The Ghost Orchestra Live Setup

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     On stage or in unusual places, Laura Perrudin sings, plays and arranges a very personal “orchestral” live music : each sound she makes with her harp or her voice can be processed with effect pedals, spatialized, recorded and looped, deploying a very wide sound spectrum.

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     The harp is played in multiple ways (prepared with objects stuck in the strings, struck with sticks or mallets...) and can sometimes evoke electronic drums, basses or even guitars... with a very singular sound quality.

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     In order to give each sound its own physical identity and an organic feel to the whole picture, some sounds are rooted in a bass amp, a guitar amp or are transmitted to a snare and a bass drum which react to the audio, creating the feeling that they are playing by themselves.

On top of that, some abstract and aerial sound materials are creating a perpetual movement of multicast random paths in the room.

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     Laura Perrudin and her “virtual musicians” creates a very immersive “Ghost Orchestra” sound in three dimensions. The performance is mixed by Jérémy Rouault as he would mix a real orchestra, even if a solo performance is happening on stage.

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     Using only the harp and the voice as sound sources, Laura Perrudin's playing and singing are the beating hearts of a wide electroacoustic and poetic ecosystem (that actually looks like a strange giant octopus).

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     Using no pre-produced sound, no metronome or quantization, her virtuoso live-looping differs from predictable and systematic forms that one can sometimes fear from this technology. Everything is moving, evolving, alive. Here, electronic music is about the present human gesture.

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Laura Perrudin - vocals, electric chromatic harp, effects, multi-track looper, rooting

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Jéremy Rouault - Sound

 

Thibault Galmiche - Lights

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Laura Perrudin uses the multichannel looper software Repetito