BIONIC ORCHESTRA 2.0

In 2014, the Organic Orchestra company’s residency continues in the the Atelier Arts Sciences research framework by taking on a new form.
This year’s objective is to enhance the interactive glove which was created for ERZA’s concert, and to adapt it for industrialization.
In collaboration with the IDEAs Lab and ENSCI, the Atelier Arts Sciences enters a new phase of reflections concerning new features and functions of this interactive glove.
Bionic Orchestra 2.0 is a musical, visual and interactive project, blending beatbox and new technologies.
From Monday 20 through Thursday 23 January 2014, Ezra and his team were in residency at the Atelier Arts Sciences in a workshop with students at ENSCI, working on the adaptation of the interactive glove to stage.

Production Cie Organic Orchestra. Coproduction l’Atelier Arts Sciences, laboratoire de recherche commun à l’Hexagone Scène Nationale Arts Sciences – Meylan, au CEA Grenoble et à La Casemate Grenoble, L’Autre Canal, Nancy et MA Scène nationale – Pays de Montbéliard, ONYX – La Carrière.
 Avec le soutien financier du Conseil régional - Pays de la Loire, DRAC – Pays de la Loire, le DICRÉAM, le Conseil général de la Sarthe, la ville du Mans, le Fonds SCAN, le CNV, les KissBankers et la Banque Postale. Avec la participation du FabLab CCSTI – Grenoble et des étudiants de l’ENSCI – Grenoble.

Digital, electronic and video development coordinator : Thomas Pachoud

 - Developers : Martin Hermant, Ivan Huta, Cyril Laurier - 
Scientific adviser : Dominique David and Laurent Jouanet

 - Artistic adviser : Florence Loison - 
Glove makers : Jean Strazzeri, Laury Golliet - 
Scenographer : Maurice L’Ampoule
 - Video : Romain Tardy

 - Light designer : Bruno Teutsch

 - Graphic designer : Virginie Salvanez

Ezra, artistic director of the Organic Orchestra Company, is an active and recognized member of the international beatbox. He has performed all over the world and played solo in the most mythical places in France (Olympia, Cigale, Transmusicales...). Ezra develops his discipline with the ability to adapt and a stage ease that has led him to collaborate with world-renowned artists (Kid Koala, Bauchklang, Wax Tailor, One Self, Socalled...) and to go on a world tour with the singer Camille. Ezra has initiated and participated in multiple creations mixing music, video, dance and scenography such as the projects Bionic Orchestra, Five Fingers, or with the Fabrique Immatérielle and the Compagnie Hey!
In addition to the stage, he devotes as much energy to the development of his discipline by conducting workshops in schools, prisons, hospitals, conservatories as well as participating in university research and in the establishment of the network of beatboxers in France since 2005, which organizes great federative moments (such as the French championship). For 4 years now, Ezra has been working with the engineers of the Organic Orchestra Company on the principle of augmented beatbox, developing tools that transcend the voice and allow the control of sound, light and video from the stage.

Thomas Pachoud - Digital, electronic and video development coordinator
An engineer trained at IMAC, Thomas is a programmer and video manager for several theatre and dance companies (Cie Blanca Li, Cie Mabel Octobre, Australian Dance Theater...). Within the company Organic Orchestra, Thomas is the technical director and also develops video applications, gesture capture and light control for the shows.
www.creapach.fr

Martin Hermant - Developer
Martin is a computer and electronics engineer trained at the INPG Grenoble. He is co-founder of the digital art company Un des sens and works as a new technology technician on various creations, such as Interface (Un des sens - Augmented Dance), Bionic Orchestra 2.0, Tarentella (mobillis immobillis - Interactive Dress) Within the Organic Orchestra Company, Martin works on the Bionic Looper, as well as on the interpretation of data in gesture capture.

Ivan Huta - Developer of spatialization applications
Engineer trained at IMAC, Ivan is a web programmer.
Within the company Organic Orchestra, he develops tools for spatializing sound in an innovative approach that consists in controlling sound from the gestures of the artists.

Cyril Laurier - IT development coordinator of the Organic Orchestra Company
Doctor of the "Music Technology Group" (Barcelona Institute equivalent to IRCAM), Cyril is a researcher and developer in music technologies specialized in real time audio programming, music analysis and artificial intelligence.

Scientific advisor of the Ateliers Arts Sciences Dominique David
Electronic engineers Laurent Jouanet, Cyril Gobbo
Battery engineers Séverine Jouanneau et Nelly Martin

Glove makers Laury Golliet et Jean Strazzeri

And the students of the ENSCI Grenoble