I played last saturday at the festival Les Digitales in La Chaux-de-Fonds. It took place in the Parc des Crêtets. Nice weather, friendly people, great organization… thanks to everyone who made it happen.

There were a dozen of concerts from 3 to 10 pm. I played near the end, around 9 pm. I had prepared a 2-part set. The first part was ambient-like with a glockenspiel and live sampling of objects (balloon again). I had planned to layer guitar loops at the end but my looper pedal didn’t work (no more battery it seemed) so instead I kinda played chords on the guitar, which is pretty unsual for me. I ended this part a bit earlier. The second part was quite different; heavy beats with some percussive field recordings in the background.

You can see on the picture that the “kiosque à musique” where we played was really nice.

Some people remembered I’d used a Wii remote last year at Les Digitales in Lausanne and asked me if I’d have my Wii this time… well, I wanted to have it but it seems it’s not working anymore with my old Mac. This is a known issue, the Wii connects through Bluetooth and then a bunch of seconds later it disconnects. I’m afraid I’ll have to wait for a new laptop to reuse my Wii.

Herebelow two videos of my set. There are some more on YouTube.