SYNCHRONIES
An immersive 360 performance into the sounds of the earth
YEAR: 2023
ART DIRECTION: Salome Bazin
PRODUCTION: Cellule Studio
PARTNERS: Sound Earth Legacy,
Kinda Studios
VENUE: MIRA Festival Barcelona
The cultivation of environmental and collective empathy is essential to sustainability. Music is one of the most powerful tools to communicate and create empathy. Synchronies , which premiered at MIRA Festival, is an invitation to dive into the sonic connection between our bodies and the earth, to help us better understand the planet we live in and inhabit everyday.
Synchronies aim to engage audiences on the urgency of preserving the sonic health of our planet in a 360 sound symbiotic journey on the impact of sound pollution on humans and other mammals.
Curation : Sound Earth Legacy
Neuroaesthetic research: Kinda Studios
Creative technologist: Simon Haenggi
Composer: Arthur Astier
Mix/ Sonification: Antoine Bertin
Photography: Leafhopper
Sponsored by British Council
DIOR TEARS POP UP
Ethereal lighting scapes for Dior men capsule collection
YEAR: 2023
ART DIRECTION: Dior Men, My Beautiful City
PRODUCTION: Light Electric
VENUE: Phonic Vinyl Factory London
Dior men presented its capsule collection with cult label Denim Tears with a series of pop-ups around the world featuring large inflatable installations. Working as lead creative for Light Electric, I advised the lighting scape of the scenography, managed by production company My Beautiful City, creating a daylight and organic lighting playing with the idea of presence and shadows, in a spatial optical play.
Producer/ Director: Jon Hose
Crew: Spencer Thomasz, Jo Humphries, Jai Chayne, Noli Cavolli, Bec Mckenzie
AV: Carl Acornav
Photography: Gareth Williams
YOUR FUTURE POWERS
A journey into the future of beauty
YEAR: 2022
ART DIRECTION: Salome Bazin
PRODUCTION: Imprudence, Cellule Studio
CLIENT: Helena Rubinstein
LOCATION: Shanghai
From the micro to the macro, Your Future Power is an interactive experience showcasing the concept of cellular reprogramming to audience members through a digital artwork and light scenography. The gaze of visitors activates the cellular reprogramming phenomenon, with each of their face movements connected to the digital display. From the centre of the screen, a ripple wave effect occurs, pushing particles outwards to converge into a digital self: they represent cells, reprogramming the skin from within.
A commission for Helena Rubinstein 100 years anniversary in Shanghai, with agency Imprudence in Paris.
Agency: Imprudence
Creative technology and direction: Salome Bazin
Creative assistant: Yildiz Tufan
Programmer Future Powers: Marc Winklhofer
Programmer Future of Beauty: Sebastiano Barbieri
Creative consultant: Lucy Hardcastle
Lighting consultant: Cecilia Gonzalez
Face consultant: Rebecca Wordingham
VFX: Rob Heppell
Sound: Thomas Hale
ECHOES
An app that lets you listen to your heart sounds
YEAR: 2021
ART DIRECTION: Salome Bazin
PRODUCTION: Cellule Studio
PARTNERS: King’s College London, Maastricht University
Echoes is an app which captures the sound of your heart. Designed to be intuitive and easy to use, its clean lines and colour palette make the experience meditative, reflecting on the variety of human rhythms.
A collaboration between science and poetic exploration, the app is a useful educational tool to help people learn about their hearts and hear what different people’s hearts sound like. Echoes has been used by more than 20,000 people across the globe, creating a one of a kind database for music composition, and rhythm exploration.
Creative direction and production: Salomé Bazin
Scientific direction: Prof Pablo Lamata and Prof Frits Prinzen
Programming: Andrew Fender, Danilo Figueirido
Photographer: Pascal Schonlau
Creative consultant: Josué Graesslin
Videographer: Maxime Tissot
Make up artist: Olivia Cochrane
Models: Sarah Baugsto, Alice Pan
Dancers:Gala Moreau, Darra He, Noemie Ha
Music: Arthur Astier
KALOSTASIS
Kalostasis, an interactive artwork into human flow
YEAR: 2019
ART DIRECTION: Salome Bazin in collaboration with Lucy Hardcastle
PRODUCTION: Cellule Studio
PARTNERS: King’s College London
VENUE: V&A Museum
Kalostatis is an interactive installation enacting the unseen flow of the heart. The installation is simulating in 360° the beauty and complexity of the constant flow and motion that keeps us alive, its various extremes and our body’s ability to attain a state of balance, an equilibrium key to our health. This concept of equilibrium within the heart flow can be found throughout nature, raising questions about the dynamic rhythms and flows that rules our world.
