Cod.Act πTon
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Under the name Cod.Act, André and Michel Décosterd bring together their respective practices. André as a musician, Michel as a visual artist. Together they create performances and interactive installations based on the interplay of sound and movement. Since 1999, they have developed lean and functional devices at the intersection of the mechanical and the organic.
These devices are not the artwork itself, but the medium through which encoded musical structures come to life. Activated either by the audience or by the artists themselves, the works generate ever-changing configurations, random, ephemeral and multidimensional, offering a different experience with each activation.
πTon is an intriguing sound installation: a rubber tube, closed in on itself, twists and undulates like an invertebrate organism. Surrounded by silent figures equipped with loudspeakers, it appears to struggle in vain to escape. Its movements fuel a polyphonic ritual, both primitive and sophisticated, composed entirely of artificial voices. Drawing on raw matter and natural physical phenomena, the work merges organic movement and vocal expression into a striking sonic and visual event.
