BELL ORCHESTRE SOUND HOUSE
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Visitors wander through an illusory, abstracted home brought to life by picking and placing an array of domestic and sentimental artefacts around the room. The Sound House transforms through the actions of participants, as they set off sequences and climb into the mix, co-composing in real-time their own spatialized musical score pulled from the DNA of the original recording. Melodies, moods and views are triggered: the weather changes, seasons shift and time and place slide by outside its windows.
Evocative of the country chalet where House Music was recorded, with band members living together over several weeks, the installation captures an abstracted in-situ rendering of this domestic space, while also invoking the affective, communal creative feeling—what the band calls the “social ecosystem,” that formed during this time. The experiential design, with its collective, participatory essence celebrates spontaneous and accidental, collaborative and democratic responses—recombinant and always unique.
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Société des arts technologiques, Montréal, Canada
Exhibition | June 7–July 27 2024
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Director
Vincent Morisset (AATOAA)
Art Director, Set Designer and Photographer
Caroline Robert (AATOAA)Music
Bell OrchestreMusical Director, Sound Designer and Engineer Pietro Amato
Creative, Technical and Set Developer
Dan FrederSound Designer and Engineer
Alexander ThibaultTouchDesigner Developer
Owen KirbyCreative Technologist
Renaud VincentCreative Developer
Maxime DamecourMaxMSP Consultant
Zacharie Perreault-Samson
Set Production
Dan Freder, Caroline Robert, Vincent Morisset, Jamie Bekins, Olivier Morisset, Annie Jaimes
Produced by
Envision Management & ProductionExecutive & Creative Producer
Ryhna ThompsonCreative Producer
Patti SchmidtProduction Manager
Brian NeumanVisual Communications
anastasia statsenko
Based on the album House Music (2021) released by Envision Records and Erased Tapes.
Bell Orchestre is:
Pietro Amato
French horn, keyboards, electronics
Michael Feuerstack
Pedal steel guitar, keyboards, vocals
Kaveh Nabatian
Trumpet, gongoma, keyboards, vocals
Sarah Neufeld
Violin, vocals
Richard Reed Parry
Bass, vocals
Stefan Schneider
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Step into an imaginary house made of music and memory. The Bell Orchestre Sound House is a multi-participant, interactive audiovisual installation that summons the sounds of the band’s 2021 album, House Music, launching the music of Bell Orchestre into another dimension.