This summer, at the SAT’s new gallery space, the Bell Orchestre Sound House welcomes you into an imaginary house made of music and memory.
Produced by Envision Management and Production, the Bell Orchestre Sound House is a multi-participant, interactive audiovisual installation that summons the sounds of Bell Orchestre’s 2021 album, House Music. Directed by AATOAA (Vincent Morisset and Caroline Robert) Sound House brings Bell Orchestre’s music to life in a new space.
The installation takes the form of an interactive abstract home where visitors can wander through this surreal space, play with the music and interact with the environment. By picking and placing an array of domestic and sentimental artefacts around the room, the Sound House transforms through the actions of participants. Melodies, moods and views are triggered: the weather changes, seasons shift, a spatialized musical score is co-composed in real time based on the original recording, and time and place slide by outside its windows.
From June 7th to July 27th, Bell Orchestre Sound House opens the door to a welcoming space, where the public will be able to experience a communal creative feeling like no other.
An award-winning group formed in 2003 and operating in an instrumental realm that privileges neoclassical, post rock, jazz and soundtracks—Bell Orchestre is comprised of members Richard Reed Parry, Sarah Neufeld, Stefan Schneider, Pietro Amato, Michael Feuerstack and Kaveh Nabatian. The 2021 release House Music is the group’s third, and first album in a decade. The album has already been recreated as a full length performance film, and been adapted for orchestra and performed by the Montreal and Aarhus Symphonies. Work on this iteration as an interactive audiovisual installation began in mid-2022.
Vincent Morisset and Caroline Robert of studio AATOAA (“à toi!”) are known for works which combine craftsmanship and technology. In each of their projects, visitors are invited to become participants through experiences that transform perspectives about our relationship with each other, and the way we see the larger world around us. The AATOAA universe is embodied in many different forms—interactive video, installations in public space, XR, net art, and multi-sensory projects. Among their creations: Vast Body, Habitat, Motto, Composition, Brainstream and Being Giants. They have been the recipient of an Emmy Award, a Grammy and several Webbys.