J'AI ATTRAPÉ — Cameron Graham

Composer, artist, sensory percussionist and creative technologist currently based in London. Commissions include the London Symphony Orchestra, IRCAM, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Brussels Philharmonic and Schallfeld Ensemble Graz. Recent work commissioned and premiered at the Guggenheim Museum, FACT Liverpool, BEK Bergen and ZhdK Zurich. Work and research unfold between concert and electronic music, intermedia, hybrid performance, interaction design and installation. Interested in history of sonic culture, entertainment, psychoacoustics, automation, affect and simulation.

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Concert Music
Electronic Music
PERFORMANCEFake and Extinct
Admiror
J’ai Attrappé un Éclair
Abstracts, With LoveINSTALLATIONContact Results in Contagion
Your Body is a Colony
Zenith / Bernaskoni
Encounters
MOVING IMAGEMetamers
Rhadinace
Sound Design
RESEARCH/WORLDS Writing
Simulation

→ J’ai Attrapé un Éclair (et Imprisonné la Foudre)
I caught a lightning bolt, and imprisoned the lightning

Video Excerpts2024
Commissioned by le lieu unique

Direction: Blandine Briere and Guillaume Lavenant
Sound Recording, Interviews: Blandine Briere
Composition, Sound Design, Sensory Percussion: Cameron Graham
Dance, Movement: Sofian Jouni and Amine Hakiri
Scenography: Lise Abbadie
General Manager: Flora Gautier
Sound Technician: Florian Chauvet

For a year, the artist Blandine Brière and the director Guillaume Lavenant led a series of interviews, meetings and workshops around the theme of boxing in the Malakoff district of Nantes, investigating the histories, narratives and localisms of the sport. From this, the quintet of artists created a performance work combining documentary investigation, surrealistic sound design and live manipulated and performed samples of the acoustical indexes of boxing on sensory percussion drums.

The project injects and inflames the memory and physicality of boxing, and pays tribute to those who both practice as well as the coaches and mentors in the community.