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A MUSICAL TRANSMEDIA PROJECT CAPTURE AND REMIX THE WORLD LAUNCH / JUNE 16, 2015 - ARTE.TV/SOUNDHUNTERS #soundhunters A (RECORDED) SOUND IS LIKE A PICTURE OF OUR DAILY LIFE IT’S A FOOTPRINT IMAGINE WE CAN GRAB THESE “SOUND PICTURES” AND gather THEM TO EXPRESS OURSELves through a MUSICAL STORY? WHAT could WE LEARN ABOUT THE WORLD WE’re LIVing IN AND WHO WE ARE? arte.tv/soundhunters #soundhunters SOUNDHUNTERS is a special interactive documentary a stunning mix of documentary approach, playful tools and experience which aims to sample the world and set it to creative collaborative social network, SOUNDHUNTERS music. It's a playful tribute to a cultural remix that lays shakes up the genre boundaries. foundations for a proper language. A musical one. With SOUNDHUNTERS it is not enough to just open our eyes Through augmented documentary films and playful tools to understand our world but it also needs us to use our ears- SOUNDHUNTERS enables you to explore and listen to the an innocuous act that can bring us to a completely new world and to twist it. You'll be a viewer, a creator and a sensory experience. contributor, of a social and international music experience, all at once. CAPTURE & SOUNDS ARE FOOTPRINTS OF OUR r e i n v e n t CULTURES. WHO ARE WE? HOW DO WE the world LIVE? around you For many decades talented musicians hack the sounds of our daily lives in order to view the world with alternate ears. Political positioning, poetic hijacking, social thoughts, playful Credits reinvention... Experiences are infinite. Original concept by Nicolas Blies, François Le Gall, arte.tv/soundhunters Marion Guth, Stéphane Hueber-Blies & Beryl Koltz BECOME A SOUNDHUNTERS: Produced by a_BAHN and Camera Talk Productions FROM JUNE 16, 2015 THE INSTAGRAM OF SOUND with the participation of ARTE and SWR Graphism & web developments by Atelier Calico The SOUNDHUNTERS transmedia project unfolds on different communication supports to address multiple In partnership with SoundCloud, Native Instruments, audience. Understand, discover, try out, share... By offering Blend.io, Ohmforce, TSUGI and Les Inrocks #soundhunters arte.tv/soundhunters SOUNDHUNTERS APP TV DOC 52’ What we call the INSTAGRAM of sound! This app enables everyone to become a Throughout genuine music performances, two soundhunter, create music and share it. young musicians (KIZ) travel all around the world to meet eight renowned musicians who share with us how and why they turn the sounds of the world into music. #blixabargeld #matmos #matthewherbert #jmjarre #chassol #soundofnoise #bertolozzi #cosmosheldrake CONTESTS & ALBUM 4 INTERACTIve films 2 contests will boost the experience. YOUR TRACK ON 4 interactive short films about the sonic adventures of 4 ARTE is a mean to air your track on the end credits of renowned musicians. Each film gave birth to a genuine music the TV doc on Arte and THE ZOOLOOK REVISITED track. While watching the film, unlock the music track and ALBUM to be selected by Jean-Michel JARRE and be collect the related sounds to reinvent this sonic trip. featured on a worldwide distributed album. INTERACTIVE FILMS / TV DOCUMENTARY FILM / WEBAPP-BECOME A SOUNDHUNTER / CONTEST SOUNDHUNTERS - Interactive Films - 4 short interactive films about the creative adventures of 4 renowned musicians immersed in the heart of 4 megalopolis, looking for sounds and inspiration. Their encounters with urban minorities in Sao Paulo, Lagos, New York and Berlin lead to the creation of 4 unique musical compositions. At the end of each experience, the audience can create music with sounds captured by the artists in each city. (Also available on desktop, tablets and mobile) Official launch: June 16, 2015 arte.tv/soundhunters/watch Simonne Jones at Sao Paulo INTERACTIVE FILMS ARTISTS SIMONNE JONES While São Paulo continues to expand, the CITIES American artist Simonne Jones encounters Guarani Indians who struggle to keep their STORIES language, land and culture alive. At the heart of a city in mutation, Simonne captures the essence of 4 TRACKS these turmoils to put it into music. LUKE VIBERT MIKAEL SEIFU Mikael Seifu, an Ethiopian electronic music Luke Vibert, one of the pioneers of UK’s electronic producer, goes deep into the most populous music scene, rediscovers New York City through a African city, Lagos. He tries to better understand film experience paced by the words of poets and the unifying role of Pidgin English, the city's the melodies of musicians from around the world. unofficial lingua franca. arte.tv/soundhunters A mean to express our shared common humanity. DAEDELUS In Berlin, 19-year-old Tarik balances out his Film directors “I used mostly Jeremiah's guitar German-Turkish identities with his passion for sounds as that seemed like the heart boxing and transition to adulthood. Electronic BERLIN: Nora Mandray & Jason B. Kohl & soul of the whole New York trip. musician Daedelus reflects on Tarik's world as he