Art Zoyd

Le Champ des Larmes (The Field of Tears)

Label: Art Zoyd / in-possible Records Country: France

Art Zoyd's soundtrack for the performance project by Gerard Hourbette, Kasper T. Toeplitz & Dominik Barbier, described as:

"The Field of Tears lies in the Underworld, which according to Greek mythology was crossed by the five rivers, which become movements of an imaginary concert of images and sounds. The concept of the river in the mythology of the Underworld forms the link with the creation of a single, uninterrupted flow. Based on this theme, this multimedia performance is an experiment in symbiotic writing between music and electronic image.

Le Champ des Larmes brings together three artists, composers GŽrard Hourbette and Kasper T. Toeplitz and video artist Dominik Barbier, and four musicians (keyboards and percussion). Actor Carlo Cecchi appears in video sequences reciting DanteÕs text.

Graphic images interact with the music in real time. Different technologies manage the distortion and interaction between the images, and a camera analyzes the movement of objects or bodies on stage in order to translate it into data.

A system of 5 video projectors immerses the audience in the centre of various sources and multiple media forms enabling the image to wander in the same way as the sound."-Change Performing Artists