Exomène & Percussa Audio Cubes

via Percussa

"How Exomène is using AudioCubes in his Performances and Studio

Exomène, a soundsmith and digital apothecary as he describes himself on his website, is been using the AudioCubes for a couple of years now. He’s using the AudioCubes in all his live performances as well as in his studio:

'I've been using Audiocubes in all my shows since I bought them but they proved to be very useful in the studio too where I only use them in sender/receiver mode. This configuration allows me to quickly test different melodies with the arpegiator or easily maintain one note leaving my hands free to make the sound evolve by modifying the parameters of the synth and effects. Actually, my first album 'The life and death of an unnoticed shadow' was recorded with Audiocubes as my main instrument.'

Exomène recently shared with us a cool video in which he is using the AudioCubes together with some of his other gear to perform live. Click on the image below to check out Exomène's video KinderGarten. [embed below]

In his current setup, he is using 3 AudioCubes with Propellerhead's Reason:

'I use 3 cubes with Propellerhead's Reason, 2 in sender/receiver mode to trigger an arpegiator which usually runs the main layer of my soundscape. The 3rd cube is in sensor mode. Depending on the track, it runs the arpegiator parameters and/or the main synth parameters and/or several other effects, usually a distortion, an equalizer, a phaser and a flanger. You can see them (the blue and pink lights at the right of the screen) in my live capture of "side by side'. [embed further below]

About Exomène

I am Exomène : a soundsmith and a digital apothecary. As a musician, I make cinematic soundscapes on albums and industrial music live. Speaking about live, I am into audiovisual performances like Side by Side, Digital Primitive or the Spoken Worms. As a digital artist, I am interested in the similarities between brain and processors with the synæsizer. I am also interested in vintage software æesthetic, glitch and databending.

More information about Exomène:
Website: http://www.exomene.com"

Kindergarten

Published on Aug 28, 2013 Dorianne Wotton

"Here is a video demo to appreciate Exomène (www.exomene.com) performing live.
And what a better playground for industrial music than playing in a factory!

Exomène's approach is very physical and far away from music studio.
Exomène always engages and interacts with its audience especially through the use of colorful and interactive performances controllers.
Then the crowd in itself is also a performance controller : the movements, the color of the clothes... everything is used to interact with sounds thanks to video capture.

This approach have its real significance when Exomène's performs in A/V projects such as "X-Peri-Mental".

X-Peri-Mental is a performance realised by the collective of artists 'le:d'
l:ed (l : Experiments in Digital) is a group of artists currently composed by the image slayer Dorianne Wotton and the soundsmith Exomène.
Collaborating since 2004 around the concept of 'æsthetic of desolation' their work extends to the areas of photo, music, video, digital arts and multimedia performances.
Their more recent works are 'The spoken worms' (audiovisual performance), 'Synæsizer' (digital art installation), "Glitch-O-matic" (digital art installation) and X-Peri-Mental (audiovisual live act).
X-Peri-Mental is meant to be a live act, so l:ed always engages and interacts with its audience especially through video capture.
The crowd directly shape our performance because we choose our sounds and images according to its reaction. That is why we face the audience and we use colorful and interactive performances controllers."


"Side by side": "Soirée I-R-L" (Paris, 18/01/14) Extrait from Dorianne Wotton on Vimeo.

"EXOMENE / DORIANNE WOTTON / MARIE BARTHELEMY / ALEXIS OCHIN : 'Side by side'

'Performance corporelle avec images et musique en direct et interactive. VJing'

Le collectif L:ED s'est associé aux danseurs Marie Barthélémy et Alexis Ochin pour une performance live... et surtout totalement inattendue. A commencer pour ses interprètes.
Dans le cadre dela soirée I-R-L, Exomène, Dorianne Wotton , Marie Barthélémy et Alexis Ochin ont interprété la performance 'Side by side'.
Une performance totalement improvisée, puisqu'il s'agissait concrètement de la première rencontre de deux duos: Exomène et Dorianne pour la partie audio et Vidéo; Alexis Ochin et Marie Barthélémy pour la partie "danse et expression corporelle". Deux duos, la fusion du digital et du corporel.
Cette performance mêle le réel et l’imaginaire par la mise en relation de deux performers et de leur image grâce à une captation live de la performance projetée sur l’espace où ils évoluent. Dorianne assure un mix vidéo en live, au rythme de la musique (toujours en live) d'Exomène .
Une expérience singulière donc, où nous avons laissé libre cours à notre créativité pour titiller votre imaginaire.

Dorianne Wotton: www.dorianne-wotton.com
Exomène: www.exomene.com
L:ED: http://www.l-experiments-digital.com/"