THE EXPLORATORIUM

The adventure outside recognition and reassuring.

"When an object can tell a story, it becomes a musical instrument"

One of our enjoyment is to create, to transform, to combine, to research, and to realize instruments to make music. Actual technology gives us many possibilities to do. For example make audible, sound inaudible with amplification. Mix acoustic with electronic. Create different technique than playing common one. Combine different kind of materials, shapes, and playing techniques. This, to discover unexpected sounds because we are convince that with different technique and instrument we produce different music. "The culture of the differences."

 

All objects around us are a potential of musical instrument. From a simple stone to a complex digital recording studio. Everything is exploitable to produce music. A musical instrument is an object producing music with the help of a musician. When we decompose the musical instrument function we have 4 following characteristics: Material -> Shape -> Action -> Sound. Everything is possible, just find the means.

 

The Exploratorium is the laboratory who discovers different and extended instrument and instrumental techniques.

 

We created Plainte chantée d'un canard expressioniste with a dry sponge playing on pane of glass. [see 6 ssssssX +2 eX].

We created Parasites électriques et turbulants dans un orage magnétique with radio waves. [see 6 ssssssX +2 eX].

We created Paysage Nuptial......le Grand Solitaire with a special technique on trombone without mouthpiece. [see 6 ssssssX +2 eX and for more examples].

We created LA COMMEDIA DEL SUONO with a lot of different instruments like the PVC SAX, timpani played with wool cover and hard sticks, a washing machine plate, a car door, a collection of tuned pans, a collection of tuned wood boards, an architect lamp, a contrabass rubber, the Tubalus, the 9-tone electric guitar, particular trumpet technique, etc, etc...

We created DÏNGX with special playing techniques applied to the Jean Weinfeld's Fonics: 3 string sculptures.

We create IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO GIVE A TITLE TO THIS PHENOMENON BECAUSE THE UNUNDERSTANDABLE BEYOND THE EXTREMES EDGES OF SPACE AND TIME HAS NO NAME mixing a classical guitar with too slow bow technique with a wood stick.

We create LES EXPLORATIONS ST ETHIQUES with a transformed electric guitar.

We created CONCERT BOUFFE music with chairs, CAGE'S MUSIC music with bird cage

etc, etc...

We created the LUDUS MUSICAE TEMPORARIUM music with first a simple architect lamp who evolved to a complex musical object assembling different instruments and techniques of playing at the same time with 2 LAMPLAYERS 5000 YEARS AFTER.

We use the sampler to create impossible gestures like in Ono joue avec son ballon music with balloon, rip up paper and PVC bass drum (the head of Ono), or in Strange Thing in the Kitchen with different kitchen tools, fireworks, slamed door, or in Metal one meter square metal plate to generate with different techniques of playing different sounds at a same time, etc... [see strange night with Mr. Shadow Sky].

We work extended acoustic techniques with digital devices.

the most sophisticated object ever musicalized

"I feel a very strong time presence into your music, some kind of consciousness or memory bringing back feelings linked to childhood : the discovery of the real world, the infinitely small and the infinitely large, the feeling of an inner time, of subterranean times." Pascalina Pica, Intervista, Milano.

Exploratorium's Lab4 . GO

Giant string puppets musical instruments

DINGX [Fonics]

6 SSSSSSeX ± 2 eX [objects]

ARCO-GUITAR [classical guitar]

PVC-SAX [new and cheap musical instrument]

LUDUS MUSICAE DELIRIUM [the beginning of lamp's music]

LES EXPLORATIONS ST ETHIQUES [9-tone electric guitar music]

The Laboratory `¤Ðøð°·±¬µ´->

THE MOST SOPHISTICATED MUSIC WITH COMMON OBJECT

 2 LAMPLAYERS 5000 YEARS AFTER [the summit of lamp's music]

ONO LULU filharmonia [combining all discoveries]

Les Arts de l'Etranges GO

the exploitation of the elementary rhythm of matter GO

Le Centre de la Bombe mapping page GO