Production of Opéra de Lyon . TNP Villeurbanne - France
duration : 40 mn

choreographer : Pierre Droulers
music : eRikm
lights : Simon Siegmann
assistant : Marielle Morales
set designer : Pierre Droulers et Simon Siegmann
performers :Pierre Advokatoff, Fernando Carrion Caballero, Maité Cebrian Abad, Louis-Clément Da Costa, Peggy Grelat Dupont, Yang Jiang, Caelyn Knight, Jérôme Piatka

music score : eRikm
film action : Gaelle Rouart & Etienne Caire
Centre Pompidou Paris . France
tour in EU & UK

HyperScope is a new project from Levox - squeezing fresh filmic juice from all those discarded cinematic lemons. Expertly exploiting elaborate optical techniques and sharp, encyclopedic musical juxtapositions, both filmmakers and musician playfully corral the whole gamut of dramatic cinema’s legacy ; it’s stereotypes, its sentimental pronouncements, its fatal dénouements ; reconstituted and reworked by hand, coloured, cropped, re-shot and re-printed ; soundtracks layered, slowed, sped up and reformed.

Gaelle Rouard and Etienne Caire extract HyperScope’s imagery from what seems like hundreds of different films - overlaid, combined and contrasted in a rainbow of new meanings and impossible scenarios, and with the unsettling feel of daylight shadows or midnight bird-song. In a flow of colours and dramatic intrigue the unknown sits next to the known, and perhaps draws some strange new meaning from it.

Meanwhile eriKm brings his patent-pending, made-in -France broken-punk take on Musique Concrète, derived from an approach to turntables that seems just, you know : beyond. As with the filmmakers, the sound is culled and ripped from film soundtracks ; reworked, and layered into half-rhythms of inchoate screams and slammed car doors marking out time. In the end, its this new soundtrack that grips the rudder while light and chemical swirl about in an organic, polymorphing maelstrom.

All in all, a dizzying and intense experience, full of compressed narratives and real drama.

Festival d’Avignon - France
duration : 1h00

choreographer : mathilde monnier
assistant : stéphane bouquet
music : erikm
performers : jérôme andrieu . trisha bauman . davy brun
benoît caussé . yoann demichelis . herman diephuis
erikm . julien gallée-ferré . natacha kouznetsova
micha lescot . i-fang lin . joel luecht . ayelen parolin
lights : eric wurtz
set designer : annie tolleter

Densités festival Fresnes en Watt - France
duration : 25 mn

lyrics : christophe fiat
musics : erikm & c. fiat

Theatre Gennevilliers - France
duration : 1h00

director and set designer : François-Michel Pesenti
assistant : jim vivien
audio creation : olivier renouf
guest appearance : erikm or bob ostertag or bobby moo or eric houzelot or dalila khatir
Actors :
pascal farré . eric feldmann . marianne houspie . anne naudon . pierre palmi . yohei okuda . marie thomas
technical direction : eric hennaut
Photo © Simon Friedemann

Centre Pompidou Paris - France
duration : 52 mn

French film directed by René Clair in 1923
music score : erikm

Opéra de Lyon - France
duration : 32 mn

choreographer : mathilde monnier
music : erikm
performers :
les danseurs du ballet de l’opéra de lyon
choregraphic collaborator : Herman diephuis
video : karim zeriahen
set designer : annie tolleter
lights : eric wurtz
costumes : dominique fabrègue

Beaubourg ircam Agora festival Paris - France
duration : 55’ mn

narrator : jean-luc nancy (philosophe)
choreographer : mathilde monnier
music : erikm
performers : mathilde monnier . dimitri chamblas . erikm . jean-luc nancy . seydou boro . laurent pichaud
props : annie tolleter
light design : eric wurtz