22marbles

Live performance duo

22marbles is a composition and performance project by Véro Marengère & Martin Marier.  Joining their interests for improvisation and haptic electronic sounds, their work proposes a slowtech approach. The ongoing communication between the sponges and the humans evokes a minimalist, noisy, mutualist and empathetic approach to music making. 22marbles played for UdeMusique festival, Art Souterrain, DAIMON and Les Percéïdes. Their first album, Serpens (2021), is on Kohlenstoff Records. 

The Sponge is made of various sensors that can detect when it is squeezed, twisted or shaken. Sensor data is then sent wirelessly to a computer that translates the data into sounds via SuperCollider. The Sponge is featured in performances all over the world and is widely known in the New Interfaces for Musical Expression community.