BELL ORCHESTRE SOUND HOUSE

current productions

Sep 25

Written By Lesya Nakoneczny

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
Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul, Korea
November 7–30 2024
World Premiere
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.