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Vincent
Independant R&D engineer and artist, crafting digital instruments for audio/visual live performances, installations and interactive applications. I post some of my works and news on this site.
Da Vinci bridge and bamboos
I recently built a structure with bamboos, inspired by the “Da Vinci bridge” (which is a specific simpler case of a reciprocal frame structure). Bamboos are neat: they grow fast, they are cheap (some people will just be happy if you cut theirs for free), they are quite strong and flexible, they’re relatively immune to rotting, though they’re organic and bio-degradable, but they are not always easy to work with when it comes to dimensioning…
The Brain Orchestra @ JIM’2025
Présentation de “The Brain Orchestra“, un instrument de sonification de l’activité neuronale développé en collaboration avec Sébastien Wolf, chercheur à l’Institut de Biologie de l’ENS.
C’est demain, durant les Journées d’Informatique Musicale, organisées cette année sur le campus de la Doua à Lyon, par le GRAME, l’AFIM, l’INRIA et l’INSA de Lyon.
Cinematon @ Nuit Blanche 2025
Le Cinématon sera dévoilé ce samedi 7 juin sur la façade de la maison Raspail à Cachan, dans le cadre de la Nuit Blanche 2025, organisée par la mairie de Paris.
Si vous voulez, vous aussi, faire votre cinéma, venez donc au Cinématon, c’est gratuit et c’est très facile!
Cinematon
“For one evening, become the actors and actresses of a black and white film, in short sequences recorded on the Cinematon booth: it’s as easy as a photo booth! These mini-films will be brought to life thanks to a video-mapping projection, that integrates them live on the building’s windows. Whether you want to mimic a romantic scene, a Western face-off, a burlesque stunt or the fateful moment of a thriller, don’t hesitate to come in costume!”
Le Cinématon is an interactive audiovisual installation, with video-mapping on the facade of a building. The public is invited to come along and record short sequences on the Cinematon arcade booth, using a video-matting technique (a neural-network algorithm version of the cinema’s green screen).
These sequences are then replayed in the building’s windows, whose shutters open and close virtually on a range of picturesque settings: the alien planet of a sci-fi movie, an underwater backdrop, a western saloon, a disco club, or with typical cinematic effects : stop-motion, reversed shots, etc.
Behind each of the building’s windows plays a different version of Scott Joplin’s famous “Maple Leaf Rag”: on a banjo, a church organ, steel-drums, accordion, double bass, drums and theremin (among other less conventional instruments). This gives rise to unpredictable musical collisions as the shutters open randomly, paying an odd and heartfelt tribute to the master of rag time.
Direction & programming : Vincent Goudard
Production : AIAGOS – www.aiagos.com
Commission : Nuit Blanche / Mairie de Paris, Mairie de Cachan.
Special thanks
Anthony Rushforth for helping me with neural net programming, Marc Caira for helping to cut out the arcade machine, Aaron Jonah Lewis who kindly let me use their fantastic banjo version of Joplin’s Maple Leaf Rag (go check their bandcamp!), Jean-Jacques Jaffredo, Serge de Laubier, Gladys Brégeon, Olga and Anatole for their precious advices.
Credits
Main music theme: Scott Joplin’s “Maple Leaf Rag” (1899); Aaron Jonah Lewis : Maple Leaf Rag (Banjo version); Some sounds excerpts from freesound.org: AlienXXX, LukaCafuka, ohrpilot, Nimlos, Pfannkuchn, klankbeeld – thanks to them!
The Cinematon was premiered during the Grand Paris’ “Nuit Blanche” festival, at the Maison Raspail in Cachan, on 7th June 2025… under a stormy and rainy weather! ⛈️ ☔️ ️
Media
Video to come soon. Technical rider on request.
Cinématon en fabrication
Quelques images de fabrication du Cinématon, une installation A/V interactive qui sera jouée à la prochaine Nuit Blanche, le 7 juin 2025, au château Raspail à Cachan.
Original arduino duemilanove inside, the italian one!
Real-time video matting in Max
I was testing out some real-time video matting in Max/MSP, that we developped for an ongoing project (edit: the Cinematon is out!), and realized that “sunset.jpg” demo file was a nice match for this memorable dialogue in Romero’s “Night of the living dead”… If it weren’t for all those zombies outside, it could have been such a lovely campfire scene!
The Brain Orchestra @ CFA’2025
Présentation de “The Brain Orchestra“, un instrument de sonification de l’activité neuronale développé en collaboration avec Sébastien Wolf, chercheur à l’Institut de Biologie de l’ENS.
C’est aujourd’hui durant le CFA de la SFA – Société Française d’Acoustique sur le Campus Pierre et Marie Curie de Sorbonne Université.
FIB_R à Marseille — 18 avril 2025
Performance, conférence et discussion par FORAGES (Gladys Brégeon et Vincent Goudard) qui présentera FIB_R dans le cadre des Journées d’Ouverture Scientifique (JOS) orientées sur les arts numériques.
vendredi 18 avril 2025 à 13h30
Plus d’infos sur la performance : :
gladysbregeon.net/oeuvres/fib-r
vincentgoudard.com/fib_r
Diving into unknown pleasures
Il y a quelque chose d’intrigant dans la pochette de l’album “Unknown Pleasures” de Joy Division (1979). On attribue souvent cette image à Peter Saville, designer pour le label Factory Records à l’époque de la sortie de l’album, mais il n’a fait que mettre en blanc sur noir un dessin déjà paru dans le Scientific American, une dizaine d’années plus tôt.