Kalostasis premiered at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London as part of the London Design Festival 2019, and part of the Venice Biennale ECC architecture exhibition in 2021
RANDOM REVOLUTION
A journey into the quantum world and randomness.
YEAR: 2019
ART DIRECTION: Salome Bazin in collaboration with Cecilia Gonzalez
PRODUCTION: Cellule Studio
PARTNERS: Lancaster University
VENUE: Barbican centre
Random Revolution: an immersive journey into the quantum world, exploring the laws that are governing the internet, our lives and nature. Powered by quantum physics research at Lancaster University and commissioned by the Barbican Life Rewired Hub. The installation graphics are powered by a ‘quantum tunnelling device’ creating pure randomness from quantum physics.`
Random Revolution premiered at Barbican Centre, supported by Royal Society.
Creative direction and production: Salome Bazin
Creative consultant/ Production assistant: Cecilia Gonzalez
Scientific direction: Pr Rob Young
Curator: James Upton
Programmer: Will Young
Soundscape: Arthur Astier
Motion assistant: Sabina Islas
Photography: Gareth Williams
Additional visuals: Garth McKee, Gabriel Thomas.
Special thanks to KitMapper. Project supported by the Royal Society and Lancaster University.
DIGITAL UMBILICAL
A poetic technologic experience of dance.
YEAR: 2019
ART DIRECTION: Salome Bazin with Body Intelligence Collective
PRODUCTION: Body Intelligence Collective
PARTNERS: Dansathon
VENUE: Sadler’s Wells Lilian Baylis
How do we truly connect to others in the age of machines and digital connection? How can we use interactive media to deepen the connection to our body and to enhance intimacy between a performer and an audience? Repurposing technological tools of bio-data control and measurement, Digital Umbilical wants to reclaim the poetic, rhythmic and creative aspect of bio-rhythms and body cycles, enabling audiences to reconnect to their bodies.
Digital Umbilical premiered at Lilian Baylis Studio Sadlers Wells in 2019, with performance in Liege and Maison de la Danse, Lyon.
Concept and realisation by Body Intelligence Collective.
Designer: Salomé Bazin
Producer: Lara Buffard
Creative technologist: Simon Haenggi
Programmer: Jon Rowe
Performer: Adam Seid Tahir
Choreographer: Renaud Wiser
Performer: Rosanne Briens
Composer: Arthur Astier
Photography: Maria Lax
Video: Laurent Liotardo
Supported by BNB Paribas, Arts Council UK
TIDES
The essential massager for lifetime pleasure.
YEAR: 2023
ART DIRECTION: Salome Bazin in collaboration with Giulia Tomasello
PRODUCTION: Cellule Studio
PARTNERS: Design Age Institute
VENUE: Design Museum
Tides, a sexual wellness brand celebrating the power of pleasure and sexual health in midlife. Supported by the Design Age Institute and showcased at the Design Museum.
Listening to the stories of 100s of women and their experiences in menopause, we developed Tides essential massager, a unique vibrator for a new kind of pleasure.
Tides massager is designed to stimulate all erogenous areas, increasing pleasure and overall body awareness. It’s not about performative sex, it’s all about sensuality and intimate care. Taking time to explore sexual pleasure using breath, vibration, touch and awareness can shift patterns of conscious behaviour and intimacy with the self or a partner. Tides facilitate pleasure, supporting confidence for women as their bodies change.
Creative director : Salome Bazin
Co-founder : Giulia Tomasello
Community partner: Eleanor Mills
Scientific consultant: Dr Jian Chen
Engineering : Jonathan Casey
Electronics/PCB: Sean Malikides
Photographer: Eeva Rinne
Videographer: Michael Fostik
Dancers: Company of Elders Sadler’s Wells
Models: Susanne, Gaia
Special thanks to Carla Donati, Yildiz Bliss.
Supported by Design Age Institute
