Fri 22 - The Black Box

An audiovisual performance by the imaginative Canadian artist, Echo Chamber takes its inspiration from technologies that let us probe inside the body, such as ultrasound and acupuncture, generating a sound composition via resonance.

'For more than 15 years, the artist has created performances and installations in which sound meets images and objects with a choreographic tone. After studying composition at l’Université de Montréal, Messier began an experimental sound practice that integrated video, quickly developing performative audiovisual apparatuses that brought everyday objects and the sound potential of their various materials to the stage. Presented in some 50 counties, his productions have received several prizes and nominations.

An audiovisual performance in several tableaus, Echo Chamber takes its inspiration from technologies that let us probe inside the body, such as ultrasound and acupuncture, generating a sound composition via resonance. Creating a modular interface of three panels allowing multiple manipulations, he wields long needles as if they were notes from an instrument, piercing through an audio-reactive plate that sets off sound sequences. Carrier of an electric charge, the matter of the body itself is a vehicle, a vector. This is what the final sequence of Echo Chamber suggests: the link between the world and the self, between the outside and the inside – remanence emanating from the echo chamber.