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At the crossroads of electronic music, live performance and the visual arts, Hakeem Lapointe – under the name Amselysen – is developing an artistic practice in which sound texture becomes matter for thought, feeling and transformation. In this case, exploring this fantasy, the quest for the ideal perfume of a serial killer, no less.
Inspired by attentive listening to the world, the project draws as much on the poetry of field recording as on the deconstructed aesthetics of artists such as Oneohtrix Point Never, to compose works in which the boundary between composition and environment is blurred. Artist and curator for this edition of EAF x SAT x Tropisme, Amselysen wears many hats, navigating between the stage and curation with a resolutely experimental approach. Each performance becomes a field of exploration: a living space where sounds captured, transformed and reinterpreted take shape in the moment.
In the run-up to this program, conceived as an immersive, sensory experience (Saturday, May 31 at the Society for Arts and Technology – SAT), Amselysen shared some thoughts on his artistic journey, conceptual influences, relationship to the stage, and vision of out-of-format music. For PAN M 360, Félicité Couëlle-Brunet interviewed Amselysen and produced the following video montage.
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