Sound & Visual Workshop Led by TremensS and Ténèbre (ExperiensS / 665.99), Pierre Carré (IRCAM computer music designer)

Monday, June 16—Saturday, June 21, 2025 at the CENTQUATRE-PARIS

In 1972, Iannis Xenakis' Polytope de Cluny was a rare combination of sophisticated and popular art: an immersive sonic and visual experience, the prototype for many multimedia works. The spatialized soundtrack, the crackling flashes, the figures drawn by the laser beams and reflected by the mirrors... this unconventional work plunged the spectator into a hurricane of lights and electronic music.

In June 2022, the digital art studio ExperiensS and Pierre Carré (IRCAM) readapted the Polytope for the first time with its original monumental scale, alongside a new creation by the Italian collective /nu/thing with ExperiensS, Where You There at the Beginning. The new 2025 edition includes two new electronic creations, 665.99 (TremensS x Ténèbre) and CHLOÉ.

For the ManiFeste Academy, TremensS, Ténèbre, and Pierre Carré will be using the Polytope 2025 installation to explore the creative, experiential, and technical issues involved in an immersive audiovisual installation or performance.

Application deadline Wednesday, January 15, 2025, 10am CEST.

Candidates must:

• be born after January 1, 1993
• not have already participated twice in another ManiFeste Academy workshop
• be able to speak and understand English or French

MORE DETAILS: https://www.ircam.fr/transmission/manifeste/academie/in-situ-polytopes

Crédit photo : Stephane Sby Balmy