Around three gardens
Dia 070 - press
 

Libération - 14 décember 2002

  

Le Monde - October 3, 2003

 

Creation: a bewitching trip
Sitting in a circle around an impressive (for the uninitiated) technological device, the protagonists of the new creation Around 3 Gardens proposed by the trumpet player Serge Adam, evolve in real time through the tools of Eric Vernhes. The project follows Haute Fréquence 4.1 (High Frequency), created and recorded at Glaz'Art in November 2001, which bore an album of the same name (Quoi de neuf docteur/Night & Day). The musicians come from the galaxy of new contemporary jazz : the pianist Benoît Delbecq (a member of the composer's forum Hask and Serge Adam's trio Les Amants de Juliette), the guitarist Gilles Coronado, a new member for the samplers, bass drum and drum station and leader of Urban Mood and active member of Thôt, whose ease and purpose are always renewed, Marc Chalosse on keyboards and samplers and Django Hartlap on spatialisation. In the Voûtes (an anex of the Frigos, a former industrial warehouse converted into artists lofts), lit by a long string of candles, the atmosphere is spiritual. The futuristic team of improvisers invents the sound paste under the visual impulse of the images under construction. And vice-versa. In turns, electronic treatment, musical improvisations and video elements volley with a pulsating ball in a performance conceived like a story. To complete yourself. Dominique Queillé

Around 3 gardens - Performance Bagnolet/L'Echangeur
On paper, an « interactive performance between sound and visual matter » sounds nebulous. But when the performers are inventive musicians like the trumpet player Serge Adam, the guitarist Gilles Coronado, the pianist Benoît Delbecq and the keyboard player Marc Chalosse, you're sure to get great results in the end. Images by Eric Vernhes, spatialisation by Djengo Hartlap.
Télérama (Events) - October 3, 2003
MIX/ Oct. 2, 3, 4, 2003 at L'Echangeur (Bagnolet F93) Around 3 gardens. A computerized installation as well as a live concert and a video projection. Musicians improvise between jazz and electronic music; a video artist tells a story through samples and sequences projected onto a big screen in real time. The sound responds to the image with an absence of hierarchy, while the audience circles around the performers. A highly interactive collective improvisation. Cathy Blisson
 
Aden - December 2002
  December, 11.-14. at the Voûtes, Paris
These are fearless members of the Parisian jazz scene. Seen and heard in various groups, they come together here to present a premier where jazz and electronics overlap without falling into a fashion mode. Its musicians are Serge Adam (trumpet), Gilles Coronado (guitar, electronics), Benoît Delbecq, Marc Chalosse (keyboards, samplers). An approach that wouldn't be the same without the interventions of Eric Vernhes and Djengo Hartlap (video and distribution).