Creative residency (continuation of work in progress and extension for the concert) and audio and video recording.
Alet deploys low-tech and high-tech equipment to explore the unusual sounds of the Boha bagpipes.
Romain Colautti and Florent Colautti combine their two approaches, moving back and forth between tradition and new creative forms, to create a sonic and creative crossbreeding that (re)visits the Boha bagpipe.
The extensions created by the musicians offer a hybrid anatomy between organic and mechanical, revealing a mutation of this instrument and its characteristics. By preserving the bagpipe's origin and originality, they transform the instrument and its musical spectrum into a singular experience.
Alet opens up a new musical space where instruments are approached as wave generators, offering music that is both melodic and harmonic, wavering from rhythmic beats to moving, vibrating flows.
While retaining the image of the "ball", they move away from traditional playing and folk repertoire to create an inner dance, a dance of the spirit, which buries the listener in a bath of textures and materials that invoke encounters with so-called electronic, rock and noise music.
Production
Hart Brut
Coproduction
CERC ; La Pratique ; le Logelloù ; Le Silo ; Studio Corps Electriques
Florent Colautti
Composer and sound artist
For several years, Florent Colautti has been developing practices that blend music and digital art. His creations are part of an approach in which the "physical" is hybridized with digital and electronic protocols. His research has led him to explore contemporary lutherie and the construction of special instruments. Rather like Luigi Russolo's "Intonarumori", he has imagined various instrumental entities that have been grafted, augmented, with an electronic prosthesis. A kind of automaton, these instruments offer a hybrid anatomy between the organic and the mechanical, nuanced by eclectic, original and striking sound materials. The alliance of acoustics and electronics energizes a sonic crossbreeding, a to-and-fro between tradition and new creative forms. In this way, he manifests a mutation of the instrument and its properties, the paradox between computer writing and human gesture.
Romain Colautti
Sound artist
Romain Colautti has a "classical" conservatory background, with percussion training in his early years, followed by bass guitar.
At the same time, he discovered "traditional" music through the bagpipes of the Landes de Gascogne, and went on to train in "classical" and "jazz" double bass. A multi-instrumentalist with a number of diploma courses under his belt, he has mastered the classical, contemporary, rock and experimental repertoires. He also studied sound engineering and traditional lutherie. With over 20 years' experience in live performance and record production, he travels through styles and practices, eager to discover and experience sound.
Romain Colautti
Florent Colautti
composition, musician