atmosphere is unpredictable. Strive to interpret all current artistic languages to explore audio-visual scenes from different dimensions.
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