Ginou Choueiri

ARTWORK

Mad Mustache & Funky Feathers

Mad Mustache (Luca Bertini) and Funky Feathers (Ginou Choueiri) collaborated on a live sound and video performance in 2008 at the Aiwa Workshop in Aley, Lebanon

This is what they had to say:

Each of the 20 international artists arrived at the workshop singing their own personal song of who they are and where they come from.  All these songs mingled and infiltrated each other, forming a cacophony of noises which saturated the air into a mad symphony. Gradually some sort of rhythm settled in and we even began to sound like music.

To portray this idea, we used softwares that transcode images into sound, transforming each artists’ portrait into a sound piece, which we then combined together into a melody that we performed live in front of an audience, alongside a live visual projection.

How the projected started:

Funky Feathers:

I met Mad Mustache, sitting under a bridge silently crying my lost love over a Lemon Maté.  He told me to transcode my thoughts into a song, and I gave him my tears as a gift.  Mad Mustache then took the tears and exchanged them for a falafel sandwich.

Mad Mustache:

I’ve been looking for Funky Feathers ever since I saw her dancing with fire on “Watch-my-spicey-belly.com”.  When the site was closed down, I lost my hope in finding her.  In the meantime, I was featured on the front Cover of Mustache Illustrated but still not satisfied with my success,  I dropped everything and started traveling all over the world looking carefully under bridges. I finally found her.  She was sitting under an issue of Mustache Illustrated.  I was in it. We didn’t say anything, but music started.

Funkky Feathers n Mad Mustache