Les Humains

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Les Humains is a song created by aKido in 1998 which featured a speech filmmaker Pierre Falardeau gave at Laval University in Quebec City. aKido sampled the speech off the television and structured a whole song around it. The particularity of this creation is that the whole speech was edited to fit the rythm of the music, a process involving time-compression and time-stretching using a variety of audio-editing softwares. The song was distributed freely on the internet and sent to Bande-a-part in 2004, an Espace Musique radio show devoted to emerging artists, and it quickly rose to the top of local charts. Actor David La Haye produced a video for the song, directed by VJ Pillow, Felix Lajeunesse, Paul Raphael and Augustin Tougas. It won several awards worldwide (Grafika, Glitch, IMVF) in large part due to its groundbreaking use of movie sampling of public domain Russian movies and was in heavy rotation on the Canadian music channel Musique Plus. Pierre Falardeau does a cameo in the video, and has said in interviews that he is flattered about the whole thing and even showed interest in the internet as a new way of distributing artistic ideas.


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Les Humains (video) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bXjY_mMpmU

aKido official website http://akido.biz

Directors' website http://www.felixandpaul.com

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