Featuring
Franck Vigroux & Antoine Schmitt
Bernd Buerklin
Franck Vigroux and Antoine Schmidt’s Cascades is an audiovisual concert inspired by the symbol of waterfalls, here represented by streams of pixels whose movements are shifting like liquid and fire. Musically, they take the same inspiration and actively improvise with electronics to connect the ever-changing ecology of sensation to the immutability of change itself. A continuum of mediums to spring, trickle, and wash over the audience. Working together for more than ten years, the artists will create a live audio-visual synesthesia that is both contemplative and physically invigorating.
Franck Vigroux has worked has worked with musicians such as Mika Vainio, Elliott Sharp and Reinhold Friedl and composers like Christian Zanesi, Toeplitz, and Ulrich Krieger. He specializes in the tectonic: beats that come from the earth, build land, and reshape territories.
Antoine Schmitt is dedicated to kinetic art that uses software as the primary material of reshaping physical experience. He makes objects, installations and situations to address the experience of the process of change. Projects with Delphine Doukhan, Hortense Gauthier, and Atau Tanaka regard metaphysical science-fiction through human nature.
The sirenlike performativity of Bernd Buerklin will accordion and elsewise onto the stage for a solo experience unlike anything in Southern California. His charms connecting objects to musicality through sensitivity to performing conditions make his rare stage appearances truly affecting affairs. Improvisation at its most heated and full of heart.