For the musical web documentary Les Enfants de la Bolduc
The Machine à Turlute (Turlute Machine) is a mobile musical unit that enables the general public to learn a traditional folk singing style and collectively compose unique musical pieces.
In the late 1920s, Marie Travers, also known as La Bolduc, was the first female singer to sing to the Québec working class, in the language of the working class. Known as the Queen of Canadian Folksingers, she made a name for herself across the country with her Turlute, a traditional folk singing style, similar to Irish lilting, that sings out instrumental partitions with evocative phonemes. Tam ta da dee ta tam.
In 2011, we were commissioned by Lusio Films to develop a Turlute machine for the project Les Enfants de la Bolduc (“Children of La Bolduc”) that invited known Québec artists to rediscover the musical heritage of La Bolduc. Our Turlute machine would bring their music to the general public, traveling around the province as La Bolduc once did.
The Machine à Turlute is a custom designed trailer with a musical disc-based interface that plays sounds of Turlute composed and sang by different contemporary artists. This machine spreads the cheerful sounds of the Turlute and teaches the public about how these are created, inviting them to play around, create their own Turlute, and leave with one in mind.
As a contemporary interpretation of the spirit of this folk singer, the Machine also enables participants to rediscover a part of their cultural heritage while exploring how it can still be relevant today.
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Created by
Daily Tous Les Jours
In collaboration with
Lusio Films
Creative Direction
Mouna Andraos
Melissa Mongiat
Executive Production
Nicolas Fonseca
Concept team
Amélie Bilodeau
Émilie Grenier
Yolène Le Roux
Technical Direction
Eva Schindling
Musical Direction
David Drury
Industrial Design
Philippe Carreau
Eugénie Manseau
Interaction Design
Émilie Grenier
Featured artists
Ariane Moffatt
Random Recipe
Krista Muir
Socalled
Sound Engineer
Bruno Pulcella
Computer Engineers
Jan Anlauff
Peter Rockwell
Built by Lasco Concept with Robocut in Montréal, 2011
Filming
Philippe Tremblay-Berberi
Geoffrey Boulangé
Editing
Geoffrey Boulangé
Created for the musical web documentary
Les Enfants de la Bolduc
Producer
Marie-Dominique Michaud - Lusio Films
Original Concepts
Émilie Grenier
Jean-Christophe Yacono (yako)
Creative Director
yako