{"id":1928,"date":"2022-05-03T19:12:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T18:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hugoscurto.com\/?post_type=jetpack-portfolio&#038;p=1928"},"modified":"2025-07-02T22:05:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T21:05:31","slug":"mer","status":"publish","type":"jetpack-portfolio","link":"https:\/\/hugoscurto.com\/en\/portfolio\/mer\/","title":{"rendered":"Mer"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6><span style=\"color: #f5fe75;\"><strong>Ad\u00e8le P\u00e9cout, Hugo Scurto, 2016\u20142020<br \/>transmedia music<em><br \/><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/h6>\n<p><em>Mer<\/em> compositions collide metaphorical lyrics anchored in French chanson with concatenated textures brought up by computer music. The hybridisation materializes on stage through re-enactment of the singing voice with performative gestures using <em>CataRT<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Mer<\/em> eponymous album (2018) was accompanied by a series of photographic portraits and a web-based interactive <em>Libretto<\/em> (2020), featuring sounds, lyrics, and images coming from its eight music titles. Moving pictures were created using a deep neural network, which we trained over body photographs of Ad\u00e8le and myself, to point at our hybridising of genres and landscapes.<\/p>\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #f5fe75;\">Year<\/span><\/strong><br \/>2016\u20142020<\/h6>\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #f5fe75;\">Credits<\/span><\/strong><br \/>The project was developed with Axel Chemla\u2014Romeu-Santos in collaboration with the <a href=\"http:\/\/wolfgang.wang\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">w.lfg.ng<\/a> collective.<\/h6>\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #f5fe75;\">Links<\/span><\/strong><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/wolfgang.wang\/mer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Website<\/a><br \/><em><a href=\"http:\/\/wolfgang.wang\/mer\/libretto\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Libretto<\/a><\/em> (2020)<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/mermusique\/albums\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SoundCloud<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/channel\/UCc8zV9oadDSLuln5xP3n-ng\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/mer.musique\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a><\/h6>\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #f5fe75;\">Events<\/span><\/strong><br \/>In preparation<\/h6>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"924\" height=\"520\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GTXK5w7qf1U?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized has-lightbox\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wolfgang.wang\/mer\/libretto\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"924\" height=\"550\" data-attachment-id=\"7372\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/hugoscurto.com\/en\/portfolio\/mer\/mer-libretto\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hugoscurto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/mer-libretto.png?fit=2880%2C1712&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2880,1712\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-title=\"mer-libretto\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hugoscurto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/mer-libretto.png?fit=924%2C550&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hugoscurto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/mer-libretto.png?resize=924%2C550&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7372\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hugoscurto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/mer-libretto.png?resize=1024%2C609&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hugoscurto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/mer-libretto.png?resize=300%2C178&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hugoscurto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/mer-libretto.png?resize=150%2C89&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hugoscurto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/mer-libretto.png?resize=768%2C457&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hugoscurto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/mer-libretto.png?resize=1536%2C913&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hugoscurto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/mer-libretto.png?resize=2048%2C1217&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hugoscurto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/mer-libretto.png?resize=18%2C12&amp;ssl=1 18w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hugoscurto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/mer-libretto.png?resize=1200%2C713&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hugoscurto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/mer-libretto.png?resize=924%2C549&amp;ssl=1 924w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hugoscurto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/mer-libretto.png?resize=671%2C399&amp;ssl=1 671w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hugoscurto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/mer-libretto.png?w=1848&amp;ssl=1 1848w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hugoscurto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/mer-libretto.png?w=2772&amp;ssl=1 2772w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 924px) 100vw, 924px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wolfgang.wang\/mer\/libretto\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span style=\"color:#f5fe75;\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Link to <em>Libretto<\/em><\/span><span style=\"color:#f5fe75;\" class=\"has-inline-color\"><\/span><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ad\u00e8le P\u00e9cout, Hugo Scurto, 2016\u20142020transmedia music Mer compositions collide metaphorical lyrics anchored in French chanson with concatenated textures brought up by computer music. 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