An immersive, participatory musical experience
Inspired by the movement of stars, Astérismes is an immersive sound and light installation, broadcast through sculptures and the public’s telephones, becoming sound and light instruments producing shared figures.
Astérismes offers a new musical experience, without a front stage, focusing on the audience’s own space. It’s a sensitive experience of space and time, linked by music and encouraging audience involvement. Astérismes exists in two forms: concert and installation.
Asterisms are figures that humans trace in the sky in one or several constellations. For example, in Ursa Major one can see the Big Dipper. We aim at creating links between participants, by listening to the sounds that circulate between them.
Here, the artists create a sensory experience and time systems inspired by astronomy, with musical compositions influenced by electronic music and the digital arts. Participants can be mobile or not within the installation, to choose their point of view and develop their listening experience in space. Sound and light are spatialised, distributed to the audience’s smartphones and to sounding and lighting sculptures. The audience is invited to wander freely through a sensitive experience of time and space, both interconnected by music, where each participant becomes an independent sound source evolving in space. This allows perception to navigate from the personal field, to the neighbours, in an openness to others, both sonically and socially, up to the ensemble. Each person is unique, yet part of a larger movement, like stars linked in constellations, in a shared space that is both immersive and expansive.
Asterisms is an immersive, participatory sound installation inspired by the movement of the stars, in which the audience wanders continuously, with the possibility of performance times as concerts (from 15 to 45 minutes).
A frugal installation with a total power of 300W, transportable in 3 suitcases. There is no technical requirement. Of course, we can take advantage of the possibilities offered by each venue, particularly for staging and lighting. In any case, as we are autonomous, we offer to take over alternative venues that would not otherwise be suitable for events, as long as they are quiet and spacious.
