Bio
Eric and François meet in 2006; their research, projects and realizations echo and complete one another. Follows a storm of ideas and projects from which they design and build «Vélo d’appart», first exhibited at the City Sonics festival in Mons ,then at the «festival des inventeurs d’instruments: Octopus» in Paris. Together they create an Aquaphony playground for the «Pass: Parc d’Aventures Scientifiques», and numerous other installations. Through these creations and regular interventions in one another’s work, their friendship and Evolplay grows. Since 2008, The Heartscopes project, fusions their universes and skills as that of many others. |
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Eric Van Osselaer
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François Cys
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Eric Van Osselaer studies Fine Arts in Dun Laoghaire IADT and explores different Medias before beginning to design participative sound installations. In the early 90’s, he develops musical sculptures activated by wind and tide, then builds numerous instruments (Corneturlute à ballon, Beach flutes bagpipes or Musikorizontal cycle). The embryo of the Orgabits project rose from these researches in which key concepts from a fabric of theories, and books like «ways of seeing» or «le Macroscope», led to his exploration of sound production processes then experiment with construction techniques he will use later in different inventions. In 2003 his Soufflet géant à flûtes and Balapluie are shown in Mons. Eric and DJ Load give Gratted Silicon Valley performances and the evolutive polyphonic Balaplay is exhibited at Féron Arts and Lille 2004, then at the Folies de Maubeuge 2005. In 2006 his Orgabits concert and Musiscopes exhibition atract attention at the "Octopus musical instruments invention festival" |
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François Cys studies cabinet-making and object
design. «through transformation of daily From 2004 to 2006, he designs and builds l’Ascenseur à flûtes, Organes sonores and Vélo orgue. Since 2008, he develops Cyclophone installations. He created and built the universe of « A contre-courant » with the street theater company "Odile Pinson", and in 2009, began to collaborate with the collective «Nous sommes tous de passages» in Tournai.
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