SEASON OPENING WEEKEND - PRIMITIF + SYNKIE

To mark its opening, MIAM is offering two special evenings to publicly inaugurate the venue and showcase its potential. We're very proud to be kicking off our programme with Primitif and Synkie, two projects that have already been successfully presented across Europe.

Primitif
Musician, improviser, composer, and wild luthier, Julien Corda, originally from the Drôme region, is passionate about byways, oddities, and the discoveries they bring. Alongside multiple experiences in rock bands or ensembles, he discovered improvisation and later trained in conducting. He also studied the gesture language developed by Walter Thompson, the inventor of soundpainting.

Primitif, an electro-mechanical orchestra, is pure trance: a lysergic and organic rave, a blend of acoustically produced sounds, homemade mechanical automatons, and wild tribal rhythms, all filtered through the electronic machines of the 21st century, whose operation only he knows, performed under high voltage as if his life depended on it.

Synkie
For the past 25 years Michael Egger (*74) has been experimenting with the interaction between live visuals and music. With his homemade visual instruments like the award winning Videobass and Synkie, as well as the Videozither and other inventions, he collaborated with musicians around the world.

In his newest project – Phonorescence – Michael goes solo and lets the images sing for themselves. Fusing the analog waveforms from signal generators and surveillance cameras into one stream that is recaptured with more cameras from cathode ray tube monitors he creates feedback loops that simultaneously produce picture and sound – a synaesthetic experience between drones and minimal techno, between seventies-style video art and twentieth century glitch aesthetics.

Michael developed the SYNKIE modular analog video processor in collaboration with Max Egger and Flo Kaufmann. All of his instruments are published under open source licenses.

When he’s not performing he develops interactive installations for exhibitions, organises participative television projects, works as a light designer for theatre and teaches physical computing and MaxMSP/Jitter at ZHdK, Zurich University of the Arts.

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