INTERCAL is a median space, a zone of interference, designed to foster the emergence, within our cultural landscape, of new forms of creation linked to new technologies. Hybrid and unconventional, aimed at a target audience in search of sensory and immersive experiences, where the proposed works act as mediums helping to question the traditional links between sound and image, in the same way as more familiar forms of contemporary culture such as cinema or theater.
INTERCAL is a multi-faceted project, conceived as an artistic intervention aimed at a specific target area. After a first action to promote the Sorbonne and its history, as part of the Nuit Blanche 2014 in Paris, and a second within the Festival International de Carthage 2015, INTERCAL reinvents itself, taking over La Bulle, a light, immersive and nomadic architecture, which will host electroacoustic performances and Lives A/V, poetic and narrative parts of electronic music.

ON THE PROGRAM

LA BULLE Collective

The fruit of an initial collaboration between Echos Electrik and the « La Bulle » collective, a new co-financed structure will be designed especially for the event. Ephemeral and geodesic, La Bulle offers a new experience between confined space and the open air. Nomadic, it brings people together around a new immersive experience at the crossroads of sound and visual plastics. This playful and unusual space is a place for exchange and sharing, where air gives it its shape, and its actors give it their breath. La Bulle is an association under the law of 1901, made up of a multi-disciplinary team (architects, designers, sustainable development engineers, artists and players from the cultural and associative worlds). Its mission is to promote socio-cultural and artistic activities with a view to local development.

Shinigami San (TN) – Live

Constantly exploring new sound worlds, Shinigami San is always at the crossroads of several influences. Ambient weaves and ethereal sound scapes are increasingly present in his work and sound research.

Spatial (UK)) – Primitives

The live Audiovisual ‘Primitives’ is a performance-based opti-sonic installation by Spatial that uses custom-made, home-coded software to explore sonic and optical intensity articulated by simple geometric figures and extreme frequencies. Projected images lead to a sensory assault, consumed by the eyes, then by the ears and existing somewhere between perceptions. In keeping with the material aspects of live audiovisual art, Spatial’s method of distorting and altering coded light brings a new realization to the relationship between seeing sound and hearing color.

SKNDR (TN) – Live

SKNDR is a Tunisian composer and electronic musician who recently moved back to Tunisia from Berlin. Born in Tunis in 1979, he began playing music in the early 90s, first as a guitarist, then as a drummer in several local rock bands. In 2005, he founded the HEXTRADECIMAL collective to develop the local electronic scene, then the Infinite Tapes label in 2014 with Tarek « DVSN » Louati. Since then, he has championed his vision of music on many fronts, in clubs, or on the stages of FEST, now E-FEST, the Nuits Sonores, Riddim collision festivals, and at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris. A hyperactive player on the Tunisian scene, SKNDR will present a live set with analog sounds densely populated with acoustic samples, aerial textures and repetitive rhythms. Halfway between Techno and Drone music.

RUSSELL HASWELL (UK) – live modular sythesizers

Russell Haswell is a multidisciplinary artist, performer and curator, born in Coventry and currently based in Suffolk, England. With a background steeped in computer music, black metal, noise, techno, free-stye and solo improvisation, his practice is renowned for approaching the extremes of the visual and sonic arts. He has performed in live and HDJ [hard disc jockey] actions with Aphex Twin, Gescom, Pan Sonic and Masami Akita (Merzbow), among others, and worked with Florian Hecker on Iannis Xenakis’s UPIC system as part of their duo Haswell & Hecker, whose album « Blackest Ever Black » (Warner Classics) is widely regarded as a compositional milestone in modern electronic music. Russell’s recorded work has also been released by a number of esteemed publishing houses, including the 8-track CD catalog ‘Live Salvage 1997 – 2000′ (Honorable Mention, Digital Music’s, Prix Ars Electronica) for Editions Mego, as well as Warp, Downwards, and his OR label, which produced the world’s first MiniDisc.