Show for Young Audiences & Families (50 min + discussion)
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MAÅSS, an android surrounded by machines and powerful synthesizers, shapes soundscapes.
ORFEY, this human beatboxer, sculpts rhythms and textures, using his voice and his faithful robot.
The discovery of a gold record brings them together: two worlds collide and open up a unique sonic dialogue.
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Are we alone in the universe?
What would music from elsewhere sound like?
What if the "Voyager Golden Record," that disc with Earth's coordinates launched into space in 1977, had been intercepted by another life form?
What would happen if a humanoid machinist paid a visit to a human beatboxer?
At the borders of the extraordinary, two diametrically opposed entities intersect thanks to the universal language of Music.
Emmanuel Heredia, aka ORFEY, discovered beatboxing in 2005 after a pivotal encounter with the Saïan Supa Crew and privileged training under Laurent Duprat, aka LOS.
On stage, he stands out with his Hip-hop Fusion duo POTSIKEI. Known for the precision of his beatbox patterns and mouth-drumming grooves, ORFEY is also the inventor of the famous "Vocal Bass." A beatmaker with a Lofi aesthetic, he is avidly listened to on Spotify.
French Beatbox Champion in 2020 with the quintet SQUID, ORFEY continues his artistic evolution today by exploring world music and joining the captivating trio EDEMZI.
As the founder of the GROWL UP FRANCE collective, he works to contribute to broadening the representation of Human Beatbox in the collective imagination and to give the discipline a more prominent place on the professional scenes of contemporary music and live performance.
A classically trained pianist initiated into Jazz improvisation, endowed with an Electro soul and imbued with a Hip-Hop feeling, Stephen Besse plays music naturally marked by the seal of diversity.
He likes to present himself as a "360° Pianist" playing simultaneously bass, harmonies and rhythms thanks to a set of keyboards/machines, and currently performs in the power duo POTSIKEI under the pseudonym MAÅSS.
Stephen has also performed with this sprawling technique in France and internationally (China, Colombia, New York, Reunion Island, Mexico, Egypt...) in the cine-concert LES MONDES FUTURS and the live-cinema DÉJÀ-VU.
In parallel, he develops DJ mixing (drum & bass) under TONN FORT, as well as a live machine (techno) under his Berlin name STEFFEN VON BESS.
Drawing on his experience as an artist, educator, and cultural player in modern music, he also offers "Lab.O Electro" workshops:
Playing and discovering the timbres of the legendary TR-808 / TR-909 drum machines and TB-303 / MOOG synthesizers.
