Martin Messier - PENCIL PROJECT

The Pencil Project is a performance piece created by sound artists Martin Messier and Jacques Poulin-Denis. Their intention was to craft a live electronic music piece inspired by the physicality of writing and the imagery it articulates. Using computer technology, the performers translate scribbling, scratching, dotting and drawing with pencil music. Although a lot of programming, signal processing and design provide de backbone of this project, one of its main objectives is to keep the technology invisib