> Quadrichromies
> Quadri[+]Chromies brings together the video pictures of Bernard Caillaud
and the electronic music of d'Hector Zazou. Though images and music are generated
by computer, there is no systematic search for synchronicity. Colors and sounds
seem to dialogue in a strange mechanical music that becomes, by pure chance,
suddenly understood by the spectator.
Quadri[+]Chromies is presented two ways (which can be complementary):
1 - An installation. Every monitor has its painting and its music, which evolve
into infinity, never repeating themselves.
2 - A concert. The paintings are projected onto two or four screens (the images
use a format of 5X6 meters) and the music is broadcast quadrophonically. Musician
and painter intervene on the shapes and sounds, in real time.
Sonic landscapes / Visual landscapes
Evolving music and shapes
| Several works are necessary to resume
the fforts to marry these two sensorially constructed spaces: The relationships
between sound and colors, between frequencies and wavelengths; have been
explored by everyone from Newton to criabine, Valensi to Xenakis, Schönberg
to Baranoff-Rossiné, Fischinger to Blanc-Gatti. Everyone including
today’s software designers and their charming black boxes that input
music and output lights or images that change according to a body’s
movements…
Inverse feedback is beginning, with the graphic synthesis
of sounds. In any case, the liaison must be legible/visible or at least
driven by a process that is often complex but justifiable…I almost
wrote demonstrable thus comprehensible. I’m not sure if this Correspondence
between the Arts makes sense, but it is endlessly and hungrily investigated
through the concept of interactivity and its dance of signals that release
special effects.
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But we all know that interactivity is an illusion. There is always a master
and a slave. One decides and the other obeys. To destroy this relationship
is to disconnect in order to better communicate, to give free reign to
dialogues born of chance, to cheer at accidents of synchronicity, to render
the incidents of this path exciting and unique.
With Quadri[+]Chromies we have chosen juxtaposition over
connection. We want to shatter the Correspondence imposed by our cultural
references, to liberate ourselves from our obsessive desire to understand
in order to better perceive. We want to suggest a way of making sense
of sensorial encounters that are fortuitous and rare.
Because of its random nature, our experiment will be
called into question every time. The only sure thing is that this is a
creation, not entirely controllable, between Musician, Painter, Machines
and programs driven by Chance.
We are at the beginning of a fragile and difficult exploration… |
B.C. & H.Z. 2002
BERNARD CAILLAUD
> Deceased in July 2004, Bernard Caillaud, trained as a physician, devoted
himself to Painting and Photography in the early 1960s, and discovered the act
of creation via computer programming in the early 1980s. His work is especially
focused on cellular robots, which he considers to be irreplaceable motors of
exploration.
> He simultaneously pursued research on color and sound, and temporal algorithmic
creation, which led him to Algocinetic Painting. “This is about establishing
algorithms marked by randomness, which, during a voluntarily limited length
of time (the program goes in a loop with a meter) reveal an identity without
strict repetition. This is about one of the facets of my research on “temporal
paintings” that I started several years ago on an Amiga computer, which
emphasizes the perception of color in evolution”.
> He is the author of numerous articles and two books, "Couleur et
Aléatoire" in 1988 and "La création numérique
visuelle. Aspects du Computer Art" in 2001, published by Editions Europia-Paris.
Bernard Caillaud’s work has been exhibited across France (Honfleur, Caen,
Rouen, Paris, Vitry, Grenoble, Ceret...) as well as abroad (Holland, United
States, Belgium, Great Britain, Ukraine, Canada, Cameroon, The Czech Republic...).
He has also participated in many conferences and his audiovisual pieces have
been projected throughout Europe (Caen, Paris, Strasbourg, Toulouse, Rouen,
Portsmouth, Milan...)
Of particular note :
- Jacques Pasquier, documents Caen 1982
- Modulations Aléatoires Caen 1986
- Black Music, the Blues Yaoundé, Douala 1987
- Peinture et couleur numérique
- Palais de la Découverte Paris 1992
- Création NumériqueAléatoire Caen 1995
- Algorithmic Space Portsmouth 1998
- Aléatoires numériques Paris/Mulhouse 2001/2002
- Quadri[+]chromies Florence 2002
> His most recent exhibition, (Aléatoires numériques) was part
of the "Les Mondes lumière" exhibition that was presented at
the l'Espace Electra-Paris from 25/10/2001 to 17/3/2002, then at the Musée
Electropolis de Mulhouse from 14 juin to 31 aout 2002.
"He is a scientist in the sense that he proceeds, tweaking and readjusting,
in an endless back and forth motion between the program and the screen (theory
and practice). He is an artist in the sense that he uses images that are tremendously
rich and perfectly coherent (style), whose origins remain a mystery".
Michel Ellenberger, Exporevue- Nov. 2001
"Beautiful like a color scanner, impossible to describe and highly
recommended to those math dummies who always asked what good it was to know
about equations that went from zero to infinity. Well now, you need them to
construct rocketships, don’t you? And to put together one of the most
powerful exhibits of the season". A Nous Paris -n° 115 -Nov. 2001
"We find ourselves in the midst of art that is both experimental and
passionate at once.” Le Figaroscope – Nov. 2001
"The polychrome works are simultaneously aggressive and attractive,
enhanced by the blackness of the space. The artist has built a highly original
universe, with an atmosphere that is strange, peaceful and almost spell-binding…”
Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace-Jeudi 8 Aug. 2002
"Between science and art, Caillaud plays, like an inspired creator,
with chance and possibilities, which we imagine are infinite. Machines. But
what is most remarkable is that very quickly, technique gives way to beauty."
L'Alsace -14-08-2002.
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