NEW YORK: Antonino d’Ambrosio SAO PAULO: Pedro Watanabe et Lucas Bonolo When he was playing, we all visits the German capital to create a song inspired LAGOS: Emeka Ogboh seemed to fall into a trance, and I by its cultural mix. arte.tv/soundhunters/watch tried to recapture that with my track.” Luke Vibert INTERACTIVE FILMS / From there onwards, the door was wide open for SOUNDHUNTERS sound hunters. Effervescent tablets, a leaf in the wind, a coffee being poured, a Finnish phoneme, absolutely everything becomes likely to be recorded, - the movie transformed, manipulated and reinvented within a 52’ - HD - directed by Beryl Koltz musical context. They hunt urban and natural landscapes searching for sounds. The world itself is their musical instrument. By using everyday objects and recording the familiar sounds that surround us, they transform our everyday environment into an original musical creation. The name they chose for themselves: soundhunters. SOUNDHUNTERS is a musical documentary film that reveals, through the lens of a creative travelogue, the lives of “soundhunters”, or in other Thanks to an original staging, SOUNDHUNTERS words, renowned musicians who have all decided to offers spectators an encounter with multiple use sounds of the world as their primary source of renowned artists from various generations and sound (such as natural, mechanical, everyday musical backgrounds, such as Matthew Herbert, objects…). Pier re Schaeffer, father of Matmos, Chassol, Jean-Michel Jarre, Blixa Bargeld electroacoustic music, theorized in his “Treaty of or Cosmo Sheldrake. Musical Objects” (1977) the idea that any object emitting a sound can be the basis for the creation of music. Following Schaeffer, many musical movements and numerous artists have, to this day, retained this philosophy of considering everything ON AIR that surrounds us as a potential source of musical Saturday, September 19, 2015 creation. arte.tv/soundhunters M. C. Schmidt from #soundhunters INTERACTIVE FILMS / “For centuries we have been more - as musician - notes hunters and suddenly, at the mid of 20th century, we became all sound hunters.” Jean-Michel Jarre ON AIR Saturday, September 19, 2015 arte.tv/soundhunters #soundhunters LET THE MAGIC HAPPEN! TURN SOUNDS OF YOUR DAILY LIFE INTO MUSIC AND GET THE POWER TO EXPRESS YOURSELF TODAY LIKE MANY MUSICIANS arte.tv/soundhunters #soundhunters INTERACTIVE FILMS / TV DOCUMENTARY FILM / SOUNDHUNTERS APP / WEBAPP THE INSTAGRAM OF SOUND: A SIMPLE & PLAYFUL TOOL SOUNDHUNTERS APP is a connected app (desktop/iOS/Android), simple and fun that puts the sounds you have recorded or chosen in our database into music. Fun and creative, the app has been designed for a wide audience: no musical skills are necessary to enjoy it! Easily create your music and share it with the world. SOUNDHUNTERS APP is also a social network for sound hunters: a mean to grab and use more sounds from everywhere. The app is based on REC and CREATE sections. INTERACTIVE FILMS / TV DOCUMENTARY FILM / REC Geolocalization of sounds and intuitive tagging system allow to create samples on the go in order to nourish an open source and collaborative soundbank FILMS INTERACTIFS / TV DOCUMENTARY FILM / CREATE A music generator built for a wide audience (non-professional) in order to hack and reinvent the world we live in... Create music while choosing sounds from the REC soundbank & by filtering it using multiple # arte.tv/soundhunters/create INTERACTIVE FILMS / TV DOCUMENTARY FILM / THE INSTAGRAM OF SOUND SOUNDBANK A HUGE WORLDWIDE A POWERFUL ”ENGINE-GENERATED MUSIC” TO CREATE ORIGINAL MUSIC FLOWS FOR SOUNDHUNTERS A SOCIAL NETWORK A HUB FOR ALL OUR CONTENTS INTERACTIVE FILMS / TV DOCUMENTARY FILM / WEBAPP-BECOME A SOUNDHUNTER / SOUNDHUNTERS also provides non musicians and expert ones with meaningful contests. Thanks to unique partnerships within Jean-Michel jarre will the music industry, SOUNDHUNTERS extends the user experience: choose 6 tracks among EXPERT userS’ creations for a #1 YOUR TRACK ON ARTE TV u n i q u e m u s i c a l b u m The most popular track - generated within the CREATE section of DISTRIBUTED WORLDWIDE the SOUNDHUNTERS platform - will be aired as the soundtrack of the end credits of the 52’ SOUNDHUNTERS documentary film, In order to aim a “Pro” audience, we have developed in September 19, 2015. Thanks to our easy-to-use and playful app, partnership with Native Instruments a professional Artist anyone can create music in a blink of an eye and be elected as SoundKit to use in professional softwares and hardwares. We the winner track! will also organised Soundhunter’s Collaborative Nights with 2 french company “Ohmforce”. #2 YOUR TRACK SELECTED BY JEAN- CONTEST MICHEL JARRE FOR THE “ZOOLOOk REVISITED” DIGITAL ALBUM The SOUNDHUNTERS project celebrates the use of sounds from arte.tv/soundhunters/CONTEST our daily life to make creative music. This is also a tribute to the «Zoolook» album released in 1984 by Jean-Michel Jarre.