Listen to and watch videos of my works
Listen to pieces I did not compose but played
Listen to pieces where I improvise
Listen to versions of my Play Station Portable made by random people
You already all know about my Play Station Portable, the contemporary music live generator which I programmed with my cute fingers. Well, so here I put the best pieces made by totally unknown people during the various installations of my PSP (so far: Basel, Lausanne and Geneva). I hope that the people I do not put here will not beat me up. One more thing: listen to the PSP with headphones, it’s better, because I made it in binaural format, you will hear the sounds travel through your head, it will be marvelous.
The 23rd of March 2007, in the HSM Basel, it was the first time the PSP was made available. I showed the example myself, soon followed by Anne, then Anne2, then Luke.
Later, from May to June 2007 at the Lapin Vert in Lausanne, the PSP wandered around. We experienced the outstanding performances of Thomas, Rachel, Brigitte, Gilles, Caca (he or she signed like this, sorry), and ddd.
From the 20th to the 22nd of September 2007 at the festival Akouphène, on Jamasp’s invitation (many thanks to him), perfectly installed and managed by Navin (many thanks to him), without even stepping a foot at the festival (I was at the swimming pool), my PSP beat its own record of audience with no less than FIFTY ONE people playing it in three evenings. Many thanks from the bottom of my heart to akouphène, and here is the (quite subjective) list of top players, in order of arrival: Navin, bb, jhg, Simon, Chechilia, fewf, Michael, who played for 22 minutes, bravo, and Gigot. Many thanks to them.
September 2007 to May 2008, at the théâtre du Grütli (Geneva), one could play with my PSP on certain evenings, particularly before my concerts there, but not only. The best games are signed by: Gaël, dorothea_enter_your_name, pack_mann, lola, niki, who signed my favourite PSP so far, by the way, bravo to him or her, suzanne, chrisssstina, Josef2, Fabio and Heike. That was “a year at the Grütli”. Bravo to them.
(study for a poster, ©François Galinier)