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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
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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 !
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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