[2007]
• SLIDERS_2
A "Master class" was carried out with PhD students at the UQÀM. This workshop, focusing on cinema and interactivity, broadly tackled a certain amount of study fields :
- Fine arts (sound composition, notions of mixing and editing, sampling and quoting, performing);
- Cinema (a cinema broaden by the computer, the notion of remake and remix);
- Musique concrète (sound objects and composing for the cinema);
- Computer science (databases and the spacialization of data).
Hexagram, performance, Montréal, Canada, June 1st.
The SLIDERS band's "performers" was made of : Jérôme Allavena, Béatrice Bailet, Stéphanie Cadoret, Camille Durand, Gérard Quilès, Nicolas Sasoon, Mickaël Vivier, Frédéric Voignier.
Laurent Macowek, video teacher at the ÉESI, Joël Grelier and Patrick Sausse, sound and video technician respectively at ÉESI, went with the band.
Audrey Cazenave, computer technician at the ÉESI, also brought her help in Angoulême for the creation of the database on the server.
Workshop calendar
First day
AM - General presentation. Presentation of the different speakers (teachers, technicians and students). Presentation of the workshop course.
PM - Building of the SLIDERS control center. Directions for use of the control center and try-outs by the students.
2nd day
AM - Project presentation, lectures from the different teachers following their area of expertise and showing of the demos made during the previous performances.
PM - Watching and commentary of the two original movies (« Psychose » and « Psycho »). Collective film analysis.
3rd day
AM - Watching and commentary of the original movies (« Psychose » and « Psycho »). Collective film analysis.
PM - Composition of workgroups (mixed ÉESI-UQÀM) and work on the plastic suggestions.
4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th day
AM and PM - Rotation between tests of the control center, work on the plastic suggestions, training and showing of the different suggestions on the control center.
9th day
AM and PM - Main rehearsal. Successive showing of the different plastic suggestions.
10th day
AM - Main rehearsal if needed, or recess.
PM – Performance and acknowledgements.
Thanks to the amazing work of Thierry Guibert on location, who is also a PhD student, and to Mrs Louise Poissent, dean of the faculty of arts at the UQÀM, the SLIDERS team was able to rehearse and show a demo-performance in the Hexagram facilities.
Founded in 2001, Hexagram is an institute of research, art creation and media technologies. It was born from the union of two major Montreal universities which are the Concordia University (Concordia) and the University of Québec at Montréal (UQÀM), which have been joined in 2006 by the University of Montréal and the McGill University (McGill). 79 academic creator-researchers, assisted by 350 graduate and postgraduate students, are currently accomodated in the facilities.
Video 1
Video 2
Photo album (click on a picture to access the slideshow)
