These talents ici dans l’ombre des grandes pop vedettes

Ils passent inaperçus, or presque. Ils sont pourtant des acteurs essentiels du cultural environment. Le Devoir offers a series of profiles of specialists through the trust of professionals who practice. Aujourd’hui: artistic directors of tour musicians.

On December 31, American band Cigarettes After Sex hit the Center Bell for their most ambitious world tour to date. For the cinema of Philippe Leonard, this is a “great moment of emotion”: this project is sur lequel il trualite from my prenaits in uniform, in the city, at a party in Quebecois outfit.

Derrière les Tournées des vedettes Internationales se cacent ainsi de centaines de travailleurs. These were stage technicians, eclairs or son engineers. Mais Montréal also opens the Bassin Surprenant de Directeurs Artistiques (creative directors), who, like Philippe Leonard, veillent à ce que leurs Productions Mettent les Artists en valeur tout en respected creative vision.

“C’est le bouche-à-oreille qui m’a permis d’tenir ce contrat, sans nul doute mon plus important life, conversation at the Bell center, in the montage of la veille du concert. The cost of this tournament typically ranges from $55 million to $200 million, which is monumental. And for a band like Cigarettes After Sex, with three dozen songs, it’s all about coming up with a dynamic and exciting performance for 15,000 people. »

The artist, who acts in experimental films, collaborates with musicians after the annes. This is a note from a video from the Elisapian Festival tour and co-regulation with Godspeed You! Black Emperor 16mm Film and Straight Pendant Light for Group Concerts.

A friend showed up in New York today to introduce Cigarettes After Sex singer Greg Gonzalez. “I thought I would evaluate my franchise,” explains Philippe Leonard. I required that I think about these gigs, and I when the signal pros chose what wasn’t working for me. I don’t know how to do this when I need to prepare for a tour and implement projections. Il est très cinéphile, it includes all kinds of cinematic references. »

Hard work

Artistic directors vary in the functions of artists and the organization of work, but most of all they create the overall image and create all the elements of the “vision” of the performance, scenography with video projections, on the passage within the framework of l’éclairage.

Gabriel Coutu-Dumont, co-founder of Montreal studio Silent Partners, has been an illustrator in the industry for over 20 years. Il coproduit les Tournées de célèbres vedettes de la pop, not Harry Styles, Pink and Lil Nas “Constantly in our projects, this is what is needed for video projections, the same way. Aujourd’hui, presque toutes les productions, que ce soit en theatre, en variétés ou en musique, including audiovisual projections. »

Some artists are not indifferent to what happens on the tour, the soul of Gabriel Coutus-Dumont. Today it is a special employee with Justin Timberlake, for example, “collaborating with his own products.” “In conclusion, the entire decoupage technique is based on a list of chansons, as well as videos that he decided to project on the huge screen of derriere la scène. »

This genre of work on equipment is not simple. Philippe Leonard is here to confirm that we are talking about “an environment of modest macho, with a big ego.” “In our production meetings, which are only 60 people, there are no more than five women. C’était d’autant plus compliqué que mon poste était naturalllement antagoniste à celuis des Producteurs. I arrived at every day with new ideas, but most of all I had to face budgetary constraints. »

Montreal, “Tournan Memorial Plaque”

Marcella Grimaud, founder of Noisy Head, has redoubled her efforts to differentiate the medium. “I have a great chance to gain the confidence of Dominique Champagne on stage and I will help him see a multimedia spectacle Paradis is lost

(2009). Ultimately, I can run a launcher in my studio to select my own projects and help the artists who love me. It was a vacation with Lizzo. I returned to Los Angeles to tour the video as I provided art direction for the first tour. »

Si la plupart des musiciens avec lesquels elle work viennent des États-Unis, Montréal demeure “une plaque Tournante Extraordinaire” for des Studios comme le sien, young Marcella Grimaud. “Thanks to our universities and more experience in special effects, plus the projects we do. Notre culturally flourishing environment also represents my collaboration with Quebec artists, Dont Loud and Charlotte Cardin. »

Philippe Leonard rejouit quant à lui d’avoir launched the “Cigarettes after sex” tournament in the Quebec metropolis, after preparing for the evening in the port of Rive-Sud. “I attended several concerts after 31 years of working with mobile phones to make adjustments to the itinerary, dit-il au Telephone quelques semaines après notre première entrevue. And what is in public in Montreal is also here: here you have the most chalets, the most invested in what you have. Considering the reaction from the public that they are not feeling at work, I believe that I have three chances to have this wonderful experience. »

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