Ritual for a Dying Planet is an audiovisual performance that explores the boundaries between sound, image, and perception. It is a visceral journey into the heart of experimental music and immersive visual art.
Synopsis
Inspired by ancient rituals that bridge the physical and mental realms, this piece is an invitation to experience radical synesthetic shocks. It aims to provoke and awaken, challenging the passive acceptance of a world in crisis.
The performance is neither purely symbolic nor ideologically driven, yet it consciously embraces a radical aesthetic. It seeks to stir deep emotions and confront systemic risks, celebrating the incandescent end of a burning world through a collective ritual.
If the system cannot be changed through politics, could it be transformed through radical emotions and profound aesthetic experiences?
Aesthetics and Concept
Ritual for a Dying Planet is a 25-minute live performance that fuses glitchy, organic visuals with noisy, spectral soundscapes. It is a tribute to the distortion of visual and sonic matter, creating a fusional exchange between the two mediums. The piece is crafted to mesmerize audiences, inviting them to let go and perhaps reach an altered mental state.
The performance is built on real-time generative visuals and a spectral, noise-driven sound direction, creating a contemporary, digital ritual that transcends the purely audiovisual to touch something primal and visceral.
Commissioned for the Lunch Meat Festival 2021, this piece has continued to evolve, adapting to each venue and audience, becoming a living, ever-changing work.
If you are interested by my audiovisual work, you can also have a look on Ethereal, an audiovisual show for dome created in 2020 and premiered at SAT Montreal
Ritual for a dying planet Live at Wesa festival (2024):
In January 2024, it was presented at Hexagone Scene Nationale Arts & science :
In March 2024 it was featured during European Media Art Platform (EMPA) meeting in Cyprus, organized by Neme.org