Émilie Simon – Beautiful Bedford Avenue Sessions and Her “Bionic Arm”.
I skipped upon this beautiful artist, Émilie Simon, this morning courtesy of Synthtopia and Create Digital Music’s Twitter pages. Check out Ms. Simon’s musical mastery and her delicious brew of Tenori-On and the sweet Doepher Dark Energy synth ( which I envy).
The most luscious detail is the sweet controller that she wears on her wrist – according to Create Digital Music, the fabulous ”wrist-strapped controller is Cyrille Brissot’s invention, aptly named “The Brissot.”
Above photo by Elizabeth Sentianin from The Indie Handbook (and her Myspace page) – here is an excerpt from an interview with Émilie in The Indie Handbook where she gives us a brief explaination of her “Arm”:
“So, basically it’s a remote control and it’s triggering effects on my software wirelessly, and I have it on my arm. I’ve had it since the first album, from the beginning, but we’ve had different systems. This is the third generation. At the time, we didn’t have all this wireless Play Station stuff like we have now that you can use for musical things. So we were using another system, but this one was built last summer, actually.”
Read the rest here.
The Brissot reminds me delightfully of something out of Delicatessen, Bladerunner or Brazil. Anyway – I’m new to the world of Émilie Simon, so I’d now like to sit back w/ my coffee for a deeper peek…have a pleasing week, everyone.
Find her highly fabulous YouTube channel with lots of gorgeous clips here.
Written by Tara on March 5, 2010 at 10:11 am
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Thanks for the link. I love to see Emilie getting the attention she deserves.
But to give credit where it’s due, the photo was taken by Elizabeth Sentianin (a brilliant photographer, based on what I’ve seen) and borrowed from Emilie’s MySpace.
Thank you Eric! I’ve made the correction. Lovely to meet you & your blog!
tara x
WOW!
After wrestling and fighting with gear all day, this tasty posted treat was great to see. Thanks for passing it along!
;^D
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