S.S.S
Sensors_Sonics_Sights
Cecile
Babiole,
Laurent Dailleau,
and Atau
Tanaka create together a dynamic
sound/image environment. S.S.S
is a trio performing visual music with sensors and gestures. They create a work
of sound and sight, a laptop performance that goes beyond with the intensity
of bodies in movement. Going beyond media: music that is more than a soundtrack,
images going further than video wallpaper. A three-way conversation modulating
sonic and luminous pulse and flow.
Sensors capture gesture
and corporeal movement, translating them into digital data:
- Ultrasound
sensors measure the distance between the performer’s hands and
her machine, allowing her to articulate 3D imagery, navigating in color, scale,
texture…
- The Theremin,
historical electronic instrument invented in 1919, an oscillator responds
to perturbations of electrostatic fields based on the distance of the hands
and body to the instrument…
- The BioMuse
places gel electrodes on the performer’s forearms, analyzing EMG biosignals.
Muscle tension through concentrated movement allows the musician to sculpt
sound synthesis.
S.S.S’s
singular approach brings them to present their work in a wide range of contexts
in music and the digital arts. They are equally at home performing in galleries
or underground spaces, in arts centers or research laboratories.
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See
the video
S.S.S in concert
at the H2PTM03, St.Denis, September 26 2003
(video footage by Sylvain and Higepon)
- Le
Loup (MPEG4, 9 MB) to
download entire file, Right-Click (Mac users Control-Click) and select "Download
Link to Disk"
- Crystal
Blue Persuasion (MPEG4, 13 MB) -
try viewing double size :-)
- Lifting
(MPEG4, 18 MB) entire
piece
See
photos 
Concerts
- 29mar2008 Sk-Interfaces FACT ,
Liverpool, United Kingdom
- 22mar2008 - Electron
Festival,
Geneva, Switzerland
- 21dec2007 Live!IXEM Festival ,
Palermo, Italy
- 07jul2007 5DAYSOFF Festival ,
Amsterdam, Netherlands
- 03jun2007 New
York Electronic Art Festival,
New York, USA
- 12may2007 SPOR
Festival, Aarhus, Denmark
- 14apr2007 DEAF
Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands
- 28oct2006 CitÈ de la musique/MusÈe de la musique Paris,
France
- 12oct2006 Lausanne Underground Film and Music Festival, Lausanne, Switzerland
- 24aug2006
- WAVES- Riga, Latvia
- 15jul2006
- Digital Art Week- Zurich, Switzerland
- 20jun2006
- Centre Culturel Français - Arequipa, Peru
- 09jun2006
- VAE10 - Lima, Peru
- 06jun2006 NIME, IRCAM, Paris,
France
- 31may2006 Festival MUTEK , Montréal, Canada
- 18apr2006 Mal au Pixel , Institut Culturel Finlandais, Paris, France
- 25feb2006 Making New Waves ,Budapest, Hungary
- 28oct2005 Lieux
Communs Instants Chavires, Montreuil,
France
- 30sep2005 ‚ Disquiet Festival- Disquiet Festival, 21Grand, Oakland,
California, USA
- 27sep2005 ‚ Medi@rte Festival ‚ Medi@rte Festival , Monterrey,
Mexico
- 23sep2005 Les
Chants Mecaniques Festival, Lille, France
- 27aug2005 ‚ Numusic Festival, Stavanger, Norway
- 05apr2005
- Toneelschuur - )toon)
festival, Haarlem, Netherlands
- 31mar2005
- Fragment/Faux
Mouvement- Theatre de Saucy, Universite de Metz
- 18dec2004
- Palais de Tokyo - EMF10th
Anniversary, Paris, France
- 26nov2004
- Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux, France
- 12nov2004
- iMAL Infiltrations
Digitales, Brussels, Belgium
- 02oct2004
- Nuit Blanche with Sensorband,
Kasper Toeplitz, Paris, France
- 05sep2004
- Sony CSL Paris Symposium,
Paris, France
- 18aug2004
- Club BonBon, ISEA2004,
Tallinn, Estonia - with support from
- 19jun2004
- Sonarama - Sonar
Festival, Barcelona, Spain
- 17jun2004
- Panorama5, Le Fresnoy,
Lille, France
- 04jun2004
- Submarine
Base, Bordeaux, France
- 27may2004
- Festival
Musique Action, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France
- 23apr2004
- CCNRB, Rennes, France
- 30jan2004
- Club Transmediale,
Berlin, Germany
- 17jan2004
- Filmwinter17,
Stuttgart, Germany
- 10jan2004
- Les Subsistances,
Lyon, France
- 26sept2003,
15:30 - Amphi X - Univ Paris 8 - St. Denis - S.S.S. Premier -
H2PTM03
-
24sept2003, 20:30 - Les
Voutes- - sneak preview of 9/26 show - flyer
- map,Paris, France
Contact:
The group brings together
three artists renowned in their own right:
- Cecile
Babiole is a
visual artist who has been awarded prizes at festivals such as Imagina
and Transmediale
for her work in computer graphics and public space installations, television
broadcasts on Canal+,
and releases on VinylVideo,
- Laurent
Dailleau is the
sole French virtuoso of the Theremin, active on the international scenes of
electroacoustic and improvised music in festivals like Musique
Action, with releases on Sonoris,
33revpermi, 23five,
- Atau
Tanaka, the
japanese-american artist, is innovator in music technology, his work being
presented in arts centers such as ZKM,
Ars
Electronica, and ICC,
and released on Caipirinha,
Bip-hop, Touch/Ash,
Sirr-ecords,
Subrosa.
Other
video
Cecile Babiole
and Atau Tanaka in concert at the Festival
Why Note, Dijon, November 2002 (video footage by Stephan
Aube)