As a part of the fifth edition of Showroom of Contemporary Sound festival, Music Showroom SC and Mochvara Gallery are presenting French artist Pierre Bastien. At the semicircular hall of the Theatre &TD, Bastien will perform for two days: an impro session with musicians Franz Hautzinger and Alen Sinkauz will take place on Tuesday, May 2nd at 9:00 pm while his solo performance ‘’Quiet Motors’’ is scheduled for Wednesday, May 3rd at 9:30 pm.

The framework of the performance ‘’Quiet Motors’’ is a colorful, rhythmical machinery whose visual and auditive elements completely occupy the visitor’s senses. Only seemingly simple, Bastien’s constructions out of Meccano material hide complexity in details committed to the accuracy of each performance. Hand-made electromotors and paper instruments are the main components of the machine. Their alternate and unsynchronized movements are gradually building up the sound composition making it unique every time. Paper straps are flowing under varying air stream intensity, creating sound by touching the membrane in unpredictable intervals. As described by Pierre Bastien, the visitor becomes the explorer – by listening and watching, he discovers versatile sound dimensions, as if he was walking inside the composition.