audio-visual
26.06.2025
Audio–Visual Performance Extense with Nicolas Souchal, Théatre Astrée, Lyon
Nicolas Souchal (augmented trumpet) and Diemo Schwarz‘s (computer music design, visuals) art–science research studies the correspondences between the sound and visual worlds, as well as the sharing of control between humans and machines. To do this, a computer exploits the sounds of the trumpet in two ways. On the one hand, it applies live processing to these sounds, on the other hand, it analyzes them and draws from them the way in which the video navigates in a corpus of images of paintings by Elisabeth Saint-Jalmes. The public is invited to construct their own sensitive experience of the device and to interpret the correspondences between images and sounds.
Nicolas Souchal‘s inventive trumpet playing is in this project doubly extended by audio transformation and video generation, thanks to the cocavs project from Diemo Schwarz‘s art–science residency at Iméra – Institut d’études avancées d’Aix-Marseille Université.
Seminar and Audio–Visual Performance Augmentation Audio–Visuelle de la Trompette : Entre contrôle et imprévisibilité dans une collaboration recherche-création sur le long terme with Nicolas Souchal, Ircam, Paris
Nicolas Souchal (augmented trumpet) and Diemo Schwarz‘s (computer music design, visuals) art–science research studies the correspondences between the sound and visual worlds, as well as the sharing of control between humans and machines. To do this, a computer exploits the sounds of the trumpet in two ways. On the one hand, it applies live processing to these sounds, on the other hand, it analyzes them and draws from them the way in which the video navigates in a corpus of images of paintings by Elisabeth Saint-Jalmes. The public is invited to construct their own sensitive experience of the device and to interpret the correspondences between images and sounds.
Nicolas Souchal‘s inventive trumpet playing is in this project doubly extended by audio transformation and video generation, thanks to #mubu and the #cocavs project from Diemo Schwarz‘s art–science residency at Iméra – Institut d’études avancées d’Aix-Marseille Université. https://forum.ircam.fr/projects/detail/mubu/ https://www.imera.fr/chercheur/schwarz-diemo/
31.01.2025
Audio–Visual Performance Extense with Nicolas Souchal, Anis Gras, Arcueil
Nicolas Souchal (augmented trumpet) and Diemo Schwarz‘s (computer music design, visuals) art–science research studies the correspondences between the sound and visual worlds, as well as the sharing of control between humans and machines. To do this, a computer exploits the sounds of the trumpet in two ways. On the one hand, it applies live processing to these sounds, on the other hand, it analyzes them and draws from them the way in which the video navigates in a corpus of images of paintings by Elisabeth Saint-Jalmes. The public is invited to construct their own sensitive experience of the device and to interpret the correspondences between images and sounds.
Nicolas Souchal‘s inventive trumpet playing is in this project doubly extended by audio transformation and video generation, thanks to the cocavs project from Diemo Schwarz‘s art–science residency at Iméra – Institut d’études avancées d’Aix-Marseille Université.
14.06.2024
Augmented trumpet Extense with Nicolas Souchal, Theatre Aleph, Ivry-sur-Seine
Concert Extense for augmented trumpet and visuals with Nicolas Souchal (trumpet), Diemo Schwarz (computer music design, visuals).
Nicolas Souchal‘s inventive trumpet playing doubly is in this project extended by audio transformation and video generation, thanks to #mubu and the #cocavs project from Diemo Schwarz‘s art–science residency at Iméra – Institut d’études avancées d’Aix-Marseille Université. https://forum.ircam.fr/projects/detail/mubu/ https://www.imera.fr/chercheur/schwarz-diemo/
01.06.2024
Solo Absence for audio–visual concatenative synthesis, La maison en bois, Abbéville-la-rivière
15ème promenade
4 solos et 4 plats
- Maki Watanabe danse Butô
- Thierry Mercier guitare Musiques novatrices d’aujourd’hui Du XXeme au XXI ème
- Diemo Schwarz Performance images et sons “Absence” solo for audio–visual concatenative synthesis
- Gaël Mevel violoncelle et voix autour d’un poème de Saint John Perse
Sabine Hérondelle Création culinaire
La maison en bois, 6 rue beauregard, 91150 Abbeville la rivière, 06 30 36 91 45
http://www.gaelmevel.com
15.03.2024
Creation of Extense with Nicolas Souchal, Anis Gras, Arcueil
First showing of project Extense for augmented trumpet and visuals with Nicolas Souchal (trumpet), Diemo Schwarz (computer music design, visuals).
Nicolas Souchal‘s inventive trumpet playing doubly is in this project extended by audio transformation and video generation, thanks to #mubu and the #cocavs project from Diemo Schwarz‘s art–science residency at Iméra – Institut d’études avancées d’Aix-Marseille Université. https://forum.ircam.fr/projects/detail/mubu/ https://www.imera.fr/chercheur/schwarz-diemo/
03.06.2023
Audio–Visual Piece Absence, NIME, Mexico City
Solo audio–visual piece Absence played at the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), Mexico City.
Absence evokes several notions of absence: Absence of light, absence of love, absence of humanity, when societies and all human artefacts will be destructured to gradually disappear within the materials and textures of the natural world, which, by themselves, will eventually dissolve back into primordial cosmic dust.
The piece starts with the images of crepuscular cities, the buildings mere shadows, before evolving towards images of cities in ruins, warning of impeding and very possible catastrophies for humankind, to which sounds are played that evoke emptiness and desolation. These elements gradually dissolve into the basic textures of natural materials of stone, sand, water, wood, with the sounds exploring different sensations of materiality through roughness and textures.
This path through different sentiments of absence is evoked in sound and images by a journey through intertwined corpora of sounds and images, linked by their cross-modal aesthetic properties of colour, texture, timbre, played via dynamic gestural control.
22.12.2022
Video: Performance for Audio–Visual Concatenative Synthesis & Violin, Planetarium of the Marseille Observatory
Video teaser of a performance for audio–visual concatenative synthesis and violin in the planetarium of the Marseille Observatory, 14th June 2022
Diemo Schwarz (electronics, visuals), Patricia Bosshard (Stroh violin)
Linked to the conference Écouter–voir: relations image–son dans la musique
IMéRA Arts, Sciences and Societies Fellowship Program, Aix-Marseille Université
Observatoire de Marseille, Association Andromède
Video by Roxane Gilly-Roux & Hugo Boireau
14.06.2022
Audio–Visual Concert with Patricia Bosshard at the Planetarium, Observatoire de Marseille
Patricia Bosshard, Diemo Schwarz
Écouter–voir: relations image–son dans la musique
conference/concert
mardi 14.06.2022 14:30–18:00
Institut d’études avancées IMéRA, Aix-Marseille Université
2 place Leverrier, 13004 Marseille
https://imera.univ-amu.fr/fr/ecouter-voir-relations-image-son-musique