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Chloe

Friday 11.10. 22:00  - Ferdinandeum

Chloe pres. SloMo A/V

 

SloMo A/V SloMo A/V is the meeting of DJ and producer Chloé Thévenin, who works in the studio to build soundscapes (as four albums and many soundtracks can testify), Dune Lunel, Paris-based art director, who has worked in the cultural field for over twenty years (her studio has produced many visual identities, with dynamic links between image and text), and Adrien Godin, a young artist from ECV Digital in Paris (Visual Communication school) who works as an art director and graphic designer. Together, they have invented a teeming, epic entity. SloMo A/V is not strictly speaking Chloé's ambient project, but an experience that could be described as immersive. Here, sounds generate images, or perhaps it's the other way around: hard to tell in this enigmatic, hypnotic dialogue. Each SloMo A/V performance unfolds in the same way: Chloé builds the sounds live while something comes to life on the screen, in the way the image is manipulated, the way it slows down, distorting the sound, drawing it out or spurring it on. It’s as if you were glimpsing images of the earth (vegetation, mountains, riverbeds) but in the very same second, something else happens: the image is reprocessed, decomposed, remixed, recorded, taking on a completely different texture. Its range accompanies the repetitions of the music in all its conductions and expanses, and you quickly realise that it’s not really about recognizing: instead of it being a question of identifying what has been lost, it becomes a proposal to imagine something else, to enter wide-eyed into another world of sensations, as it’s invented before our eyes from the belly of the machine. Here, the mountain becomes a synapse, corporeal traces metamorphose into new sensory connections, into unknown cells. SloMo A/V is always on the brink of hypnosis. The performance challenges us to let machines generate new sounds and forms, redesigning something possible from what was once living, biological or mineral. In its great plasticity, the SloMo A/V performance is sensitive to fraction, to the most imperceptible movement, to the revolutions that create us. Musically speaking, it follows the same extraordinary journey: from a genre that we think we know for its reflective, soothing qualities (ambient and its great meditative calm, as invented by Brian Eno in the 70s) but which, in Chloé's hands, gradually changes into a dreamlike sound, but one which is also more industrial, troubled and concerned by the world. It is difficult not to hear and feel a performance that recalls our earth and bears the weight of its dispossession. Perhaps all SloMo A/V is offering us is an archaeology of the future. So it would be reductive to speak of SloMo A/V as a simply horizontal project exploring the other facet of Chloe's music, a sort of illustrated concert, when it’s actually a symbiotic project, generated by the meeting of three minds, three sensibilities that document our era (where irresponsible industrialisation and cerebral imagery are mixed). Its hope will undoubtedly be sought in what we miss the most. This project finds its full meaning in live performance, it wouldn’t be complete without the reception of the public, on whom it works to act in an unconscious way, reaching other images of ourselves. Since 2015, SloMo A/V has been performed at the Centre Pompidou, the Philharmonie de Paris, the TAP in Poitiers, the Sonar Festival, the Lieu Unique in Nantes, and the Southbank Centre in London.

 

 

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