ECHO CHAMBER

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ECHO CHAMBER

Echo Chamber uses the medical imagery of an ultrasound scanner to explore the frontiers of the invisible. In this multi-faceted performance, Martin Messier embodies a surgical, introspective presence, as if he were operating inside a human body. The work suggests a powerful link between inside and outside, self and world, revealing bodily matter as a vector of energy, here transformed into resonant sounds and electric arcs.

At the heart of this performance, the artist manipulates a modular interface made up of three panels. Long, precision-wielded needles pass through an audio-reactive plate, triggering sound and visual sequences in real time. Each gesture sculpts the space, transforming the device into a multi-sensory theater where light, sound and movement interact in complex harmony.

Light sources appear, disappear, split and transform, while the play of light cuts generates shapes that echo the resonance of sound and magnetism. The panels are transformed into screens where the body's interior is revealed: shimmering cells in motion, projected shadows, organic textures. Echo Chamber turns our perception on its head, inverting our usual points of reference and taking us beneath a skin that has become a landscape.

Concept, audiovisual composition, programming and performance :
Martin Messier 

Hardware Design
Maxime Damecour, Robocut, Martin Messier

Technicians
Francis Vaillancourt-Martin, Gabriel Duquette, Pierre-Antoine Poirier Guay, Jean-François Piché, Alice Germain, Francis-Olivier Métras

Creative advisors
Olivier Girouard, Thomas Payette, Patrick Lamothe, Briana Lombardo

Photos+videos credits
Martin Messier

Production : 14 lieux