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ORGANIC TONES MUSIC

1. Small 6 minutes interview about Organic Tones Music:   

This is the temporary page of Organic Tones Music Inc.

Organic Tones Music is an ambitious startup exploring new musical harmonies and new ways to play music, using innovative touch instruments experimentations. We plan to bring the first prototypes on the App Store soon, for iPads, iPhone, and later for Apple Vision Pro and DAWs.

After 3 centuries of using the same 12 notes (see the .pdf), could music be on its path to set free from fixed musical scales and let thrive dynamic harmonies? In order to create new musical harmonies, new musical instruments need visuals evolving in real time, and it is becoming possible as we already entered into the age of touch screens and MR-headsets, that are getting bigger and smarter at a fast pace. (Bigger iPads, Apple Vision Pro)

The Organic Tones Music project, driven by Alexandre Barthélémy, have employed inspired software developers like Roth Michaels (Boston) and Nick Rothwell (London), for sessions of work in Berlin. Together they started building prototypes of musical instruments on iPad and wacom-screen, connected with realtime-pitch-shifted electroacoustic cello and violins.

We hope to be able to make some real video demo/concert ASAP, but for now you can a sneak peak in the video above, and also:

2. A small First Keynote PDF. 3. A more detailed .pdf presentation about the real deal with musical harmony and why Organic Tones Music exist.

4. A few more images/videos of some first experiments on fb: Facebook Page.

5. A few additional sound experiments but it’s not yet the most handsome music as those crazy keyboards are kind of wild horses we still have to break: Soundcloud.

We are starting with Organic Tones Music Inc. in New York City and invite musicians / developers to try/help out with the first prototypes, and develop playful creative musical apps for tablets and smartphones.  Contact us if you want to be part of this.

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Mechanical Dancer

This is a mechanical - eventually soon robotic - partner dancer. In this video you just see the legs but there have been versions of it with the rest of the body. ( (Here a .pdf presentation of the possible future developments)  

Mechanical tango dancer - Legs prototype from Alexandre Barthélémy on Vimeo.

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PARTYCLASSICAL: Contact* + Tango Jams: About 1 to 2 Friday evenings per month:

Social dance evening consisting of a contact-improv* dancing jam interlaced with tango dancing. Introduction Labs of both Contact and Tango at the beginning. At St Marks Yoga, New York City, 7:45pm – 12:30pm. (zouk, fusion & solo dance is also warmly welcome) From time to time, some of the editions come with Brazilian Zouk dance, interlaced with tango. (check the events with "Zouk") (And CI dancing always welcome) PartyClassical, or The Dance Party on Classical Music, comes with 15 - 20% of classical music and alike, and 80% eclectic music. Check dates for the next events (check the events with "CI") : -> tickettailor.com/events/organictonesmusicinc or also: -> instagram.com/partyclassical

Ask to get on the maillist or whatsapp channel -> DM -> telegram: @alexbart_org *Guidelines for everyone for the contact-improvisation dance during the event Access this page with url : ny.alexbart.org

Below a video of the 1st “Dance Party on Classical Music”:

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TANGO + CONTACT + ZOUK SOCIALS

« Alex is a multi-skilled artist, community builder and dancer. (…) He is provoking new thoughts and emotions wherever he goes, all the while bringing a calming and connective vibe (…) »

- Senzo, performer artist and co-founder of Érosphère, main festival of interactive sensual arts in Paris, France.

After expanding rioplatense tango in France being the youngest tango teacher in France, Alexandre Barthelemy experimented new way to bring newcomers to social tango, using contact-improvisation techniques to relax them while learning tango steps. This way, he ignited the alternative tango scene in Paris, Berlin and Buenos Aires**, Buenos Aires where he taught his dynamic and contemporary style of tango weekly during two years to the young Argentinian tango crowd. He is also exploring interaction between tango and Brazilian zouk dance. (innovative Tango+Zouk socials in Paris and Buenos Aires in 2023-2024.***)

Video 1:

Dancing contemporary tango with Natalia Belén in the streets of Buenos Aires - Music: Lost, by @anneliepiano ; To Let Myself Go, by @anebrun ; Indigo Night, by @taminoamir - camera Eric Marshall :

https://www.facebook.com/alexbartprofile/videos/516187097279519

Video 2: 

...‘Milonga Alex’, at Gurruchaga 1041 dance studio, have been one of the energetic of the 88 tango socials of Buenos Aires. Here The Sages interview: Part where Alex speaks about the Contact-Improvisation dance part of his socials, with a few extracts from those:

Video 3:  The Sages interview: Part where Alex speaks about his view of tango, with a few dance clip extracts:

Video 4: 

One of the evenings of 2023 with also some Brazilian zouk:

https://www.facebook.com/alexbartprofile/videos/617296550530784/

What are tango + contact social? 

-> If you would mix together wine and cheese you’d get an unappetizing purple paste, but tasting a little bit of one after the other is a wonderful experience. The same way, Tango and Contact-Improvisation dances are not easy to mix, but joining them in the same experimental dance social, alternating one after the other, liberates unique energies.

