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.

  • 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 Orchestre

    Musical Director, Sound Designer and Engineer Pietro Amato

    Creative, Technical and Set Developer
    Dan Freder

    Sound Designer and Engineer
    Alexander Thibault

    TouchDesigner Developer
    Owen Kirby

    Creative Technologist
    Renaud Vincent

    Creative Developer
    Maxime Damecour

    MaxMSP Consultant
    Zacharie Perreault-Samson

    Set Production
    Dan Freder, Caroline Robert, Vincent Morisset, Jamie Bekins, Olivier Morisset, Annie Jaimes

    Produced by
    Envision Management & Production

    Executive & Creative Producer
    Ryhna Thompson

    Creative Producer
    Patti Schmidt

    Production Manager
    Brian Neuman

    Visual 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
    Drums

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. 

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