TOTEM & TABOU

<p dir="ltr"> With this fund-raising, we offer you a chance to participate in the launch of a new special album that takes the form of an installation/application: </p> <p dir="ltr">  </p> <p dir="ltr">  </p> <p dir="ltr">  </p> <p dir="ltr"> <img alt="Album_anglais-1432127742" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/200460/album_anglais-1432127742.png"></p> <p dir="ltr">  </p> <p dir="ltr"> <img></p> <p dir="ltr"> The album is a 70 minute journey built around a main musical theme, inspired by balearic holidays then developed, nourished, enhanced in the Ivry-sur-Seine workshop-studio.</p> <p dir="ltr">  </p> <p dir="ltr">  </p> <p dir="ltr"> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="500" src="//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?src=https%3A%2F%2Fw.soundcloud.com%2Fplayer%2F%3Fvisual%3Dtrue%26url%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fapi.soundcloud.com%252Ftracks%252F206677910%26show_artwork%3Dtrue&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fwelcome-to-masomenos%2Ftotemtabou-teaser&amp;image=http%3A%2F%2Fi1.sndcdn.com%2Fartworks-000117651779-irvkfu-t500x500.jpg&amp;key=ff2702755d9749cda571c6d6c2f3eb46&amp;type=text%2Fhtml&amp;schema=soundcloud" width="500"></iframe></p> <p dir="ltr">  </p> <p dir="ltr">  </p> <p dir="ltr"> <img alt="Cd-1432670915" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/203032/cd-1432670915.jpg"></p> <p dir="ltr">  </p> <p dir="ltr"> <img alt="11043010_10153053057911508_1235983877586082998_n-1432130564" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/200496/11043010_10153053057911508_1235983877586082998_n-1432130564.jpg"></p> <p dir="ltr">  </p> <p dir="ltr"> As always, music and image have followed their own road separately to finally meet and encapsulate themselves in a global project just like LIVE MIX in 2008, THIRD EYE in 2009, BALLOONS in 2010 or TECHNOCOLOR in 2011. </p> <p dir="ltr">  </p> <p dir="ltr">  </p> <p dir="ltr"> <img alt="Pochettes-1432116457" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/200330/pochettes-1432116457.jpg"></p> <p dir="ltr">  </p> <p dir="ltr"> <img height="243px;" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/xAIAlm-Sl6BWrlgyi2fy_A6PBSHFL2z18RB_FXyTWR3ziXvuP7_ndYFxV7Cm7U4Q1PLDCRDoFW-OumVk3EuQfX-WAv3UhkJ-7DWYNvBwzXPG8eSW2F9xWw909bXmEjhc05THTIQ" width="624px;"></p> <p dir="ltr">  </p> <p dir="ltr">  </p> <p dir="ltr"> For many years though, we have been interested in <strong>the interaction between music and image or more precisely light. </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">  </p> <p dir="ltr"> In this perspective, we especially created the TOFIDI audiovisual project, a cosmic snake and light synthesizer at the same time, but we also collaborated with Kate Simko to make people see the music played by the London Electronic Orchestra at the Britten Theatre. </p> <p>  </p> <p dir="ltr"> Today, with <strong>TOTEM&amp;TABOO</strong>, the project is multidisciplinary: it takes its source in music, architecture, graphic design and computer programming. </p> <p dir="ltr">  </p> <p dir="ltr">  </p> <p dir="ltr">  </p> <p dir="ltr"> <img alt="Titre_hut-1432131023" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/200500/titre_hut-1432131023.png"></p> <p dir="ltr"> <img></p> <p dir="ltr">  </p> <p dir="ltr"> It is with this hypnotizing and organic rhythm that we designed and built <strong>THE HUT</strong> in collaboration with Sebastien Pascot.</p> <p dir="ltr">  </p> <p dir="ltr"> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="304" src="//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?src=https%3A%2F%2Fplayer.vimeo.com%2Fvideo%2F116249766&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fvimeo.com%2F116249766&amp;image=http%3A%2F%2Fi.vimeocdn.com%2Fvideo%2F502538262_1280.jpg&amp;key=ff2702755d9749cda571c6d6c2f3eb46&amp;type=text%2Fhtml&amp;schema=vimeo" width="540"></iframe></p> <p dir="ltr">  </p> <p dir="ltr">  </p> <p dir="ltr"> <img alt="Hutte_en_construction-1432117881" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/200353/hutte_en_construction-1432117881.jpg"></p> <p dir="ltr">  </p> <p dir="ltr"> <img alt="Or-1432120574" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/200388/OR-1432120574.jpg"></p> <p dir="ltr"> <img alt="Substandardfullsizerender-1432836518" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/203893/SubstandardFullSizeRender-1432836518.jpg"></p> <p