Step into an imaginary house made of music and memory. 

Produced by Envision Management and Production, the Bell Orchestre Sound House is a multi-participant, interactive audiovisual installation that summons the sounds of Bell Orchestre’s 2021 album, House Music. Directed by AATOAA (Vincent Morisset and Caroline Robert) Sound House brings Bell Orchestre’s music to life in a new space.

This summer at the Société des arts technologiques, visitors can wander through an illusory, abstracted home brought to life by picking and placing an array of domestic and sentimental artefacts around the room. This house transforms through the interactions of its new inhabitants, as they set off sequences and climb into the mix, co-composing in real-time their own spatialized musical score pulled from the DNA of the original recording. Melodies, moods and views are triggered: the weather changes, seasons shift, and time and place slide by inside its windows.

By picking and placing an array of domestic and sentimental artefacts around the room, the Sound House transforms through the actions of participants. Melodies, moods and views are triggered: the weather changes, seasons shift and time and place slide by outside its windows. Evocative of the country chalet where House Music was recorded, with band members living together over several weeks, the installation captures an abstracted in-situ rendering of this domestic space, while also invoking the affective, communal creative feeling—what the band calls the “social ecosystem,” that formed during this time. The experiential design, with its collective, participatory essence celebrates spontaneous and accidental, collaborative and democratic responses—recombinant and always unique.

The exhibition is running from June 7 to July 27 at the Société des arts technologiques. All the details and ticket link can be found on the SAT’s event page here: https://sat.qc.ca/en/events/bell-orchestre-sound-house-an-interactive-musical-score