Jean-François ZYGEL
Pianist, improviser, composer, professor at the Conservatory of Paris, producer of "La boîte à musique" on French TV and many other creative activities.
"I follow closely the innovations in music and Karlax seems to be a new instrument very well designed and adapted to new expressions of digital arts."
Philippe GEISS
Saxophonist, composer, professor to the Academy of Strasbourg in France.
"Karlax is an incredible link between music and visual arts, this magic wand redefines our expressivity. Gestures become sounds, and sounds connect with images. It is such a fun experience to feel the sounds spinning around the audience following your gestures and to see images come alive from your fingertips. For the first time, the artist can master in realtime the development of a movie! And this is just a start, my imagination alreday feeds numerous projects that will soon be achieved thanks to Karlax. It is an amazing dream machine..."
http://www.myspace.com/geissphilippe
Hervé DIASNAS
Choreographer, dancer, musician
“Karlax: and the dance becomes the master of musical work. Controller where the movement is king.
A playing partner with who dance leads and projects music and sound worlds at will.”
Tom MAYS
Composer, interpreter and professor associated in the class of New Technologies Appliquées to the Composition to the Higher National Conservatory for Music of Paris - specialist in musical computing.
http://tmays.free.fr
http://karlax.tommays.fr
Dj DEEP
DJ - Record Producer of House music and Deeply Rooted House
"With the depletion of MIDI controller, Karlax opens a new world. It will help to release some frustration such as the desire to see concerts, to live music other than with turntables, machines, etc. At first, I wondered how I would use all these controllers… but the more you use it, the more you realize that you need it more, that your fingers are faster than your mind and that's what is great. If you assign a TB303 emulation at the inertial unit of the Karlax, you will find yourself doing modulations you couldn't have done or thought with your hands: Karlax forestalls you in the ideas of composition… One can become a virtuoso of other things, other emotions."
http://www.djdeep.com/
Sir ALICE
Singer, researcher, performer
"Karlax is an organic instrument that is as one with his interpreter, it's super intuitive and awesome on stage. But I found out, working in the studio with Karlax, that it is foremost an instrument of composition, it is inspiration and idea generator.
New architectures, previously hidden, appear suddenly, it's super exciting.”
http://www.myspace.com/siralice
JACKSON HCB
Performer
JACKSON & His Computer Band
http://www.myspace.com/jacksonand
Karlax: "A new mechatronic bone for a bright new future"
Jean-Christophe POTVIN
Karlax player, arranger, broadcast radio author & producer, sound designer and recording engineer
Jean-Christophe is an INSAS graduate in Broadcasting and Social Communication. For the last ten years he has been working as a Sound Designer for Teatridithalia, a reknowned theater in Milan, Italia. He is perfectly bilingual French-Italian and spends his time between Brussels and Milan.
http://www.myspace.com/jeanchristophepotvin
Romain MORETTO
Comedian, musician and multimedia designer
" Karlax is not only a musical instrument, but also it is the multimedia controller who allows not to be confined any more behind a computer to make of the computing and to grind buttons but to be in instrumentalist's position.
It is a continuation of the body and there is a real pleasure to use it. "
Stéphane OERTLI
Stage director, actor, musician, performer
"At the center of the body, as the spine is, handled with the knees and pelvis in the axis such as Japanese sword, Karlax allows, not to granulate a sound, an image or a light, but to become this sound, this image, this light, beyond all conscience. First instrument dedicated to electronic music, Karlax refines, through physical impulse, each emotion of the interpreter. With Karlax, the first instrument of the 21st century, the body has never been so close to the sound and image. As an instrument, Karlax is comparable to its famous cousin, the violin. I have faith in it. 'Move it'"
Olivier SENS
Double bass player, composer, software developer
Internationally known double bass player and developper of interactive software USINE, for which he received a lot of international awards.
Jean LOCHARD
Composer, Computer music designer and Teacher at Ircam
Daniel FIGOLS-CUEVAS
Composer
Daniel Figols-Cuevas studied cello, physical sciences at the UB and composition at the ESMuC with Luis Naon. He continued his studies at the CNSM of Paris, in the class of Stefano Gervasoni. His works have been performed by the Neue Vocalsolisten, the Orchestre de Lorraine and the NEM.
Matteo FRANCESCHINI
Composer
Matteo Franceschini studied composition at the Milan Conservatory. He perfected his skills at the Santa Cecila Academy of Rome and Ircam. He has been awarded numerous prizes, received commissions in Italy, France and several international festivals.
He created works for theater, soundtracks and multimedia tools.
For the 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 seasons, he was appointed composer in residence at the Orchestre National d’Ile de France and at the Philharmonic Academy of Rome.
http://www.matteofranceschini.com/
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Philippe TOMAS
Clarinetist, Computer Aided Music professor at the Conservatoire de Vincennes and intervening in schools.
"The CAM workshop that I lead is for teenagers (10-18yr) musicians or not wanting to learn to manage a digital audio workstation as a tool for sound and music creation.
Students use the recorded sound as an sound object that they manipulate, move, duplicate, grow, shrink, and combine with other objects (use of virtual instruments) and musical instruments.
The Karlax will allow students to present their sound creations as live performance, keeping a greater freedom of expression."
Luis NAON
Composer, professor at the Paris Conservatoire
Born in La Plata, Argentina, in 1961, Luis Naon studied music at the Universidad Nacional in La Plata, Universidad Católica Argentina in Buenos Aires, and at the CNSM of Paris with Guy Reibel, Laurent Cuniot, Daniel Teruggi, Sergio Ortega and Horacio Vaggione.
Since 1991, he is professor of Composition and New Technologies at the Paris Conservatoire.
http://www.luis-naon.com/
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Francis FABER
Composer, electroacoustic musician
Francis Faber is an artist inventing and playing with new digital tools.
His specialty is between live music and multimedia and in situ events.
Composer and teacher, he leads of La Grande Fabrique in Dieppe and the FabriqueNomade ensemble.
http://www.lagrandefabrique.com/
Lorenzo BIANCHI
Composer, professor in the conservatory of Montbéliard
Lorenzo Bianchi graduated in architecture (Italy) and composition (France) and after living in Spain for a while, he moved to Paris where he now lives and works.
He is currently a lecturer in multimedia composition at Franche-Comté University in France, since 2004 and also professor in the conservatory of Montbéliard, France.
He composed music for albums, installations, theater, images, performances and contemporary dance.
His interests span from instrumental composition with real time electronic (mixed music/MAX-MSPjitter), to audio and video installations to soundtracks and compositions for theater and dance. All this is created as a means of creation of new electro – acoustic sounds.
http://www.lorbi.info/wp/
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