Video 5: 

Alex & Oriel mixing tango and contact-improvisation dance after their class at Milonga Alex:

https://www.facebook.com/alexbartprofile/videos/621788579881570/

Video 6: 

Brazilian Zouk at before-last ’Milonga Alex’ in Buenos Aires, August 2023.  (Biggest brazilian zouk social in Argentina at the time) Contact-Improvisation dance inspire a lot of other dances and Brazilian Zouk is right now the dance that is the most influenced by it.

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Video 7:

End of the ‘Milonga Alex’ evening, seen in "88 milongas”,  7 hours documentary of the 88 tango socials of Buenos Aires. At 2h02m23s in the video (the rest of the video have nothing to do with it) 


NOTES: 

** The first ones were in Berlin, Video 8:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byz_lRkUDv4  ... and also Paris, here Alex’s interview by Radio Capsao Paris, Video 9: 

 https://www.facebook.com/alexbartprofile/videos/1911862125834003/

*** Tango-Zouk class experiment, Video 10:

 https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5F-Y2rKptW/ 

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ZOUK+TANGO EXPERIMENTS

A few videos of spontaneous moments trying to mix Brazilian zouk dance and tango dance: 1 - With Alessandra Tavares at the ZoukDayCongress 2023 social in Sao Paulo:

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2 - With Alessandra Tavares in Sao Paulo:

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3 - Teaching a tango+zouk experiment in Buenos Aires with Karina Kari:

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3 - With Karina Kari in Paris:

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Baile: Matias tripodi y Alexandre Barthélémy  Camera: Lucia putzulu

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Contemporary Tango Class for Helena - Buenos Aires - Helena Molinski & Alexandre Barthélémy

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Tango Playgroung Bailarines: Diego Mud & Alex Barthélémy - Camera: Nicolas Dodi & Jaguar Dorado - Musica: Felicia por Ariel Ramirez - Buenos Aires Villa Crespo, enero 2020

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Uferstudios Dance Trio - Berlin Dancers: Jasminka Stenz, Matias Tripodi, Alex Barthélémy Camera: Fabienne Butt

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Small teaser of a future clip with Alexandre and Annette  - Minsk - (music will be different in final clip)

Tango in Minsk with Annette - Alexandre Barthélémy and Anna Tikhomirova from Alexandre Barthélémy on Vimeo.

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10/2018 - Berlin - Tango class for contemp/street dancers:

(Jasminka Stenz & Alexandre Barthelemy at Club Oval Berlin)

Alexandre and Jasminka believe in contemporary dance to enhance the most tremendous aspect of tango, the free improvisation. Tango was born in the 1890s out of a mix of black and whites dances. Some suggest that it would have lost its african roots. Alexandre and Jasminka will show you that it didn’t. 

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Contact-Improvisation

Contact-Improvisation (or CI) is the freest partner dance in the world. Everyone comes with different levels of comfort with touch, taking time to listen to each dance intently and with care. Invented in the 70s, Contact-Improvisation is danced during social practices called « jams ». There is no special body type for contact (disabled people sometimes join). There is no special mood for contact, everyone creating their own vibe on the moment. There is no special music for contact, sometimes there is no music or often eclectic or experimental music)

Alexandre Have been facilitating many event involving CI, and he uses a lot of CI elements in his tango and shibari teaching. (Experimental rope-dance workshops in France, Ukraine, Germany, Argentina, Uruguay, Denmark) He organized practices of CI interlaced with tango, participating to the avant-garde tango scene in Buenos Aires and Europe

Paris: Workshop and open practice that he offered and filmed :

Jam Contact-impro Paris 2021 - Loft Lechapelais from Alexandre Barthélémy on Vimeo.

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20/04/2018 - Fiesta tango & contact - Buenos Aires: Evento facebook Video de ultima fiesta asi en Berlin

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DANCE PUPPET ENGINEERING

Research on a dancing mechanical/robotic partner dancer , below 

DANCE STUDIO MANAGEMENT

Online management of an art studio in Paris and organization of a few dance events there from time to time.

CLIMATE CHANGE LOBBYING

At Avenir Climatique Alexandre developed educational ideas to get a chance to deliver with the Paris Climate Agreement. He initiated an education project now called Educlimat. Personal blog of ideas about education and policies: http://solutionsforclimatechange.org/ (also in french as well)

SHIBARI PRACTICE

See here below 

PHOTOGRAPHY

Few photos below  CONTACT

Contact info below

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Few photos: (more of my photo work on a dedicated insta soon)

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Shibari practice and dance

Alexandre discovered and learned shibari art in Berlin with former dancer of Pina Bausch, Felix Ruckert. He have been facilitating experimental rope-dance workshops in France, Ukraine, Germany, Argentina, Uruguay, Denmark, etc

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Shibari practice and dance photos © alexbart.org