Howl/Touched

Photo of Patrick St-Denis

Photo:

Patrick St-Denis

Howl/Touched

Written by

Patrick St-Denis

for

FlyingCan

interpreted by

Patrick St-Denis

as part of:

Totem Electric #9

There’s something ghostly about Jean-François Laporte’s FlyingCan. The air that enters by the bevel of the instrument produces sounds that sometimes recall the human voice or the cry of an animal. I wanted to put this aspect forward by augmenting the FlyingCan with a positioning sensor in order to trigger sounds and control lights located on the floor. The triggered sounds, often close to the feminine voice, prolong the presence of the body, already manifest at the level of the instrument, to the interactive components. - P. Saint-Denis

This excerpt of Howl/Touched was filmed during Totem Électrique IX at the Montreal Music Conservatory on 3 June 2017.