The street arts company Dynamgène unveils its new creation, the CarmenCycletta, during the Flamenco Festival.
If you like music… If you like mechanics… This Saturday, on the Place de la Calade, as part of the Flamenco festival, the working artists from the Dynamgène workshops are unveiling their new musical machine, the seventh after the Cymbabobylette , Rotocloche or RastaFeraille. With its Sevillian carriage shape, the CarmenCycletta takes flamenco through the streets.
Two pedal boards, to move forward and play music
Tinkerers, enthusiasts of muscular energy, mechanical poets, the street arts company specializes in inventions in the form of toys for adults who have retained their childhood dreams. “A beautiful machine, it works well, you will enjoy it”laughs Pierre Pélissier, in his overalls. Thanks to a first crankset, it moves the CarmenCycletta forward. The legs of singer Pepe Martinez, perched on a second handlebar, turn a camshaft, which activates musical instruments like no other, a guitar “who makes some rough chords”a keyboard, a cajon, but also dancer’s shoes, a paella pan with its crayfish, an anvil…
A game with around twenty controllers allows for a variety of instrumentations and rhythms. “Pierre had the idea of a machine that plays flamenco, remembers Pepe Martinez. The most difficult thing is the guitar which is very virtuoso with flamenco.” But the artists chose to avoid tradition…
