Sonic Cinema - Week #2 - Wednesday, March 1

SONIC CINEMA - WEEK #2 - WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1 GENERAL INFORMATION Wednesday, March 1 · 19:00 - 20:30 Doors open at 18:50 Tickets on shotgun only - limited capacity Basement -2 35-37 Rue des Francs-Bourgeois, Paris 75004 PROGRAM SCHEDULE 19:30 - 19:40 Recalibration by Monom Studios (4DSOUND installation) 19:40 - 20:06 Soundwalk Collective with Charlotte Gainsbourg feat Atom™, Lyra Pramuk, Paul B. Preciado, Willem Dafoe, Lovotic (4DSOUND installation) 20:06 - 20:21 (15 min break) Recalibration by Monom Studios (4DSOUND installation) 20:21 - 21:00 Abyss X (4DSOUND Installation) ABOUT SONIC CINEMA To visit Sonic Cinema is to enter a liminal zone - a ‘space of possibles’ where Spatial Sound fundamentally enhances and alters the ways stories are told and experienced. A pure sonic experience, set in complete darkness - the Sonic Film is a film that the audience inhabits and experiences with their whole body. Uninhibited by the visual sense with its defined boundaries, this new medium enhances one's physiological experience, vastly expanding possibilities for narrative creation and embodiment. Before each session you will be able to experience a Recalibration by Monom Studios to tune in your senses. This moment will serve to sharpen our attention and in particular our ability to listen more deeply, to listen with the whole body. About the Artists & Projects Soundwalk Collective with Charlotte Gainsbourg feat Atom™, Lyra Pramuk, Paul B. Preciado, Willem Dafoe - Lovotic Lovotic is a new field of research that seeks to explore and develop the possibilities of sexual and emotional relationships, and even love, between humans and robots. Soundwalk Collective interrogates the impulses, ideas, and needs underlying this research and ventures into a future where sex, intimacy, and desire are reformulated through the intertwined connection of humans, robotics, and artificial intelligence.⁠ ⁠Human identity in an age of hybrid entanglement of the human and the machine requires and enables the construction of new forms of intimacy, gender, and sexuality. At present, however, we use such technologies primarily to produce programs of limited sexual iterations without questioning preformatted categories of gender and sexuality upheld in the interest of bio-political and economic appropriation. In contrast, Soundwalk Collective, together with actors Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe, queer theorist Paul B. Preciado, and musicians Lyra Pramuk and Atom™, who contribute texts, sounds, and voices, ask whether the future of intimacy could rather be an exponentially expanding kaleidoscope of sexuality. Throughout the piece, gender-blurring voices of various post-human entities allow a new language to emerge, which is generated by self-learning algorithms based on a database of excerpts from 20th century studies and literary texts on sexuality and gender.⁠ ⁠ Soundwalk Collective is the contemporary sonic arts platform of founder and artist Stephan Crasneanscki and producer Simone Merli. Working with a rotating constellation of artists and musicians, they develop site- and context-specific sound projects through which to examine conceptual, literary or artistic themes.⁠ Evolving along multi-disciplinary lines, Soundwalk Collective has cultivated long-term creative collaborations with musician Patti Smith, late director Jean-Luc Goddard, photographer Nan Goldin,⁠ choreographer Sasha Waltz, and actress and singer Charlotte Gainsbourg, among others. In doing so, their practice engages in the narrative potential of sound across mediums such as art installations, dance, music and film.⁠ Abyss X Hailing from Crete, home of the enigmatic ancient civilization of the Minoans, multi-disciplinary artist and aesthetic chameleon Evangelia VS aka Abyss X demonstrates virtuosity in experimental cross-genre composition by crafting a melange of sonic textures, drenched in its own unique sensual vibration. Her riveting voice boasts a 4-octave range, elegantly embosoming her musical arrangements. Abyss X is also the founder and resident DJ of community-driven dance music festival Nature Loves Courage, taking place in Sougia, on the southern tip of Crete.⁠ ______________________________________________ FAQ What is SPATIAL sound?⁠ Spatial sound is a term to describe the way we have evolved to perceive space through sound - it refers to the way we hear sound naturally in the world around us, in all its complexity and depth. From above, below, around us, through and within us. The perfect spatial sound experience is the one we experience every day. When we refer to spatial sound technology, this is technology that aims to recreate this effect.⁠ ______________________________________________ PLEASE NOTE We advise coming 20 prior to the start of the sessions to enjoy Monom Studios Recalibrations For a better experience we recommend having cell phones turned off as light can distract from the experience. If you need to leave the room in the middle of the session, please do so in silence. No cash accepted for the tickets, all the tickets are sold only on shotgun. Possibility to buy directly at the beginning of the event on shotgun. No ticket refund. - Spatial Sound by MONOM Studios Production: 3537 Technology: 4DSOUND Thanks to Dover Street Market Paris Visual identity by Studio Doppelgänger