Section Amour : Morceaux choisis

Extraits musicaux : - Les sauces pour frites belges aux Halles de Schaerbeek, 2004 : Samourai.mp3 - Page d'agneau du Consortium, 2005 : Lambsbook.mp3 - La soupe de tortue de la Fondation Cartier, 2005 : Soupedetortue.mp3 --- SECTION AMOUR History Section Amour is the spontaneous and official emergence of Evenement! All Stars, the formerly informal union of musical forces gathered around the Mille Milliards/Active Suspension/Clapping Music/Evenement! labels in Paris. The Evenement All Stars! Collective was never properly elaborated, but was born out of a common desire to propose collective actions whenever possible: this happened many times in the last four years, but was never done with a proper agenda. This all changed in January 2004, when several artists were invited to perform at Vooruit, in Gent, Belgium, for the 3 x 8 hour "Event20" project. Now the people of E! All Stars want to push things a bit further into the field of artistic transversality. They founded the "Section Amour", based on the interaction between their collective of artists and a computer software: a project of musical improvisation between artists that have played together a great number of times, and know each other very well, and thus want, after having experimented with almost every musical configurations (from laptop computers, improvisation to cheap keyboards, acoustic instruments, voices and guitars) to challenge their own collective creativity, eventually confronting it with further experimentations within the field of visual creation (beheld by musical/visual artists Davide Balula and Mehdi Hercberg). Project An interactive project between artists and a computer, "Section Amour" confronts free-will and the random indications of the software, a virtual electronic score which delivers more or less precise indications, which are to be projected on a great screen, that is to be viewed by both the musicians and the audience, (indications may appear in the shape of visual material, pics or videos). Every musician is allowed a right to "veto" against either the indication provided by the program, or against the current the improvisation: this "veto" technique is the incarnation of the will of the Section Amour against the machine; and makes it alike a parody of democracy, acting along the random wills of the world it acts upon. An "in situ" oriented project, Section Amour shall eventually fully unravel with a proper immersion within the specificities of each site of performance (city, language, inhabitants, collaborators...) a few days before the proper performance, in order to collect, gather and elaborate in situ "colors" and indications of improvisation within the memory of the software. The goal of every residency is the eventual realization of a multimedia/audio souvenir artefact, gathering archives and edits of the material gathered and improvisations performed. Participants Davide Balula (Davide & Balula), F.P. Clavel (François Pier), Bertrand Groussard (King Q4), Mehdi Hercberg (Shoboshobo), Olivier Lamm : (O.Lamm), Stéphane Laporte (Domotic), Damien Poncet (My Jazzy Child), Aurélien Potier (Relpot), Raphael Seguin (Erich Zahn). (Core collective, the number of participants may vary) Check : WWW.SECTION AMOUR.NET