Franck Vigroux
Artist
Cie D'Autres Cordes · France
Franck Vigroux is a multifaceted artist, composer, and director whose works range from experimental electronic music to modern composition, music theatre, and video. Vigroux’s music is made of tectonic tensions, beats, electronic textures, and a very personal approach to sonic exploration. He is equally prolific as a solo artist and as a collaborator. He has worked with musicians such as Elliott Sharp, Mika Vainio, Reinhold Friedl, Ars Nova, and more.
Vigroux’s uniqueness comes from his artistic approach that integrates new media and performance arts. He designs transdisciplinary shows and audiovisual concerts, collaborating with visual artists such as Antoine Schmitt and Kurt d’Haeseleer.
Franck Vigroux and Antoine Schmitt present excerpts of their works, the live audiovisual performances - Cascades and Atotal.
Cascades is inspired by the concept of waterfalls, here represented by flows of pixels, which movements are generative, meaning never the same. For the music, this same concept is used as inspiration to compose music using electronic instruments, a sort of continuum reminding of surge and immutability. Fruit of a decade long of collaboration between the two artists, Cascades represent both infinite movement and stability, but also where catastrophes can happen: a synesthetic artwork, both contemplative, reflexive, and a physical experience.
Atotal is a work based on hyper synchronisation of sound and visual, slowly deconstructed during the performance.