aMute & Jean Paul Dessy (video by Régis Cotentin and Jérôme Deuson) (BE)
Exclusive concert
After having performed in Lille and Bruxelles, the duo aMute/Dessy (from Musiques Nouvelles) will play an exclusive AV concert for Cimatics festival. Creating a complete improved piece, aMute and Dessy are proposing a perfect crossover between Cello / Laptop / Reworked guitar. The live show will be recorded and will be part of an album to be out on Stilll in 2007.
About aMute–
aMute, aka Jérôme Deuson (wo owner of the Stilll label together with Alain Lefebvre) has released “The Sea Horse Limbo” and performed in various cities such as New York, Barcelona, Paris, Aberdeen, Glasgow and many famous festival. While being busy with its first band album with The Sea Horse Band, he’s still invited to play its unique live shows everywhere in Europe.
About Jean-Paul Dessy–
Jean-Paul Dessy is the headmaster of the Musiques Nouvelles Ensemble which played with people like Venus, Fennesz, Scanner and many famous pop stars. Dessy’s cello technique is respected and served to many actual musicians. He’s one of the most well knowned Belgian musician in the contemporary music.
About Régis Cotentin–
For the last five years, visual artist and director Regis Contentin has been producing films selected at over fifty festivals in France and abroad. His installations have been shown in several art institutions. Contentin's first film, "Aveugle" (Blind), received the Grand Prize at the Estavar Llivia 2000 Video Festival, and "Nach der Welle" received the Public Prize at the "Course of Stylists" MODO 2004 in Brussels. In its special issue "Cinema of Tomorrow", the film magazine Repérages selected the first opus of his trilogy "Intrigantes" entitled "Subjectile". The original soundtracks for his films and installations are the works of contemporary musicians such as DJ Olive (USA, New York), Jean-Paul Dessy (Belgium, Mons), Philip Jeck (UK, Liverpool), Scanner (UK, London) and David Shea (Australia, Melbourne). His images combine human, vegetal and animal figures, still lifes, simulated architecture and mobile decor, obeying a principal of composition based on metaphors.