Nabaz'mob
Prix
Ars Electronica Award of Distinction Digital Musics 2009
Nabaz'mob, opera for 100 smart rabbits
by Antoine Schmitt and Jean-Jacques Birgé
100 Nabaztag
smart rabbits play together an opera specially composed by Antoine
Schmitt et Jean-Jacques Birgé.
Evoking John Cage, Steve Reich, Conlon Nancarrow
and György Ligeti, this musical and choreographic score in
three movements, transmitted via wi-fi, plays on the tension
between the orchestral ensemble and the individual voices to
create a strong and involved showpiece. This opera questions
the issues of working together, organization, decision and control,
which are increasingly central and difficult in our contemporary
world.
Schmitt and Birgé have chosen to twist the industrial
object into an artwork in which the choreography of the ears,
the play of light and the hundred small loudspeakers hidden
in the stomachs of each rabbit create a composition with three
voices built on time delay and repetition, programming and disrespect
for rules.
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Choreography
and music by Antoine
Schmitt and Jean-Jacques
Birgé
with the help of Violet,
after an idea by Guylaine Monnier (Web
Flash Festival)
FILM
by Françoise
Romand (English subtitles, 3mn40s)
Flash Version of the creation at Centre
Georges Pompidou, Paris, May 27 2006
Mirrors : YouTube
- DailyMotion
- Vimeo
The
rabbits were originally brought by their owners in the same spirit of
the flashmobs
4 other films:
New York Making
of 2006 (film, 2mn06s)
Linz Ars Eletronica Celebration 2009 (film, 7mn58s)
Paris Rabbit New Year 2010 (film, 3mn08s)
Lille EuraTechnologies 2010 (film, 3mn21s)
The sound comes out the belly of each rabbit !
CD Animal Opera
Pictures
(click for 300dpi) - Audio
(extracts)
Press (newspapers, magazines,
TV & radio extracts, sites)
Details (concept &
technical information)
TechRider (technical pages)
Free Download of Machiavel (1998), an interactive video scratch by Birgé and Schmitt
 Version française
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