Bio The Preacher

Mathieu Rossier, a.k.a The Preacher, is a franco-swiss electronic music producer who has been composing and performing live since 1995.

A resident of the Des Sons Animés French studio, and with over 20 immersive concerts to his credit, The Preacher is one of the few artists to compose and perform exclusively in 3-d space, and for 3-d space. Accustomed to live marathons in spatialized sound, the Preacher offers immersive performances lasting several hours, between futuristic and experimental soundscapes, and organic and mental techno tribe.

Bio Maidova

Manon Boucher (aka maidova) is a 24-year-old artist and creative technologist from Lyon, France, with a strong interest in digital art and design.

In her work, she explores how to capture the vibrational essence of a dancing body through digital tools. She focuses her research on listening to sensations in order to confront them with digital devices. With movement and the body at the heart of her work, she explores different ways to make the viewer more active in their experience, making it more personal and therefore more memorable. It is in this approach that she likes to mix narration, interaction and visual creation.

Synopsis "The Edge of Us"

The duo Preacher & Maidova seeks to create experiences using the latest immersive technologies in real time, through visuals, interactivity and spatialized sound.

They want to bring spectators to become actors in their experiences by giving them the power to shake up and change the universe around them.

The goal is to encourage spectators to unite and anchor themselves in the present moment. By acting together and choosing to stay together, spectators allow our natural environment to gradually regenerate, until nature takes back its rightful place in our world.

"The Edge of Us" is an immersive experience that invites the public to question the necessity and power of common action to provoke the behavioural change that our environment needs. It is an invitation to rediscover the beauty of the world around us, and to break away from the infernal pace of everyday life to reflect on the fragile balance between Nature and Civilization.

Credits: 

Written and composed by The Preacher, image direction by Maidova, mixing and mastering by Éric Simonet.