This October we were at La Grainerie (Toulouse), as part of the Travesía – Pyrenees de Cirque project. We were invited to do a research residency within the LABO MULTI program, designed to explore hybrid formats between circus, light, sound, and digital media.
We worked there on System Polylog, the research line shaping the future piece Polychromatic Void. It’s an open project, based on generative juggling and real-time interactions with light and sound. It doesn’t aim for a fixed form; each version responds to the space’s conditions and the materials at hand. This residency allowed us to keep testing those variations with time and resources.
We focused on three specific areas:
- How light changes affect the perception of movement
- How the reading of the figures changes depending on the type and duration of the sound
- How we can adjust the throwing tempos according to the sound space
We recorded footage to review the work and start building a visual archive of the process. Here you can see one of the clips recorded during the week:
Juggling, music and lights by Dídac Gilabert
Camera & Video by Teresa Santos
This residency is part of the support that Travesía offers to artists from the cross-border territory. The project aims to generate shared spaces and more collaborative forms of accompaniment. At La Grainerie, we were able to go into detail, carry out specific tests, and make technical decisions from action.
Below, some images of the process, taken by Teresa Santos
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