CHOEUR is basically an installation whose heart is made of poetry.
In the "window" stand a number of characters. It is the inhabitants of a particular castle, men and women, who challenge the visitor. " Come here. Psst, psst ... Do you want to hear a poem? "
They are poets from Quebec and Belgium. Delayed poetic presences and reduced to the proportions of the castelet.
When, to answer the call, the visitors approach the window, the poets recite at the same time a flow of worms which are not confused. Then, gradually, they give each other the floor. The verses are linked together, quickly at the beginning, then more slowly until only one poet is heard. He says his poem - the others let it say - then gradually fades, leaving room for a sound and visual, a landscape echoing poetry. Then the ground comes alive, the text is visual. When the last word of the poet falls, the others come back and challenge the visitor again.
The castelet presents original texts and their authors, each of whom is associated with an audio artist who has composed a piece specifically. It is thus about duets formed by an author and an audio artist. Each duo is complemented by a video creation designed specifically for the device, as well as a dynamic typographic animation created by the artist Mickaël Lafontaine, who uses a tool-work he has developed: the Audiographe *. The Audiographe uses the poet's voice to modulate the typographic animations he creates.
The Chœur (s) project is a variable configuration installation and a tablet application developed with the support of the artist and developer Louis-Robert Bouchard. Rhizome production.
(Source: http://nt2.uqam.ca/fr/actualites/choeurs-pour-castelet-une-installation…)
