CirK 2.2 is a sound/movement based project I’ve been working on for almost 5 years now. The origin of this project came from a desire to communicate my emotions and my creativity through circus arts but with a particular desire to compose, by myself, the music and sound environment with the only instrument I have, my body. This project was made possible thanks to the financial support of the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.

The intention with this project is to question the circus arts and new technologies, using the movements, acrobatics of the artist and circus props to generate a sound atmosphere. With the technologies, each movement is translated into a specific sound wave, adjusting to the individual characteristics of each artist and circus discipline. Just like a dancer’s brain generates movement in response to various incoming information such as music, I am using the technologies to reproduce auditory-motor integration but in the opposite direction, so that movements and proprioception will represent the incoming information that will generate sounds, timbres and music. The intention behind this project is to create a universe where the artist and the circus discipline are an integral part of musical creation. In service of the music, the artist is both the initiat...