dir="ltr">  </p> <p dir="ltr"> A listening cabin and machine to see the music, <strong>the Hut</strong> is a 6.5 meters high pentagon meant to welcome the visual musical score of the album. This golden vessel is watched by five masks, <strong>BALT, OHAOO, WHAT DO YOU MEAN, SCUBA and LA CHOUETTE</strong>, each are at the same time hosts, performers, synthesizers and masters of ceremony. Inside, they play the album with lights, each one putting a melody or a rhythm in relief, sometimes solo, sometimes together. </p> <p dir="ltr"> Outside, they welcome the visitors and protect the cabin, like colored mirrors. </p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p dir="ltr"> <img alt="Masques-1432119982" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/200378/MASQUES-1432119982.jpg"></p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p> <img></p> <p> <img alt="Titre_application-1432131178" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/200501/titre_APPLICATION-1432131178.png"></p> <p> <img></p> <p>  </p> <p> In harmony with the hut, the physical listening structure of the album, we have developed <strong>AN APPLICATION</strong> that will allow to experience the album in a virtual way. </p> <p> You enter the game inside of The Hut as a pedestrian. The masks starts playing with the music their light partition. As you turn around you can view The Hut as if you were inside the real one. Point the direction you wish to take, keep you finger on the right side of the screen to move forward - on the left to move backward, find one of the 5 exits start flying, exploring the whole game set, disappear in space and… begin all over again.</p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="Img_0105-1434740020" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/211887/IMG_0105-1434740020.PNG"></p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="Img_0100_2-1434740218" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/211889/IMG_0100_2-1434740218.PNG"></p> <p> <img alt="Img_0091-1434809899" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/212020/IMG_0091-1434809899.PNG"></p> <p> <img alt="Img_0090-1434740264" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/211891/IMG_0090-1434740264.PNG"></p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p dir="ltr"> <strong>The application used in the hut </strong>will be like a window on another world, invisible to the eye.</p> <p dir="ltr">  </p> <p dir="ltr"> New technologies allow to explore a new space, jonction of the physical experience (the hut) and the virtual experience (the application) of the TOTEM&amp;TABOO project. </p> <p dir="ltr">  </p> <p>  </p> <p dir="ltr"> <img alt="Hutte_appli-1432199727" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/200880/hutte_appli-1432199727.jpg"></p> <p>  </p> <p> Thanks to augmented reality, the hut's ceiling turns into a new center of visual attraction. Around the periscope totem, a sixth mask will enter the scene, <strong>DOSMILDOCE</strong>, the same that discretely stands on the hut's roof. It is the soul of the totem. The visitor has just to point the periscope totem's eye via the application so that the <strong>DOSMILDOCE</strong>'s kaleidoscopic hologram comes into life and moves on the screen.This moving and volatile picture contrasts with the impressive structure made with more than one ton of wood, and shows a unique and playful performance of what is possible to do with this technology. </p> <p>  </p> <p> <strong>The application itself</strong>, designed for smartphones and tablets, will allow you to watch the album whilst listening to it. As if you were standing in the middle of the hut, you will be able to watch each mask by the window that is the screen, through 360°. The musical scores played by the masks will be transcribed in 3D in the application. If you point the ceiling, the kaleidoscopic hologram of <strong>DOSMILDOCE</strong> will appear.</p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="Dosmioldoce3040-pluspetit-1432836794" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/203895/dosmioldoce3040-PLUSPETIT-1432836794.gif"></p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="Img_0075-1434740194" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/211888/IMG_0075-1434740194.PNG"></p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p>