BELL ORCHESTRE SOUND HOUSE

current productions
Written By Lesya Nakoneczny

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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.

  • International Premiere at UnfoldX Festival
    Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul, Korea
    November 7–30 2024

    • 20 000 visitors during 3 week residency

    • voted among visitors’ top 3 favorite works

    World Premiere at Galerie SAT
    Société des arts technologiques, Montréal, Canada
    June 7–July 27 2024



  • 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

  • productions (at) envisionmanagement.com

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. 

Testimonial

"Sound House is a breathtakingly intimate and deeply moving installation that transforms music from Bell Orchestre into a living, interactive experience— drawing visitors into a warmly lit sanctuary where sound and presence become beautifully intertwined.”

—Catherine Turp, Senior Director Creation, Moment Factory

Press

« Le visiteur se retrouve dans cet espace liminal entre l’expérience d’écoute à la maison, … et celle du concert ou de la performance en direct qui se vit en collectivité, dans un lieu donné. C’est une exposition et une installation où le public fait partie de la performance, en se déplaçant et en modifiant le son, mais tu peux aussi être passif et simplement écouter et observer ce qui se passe. »

—Philippe Renaud, Le Devoir

« Ni tout à fait une exposition ni une installation, la Sound House ... est une expérience musicale. On propose une autre façon d’écouter la musique, de la vivre, ici de manière sensorielle et kinesthésique puisqu’on se déplace à son gré dans l’espace en déplaçant les objets. »

—Philippe Renaud, Le Devoir

« Dans Sound House, nous sommes littéralement dans le lieu et nous le transformons de l’intérieur. ... La causalité, l’aspect magique de la réactivité entre nos gestes et la musique nous met dans une disposition attentive et viscérale. »

—Vincent Morisset, Fisheye Immersive

« La musique appelle à l’interaction. Qu’elle soit vieille comme le monde comme la danse ou qu’elle dépende de propositions explorant de nouveaux possibles liés à des dispositifs technologiques.»

—Vincent Morisset, Fisheye Immersive

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