Fused: dois homens, uma mulher e uma guitarra-rádio TRADUZIR

Show do grupo eletro-pop Fuse Factory em Lausanne. Fuse Factory

Near Lausanne, a three-person act called Fuse Factory has built a nonconformist sonic, visual and technological experience – and their own instruments too.

swissinfo went to meet the group hiding out in an 18th century château surrounded by rolling fields and vineyards, set against the backdrop of the Alps and Lake Geneva.

It all looks fairly peaceful, but beyond two sets of centuries-old wooden doors and down the steps in a cavernous basement Fuse Factory is at work. The ground throbs with deep electronic pulses; it could be a torture chamber without the iron maiden.

Between a maze of heavy cables, camcorders, microphones, video screens and mixing boards, Fuse Factory is rehearsing: a svelte Frenchwoman and a bald goateed American accompanied by somebody playing a 1990s ghetto blaster with a guitar neck attached to it.

It’s certainly catchy but it isn’t ordinary. Nor is it supposed to be.

“I think our music is deep,” says Sam, the band’s willowy vocalist, a classically trained musician and French national. She sports a trendy haircut that few could get away with. “It’s powerful and it’s emotional. It’s sensitive and a bit crazy. Original and different.” She runs out of adjectives.

Reviewer David Lalande of the Swiss television show Dolce Vita has called the music “a perfect balance between sound, image and a beautiful feminine voice…”

The electro-pop outfit in June released their third record – a concept album they called Soul Food. Fuse Factory’s video artist, Spir, describes a symbiotic relationship between the group’s three members and their media.

“We come up with an idea of what we want to communicate – or feelings – and then I go away and I try to find some visuals or colours or sounds for videos that reflect that,” he told swissinfo.

“Mio [the band’s third member] does the same with his rhythms and his music, and Sam the same with the words. Then we come together, mix it up and refine it.”

Fuse Factory

Sam (França)
Cantor, autor das letras e compositor
Formado em violino clássico
Já cantou em várias bandas de rock no passado

Spir (Los Angeles)
Formado em belas artes
Cria instalações de vídeo-arte.
Diretor de uma ONG

Mio (Suíça)
Jazz funk drummer
Já lançou dois álbuns “ambiente”
Casado com Elle com um filho

Influências
Björk, Herbie Hancock, Andy Warhol, Mother Theresa, Martin Luther King, Paul Cézanne, Biz Markie, Fiona Apple, Lausanne

Midi

MIDI (abreviatura de Musical Instrument Digital Interface -Interface Digital para Instrumentos Musicais) é uma tecnologia padronizada de comunicação entre instrumentos musicais e equipamentos eletrônicos (teclados, guitarras, sintetizadores, sequenciadores, computadores, samplers etc), possibilitando que uma composição musical seja executada, transmitida ou manipulada por qualquer dispositivo que reconheça esse padrão. Tecnicamente, MIDI é um protocolo; entretanto, o termo geralmente é utilizado também para se referir aos diversos componentes do sistema, como adaptadores, conectores, arquivos, cabos etc.

Diferentemente de outros formatos (como o formato WAV e MP3), um arquivo MIDI não contém o áudio propriamente dito, e sim as instruções para produzi-lo, ou seja, é basicamente uma partitura digitalizada. Essas instruções definem os instrumentos, notas, timbres, ritmos, efeitos e outras características que serão utilizadas por um sintetizador para a geração dos eventos musicais. (Wikipédia em português)