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Building a 360 Live Act : A Conversation With xl.iks and Adrien Bardet

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Date: 25.08.21

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Author: Laurent Bigarella

Photo Credit: Brice Robert


Hello! In a couple of days, you will perform in Nuits Sonores with an audio visual live. Can you tell us about this project which seems to integrate some sort of cinematographic dimension?

Adrien: The objective is not to make a short film, even though that’s what we started out with. We told ourselves that we were going to write a script, etc. But it is actually very complicated. Here, the idea was to make a visual piece that reacts live to sound. J-B (editor's note - xl.iks) sends me tracks which I use to create a video mapping that adapts to those tracks and images.

J-B: Those are some tracks that I had already done, but I adapted them a bit for this live. They are still well separated and sequenced through this live.

It’s true that for each track we’ll define a sound element, or two, or three, that will stand out from the rest. Adrien will map that out on one of the visual components in real time according to what I do. It will interact. 

Adrien: We don’t get any MIDI information. It’s really audio that we use to use to extract information and map them into videos. We hav...

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