Murcof + Simon Geilfus

A live experimental movie performance in collaboration with the mexican music producer Murcof. An immersive, cinematic and physical experience. This project is a 4 year long collaboration between Fernando Corona and me. Using a wide semi-transparent screen, the project puts the visuals between the audience and the performers creating an unique audio visual experience. A project produced byNicolas Boritch/Antivj.

Some of the early version of the show featured a stage design created in collaboration with Joanie Lemercier.
It has taken the music closer to where the inspiration to make it came from, evoking macro and micro universes, which I also try to do musically; there’s a giant spider like creature that stretches its arms each time the music explodes, there’s bacteria holding hands and working in groups whilst maintaining their individuality, there are tons of stars that swirl around and become comets, rays of light that become a network of neurons – it’s perfect. It’s at times literal and at times abstract, leaving enough room for personal interpretation from the audience, and for us, too, as each time we play we get to see a different show from the stage.”
FERNANDO CORONA (Murcof)

"Murcof’s music is quiet and subtly violent at the same time, and he does that in a really unique way. His work has a huge narrative potential, leaving a lot of space for interpretation. This is obviously something that makes collaborating with him a real pleasure.

Trough long periods of research, experimentations and development and thanks to several residencies we created together a somehow unique approach to audio visual performance. Over the last few years, we have been presenting this project in festivals and theaters all around the globe from Futuresonic in Manchester to MUTEK in Montreal along with the digital art museum of Beijing and Itau Cultural in Sao Paulo.

It was really important from start to leave some space for improvisation and quite obvious that no software on the market would offer that sort of flexibility. It's been using several versions of a software I’m developing especially for this project. It started as a small bugy prototype written in Processing that I used for our first gig and evolved over the years into several c++ applications that I’m still using today. I’m working on new features every time I can and, and even if it is a really technical aspect of the project, it does bring up new stuff for which to experiment every time."