A pioneer of “made in France” house, since 1992, within the duo Motorbass formed with Philippe Zdar, then solo – Super Discount (1996), Tempovision (2000)… – Etienne de Crécy has also worked at the forefront of the stage representation of electro with the Square Cube installation designed in 2007 with the architects-scenographers Pier Schneider and François Wunschel. If this scintillating cubic scaffolding will be one of the attractions of the “Electro”
exhibition, the former Versaillais, born in Lyon in 1969, will take advantage of the event to present, on April 13, his new live system, Space Echo, in the Pierre-Boulez room of the Philharmonie de Paris.
“I work as much on staging my concerts as on setting them to music,” insists Etienne de Crecy, in his very stylish recording studio on rue du Faubourg-Poissonnière (Paris 9th).
In the company of videographer and special effects creator Armand Béraud and two graphic designers employed by the software company Smode, the French touch figure is not busy producing a new album – the latest, B.E.D., recorded with the English Baxter Dury and Delilah Holliday, was released in 2018 – but to the design of the audiovisual creations to inhabit the installation of his new show.
Designed with lighting designer Alexandre Lebrun, the device must surround the musician and his machines with four panels of LED screens. Designed with lighting designer Alexandre Lebrun, from the LightLab agency, the device must surround the musician and his machines with four panels of LED screens, apparently transparent, capable of rotating to form shapes around him offering astonishing perspectives and relief effects to the videos that will be integrated there.
“It’s not a way of illustrating music,” explains Etienne de Crécy. On the contrary, I remixed a selection of my most listened to tracks, so that they adapt to this new visual tool. » If Space Echo makes a nod to the echo chamber of the same name
