jeanfrançois blanquet

eyes_for_ears: “macro-video for musicians in action”
This project juxtaposes different experimental musicians. Each artist was asked to improvise sound work. The short video are documentations of these processes. it was almost a physical experience, the sources of sounds and the relation between movement, materials and oscillation became evident.
video : jérôme fino
audio : jeanfrançois Blanquet
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0090 festival
Date: 14 February 2009, 20.30
Location: KVS Brussels, Arduinkai 7, 1000 Brussels

Choreography/concept: Rosa Mei
Dancer: Asli Ozturk
Sound artist: JeanFrançois Blanquet

FENDER BENDER: studies in twin reverb
Fender Bender: a collision between motor vehicles that produces minor
damage. Fender bender: a natural event, occurrence, happening or
accident.

In her newest dance piece, Rosa Mei plays with the notion of twin
reverb. The twins in this case are not identical dancers but rather a
dancer and an invisible, yet tangible partner – a constantly morphing
sound element – which co-exists with the dancer as a live performer.
Experimental sound artist JeanFrançois Blanquet will create a highly
sensitive, viscous sound environment through which Turkish dancer
Asli Ozturk travels.

text-voice-video = jean-philippe Convert
live audio construction = jeanfrançois Blanquet

at Cinesthesy/Paris.
this is a story of an electric signal.

Body Babel’s video in Antwerp ====================================================
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Body Babel
Words are loaded pistols. Language is both memory and metaphor. In “Body Babel”, dance artists from across Europe (Belgium, Lithuania, Turkey, Slovakia, Armenia and Spain) explore the cultural semiotics of body language. How are our gestures, sense of touch and personal space affected by our cultural identity? How does body language act as a sort of cultural memory and define us as individuals? In a performance combining mental and physical virtuosity, two angels, a few Babylonians and faith healers seek out “the dangerous gesture.” Cross cultural psychology in a Tower of Babel.

Director : Rosa Mei (USA/Belguim)
Dance artists:
Kehond Champion Bakomba (Belgium)
Talin Buyukkurkciyan (Armenia)
Tomas Danielis (Slovakia)
Yentl de Werdt (Belgium)
Sebastian Garcia Ferro (Spain)
Asli Ozturk (Turkey)
Lina Puodziukaite (Lithuania)
Sound artist:
jeanfrançois Blanquet (France)

2008 dates:
09 sept : Brussels. CC Jacques Franck – 20h30
11,12 sept : Antwerp. WCC Zuiderpershuis – 20h30
19,20 sept : Istambul. Talimane Tiyatrosu – 20h00
30 sept : Klaipeda (Lithuania). Int’l Dance Festival
3 oct : Kaunus (Lithuania). Int’l Dance Festival