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Dropper01

source: youtube

Dropper01 interprète Bassines, périphérique et chasse gardée.
(Dropper01 plays Basins, ring road and private hunting ground)

Eight percussion instruments — a cymbal, a timpani, a lithophone, a piece of wood, a red rubber band, a tagine cooking vessel, three marimba blades and eight flower pots are laid out in a circle and hanging in semi-darkness. Attached to the ceiling right above them, a network of cables and pipes is connected to a machine filled with water and composed of 24 drippers. Controlled by a computer playing a digital sheet music (Midi file, read by the software Max/MSP), the machine causes the water to drip on the percussion items hanging just below. The water drops fall as dictated by the music score, creating a real musical composition for water drops. The acoustic sounds produced by the percussion tools are amplified and broadcast through four loud speakers. There is no sound processing, or playing of recorded music, but only the sound of the impact of the drops. The water gradually fills up buckets as the music plays, and for sure, at some point, the buckets will have to be emptied.
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source: lesabattoirs
1970. Limousin. Enfance rurale et heureuse. Je conduis les tracteurs, observe les oiseaux, escalade les vieux murs, écoute la radio, démonte le piano et joue de la batterie. 1990, diplôme de l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure Louis Lumière – Vaugirard, section photographie. Le besoin d’un rapport physique à la matière, à l’espace et au mouvement me pousse aussi à travailler la pierre, l’architecture et la danse contemporaine. 1994, CAP de tailleur de pierre à Avignon, sculpture et taille de pierre pour les monuments historiques. 1998 post diplôme d’architecture en terre (CRATerre – Ecole d’Architecture de Grenoble). 2001 à 2003, résidence au Fresnoy, studio national des arts contemporains. Depuis 2004, je “vis et travaille” à Toulouse.