Remember the very cool French Nabaztag? The wi-fi enabled bunny rabbit? Well, a hundred of them are getting together on May 27 at the Beaubourg for a mob opera called, “Nabaz’mob” as part of the Web Flash Festival. The Nabaz’mob opera is the brainchild of Antoine Schmitt and Jean-Jacques Birgé and coproduced by the Web Flash Festival and Violet, creators of Nabaztag.

Essentially, one hundred of these bunnies, brought by their owners, will perform a digital opera. They will be sent information by the composers in order to know what to do. The individual bunnies have their own preferences of sounds so they will not all sound the same at the same time. In fact, synchronization will be diffilcult to achieve, but should create an interesting effect musically. This definitely fits into the experimental music category.  It seems to have the potential to be fun or funny maybe both. In any case, it sounds like something to check out.

The opera comes in three parts (movements): The first movement starts out in a basic form allowing the Nabazmob to sound their most simple sounds, much like a glockenspiel. In the second movement, the music will take on longer notes interspersed with silences and bunny ear choreography The last movement will incorporate excerpts of classical music that has been totally transformed digitally.

Nabaz’mob Opera
May 27, 2006 – 8pm
at the Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris)
Opening Ceremony of the Flash Festival
(Free admission but with limited seats. More info and sign up here)

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