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Concerti (Caen, Normandy) makes the maestro: a portable sensory music device. Place, turn or remove five modules and anyone becomes a conductor, with 3,124 harmonious combinations and no wrong note. From early childhood through healthcare to elder care, it brings every generation together around music without musical skills. At VivaTech, Concerti invites visitors to experience it live: technology you feel, not learn. 640+ units already deployed.
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00:00ladies and gentlemen let's talk about music hmm yes music our next guest is concerti a french
00:14startup from normandy yes normandy ladies and gentlemen they built le maestro a sensory
00:23musical instruments that lets anyone play music with gesture with no training no screen
00:33designed first for child living with a neurological condition now used in care homes
00:43special needs centers and inclusive education programs ladies and gentlemen the music starts
00:53with christophe brunet music composer and co-founder of concerti
01:11hello what if you can be a musician without musical knowledge
01:21are there musicians here musicians playing instrument who want yes nice to meet you
01:29anyone who wanted to play an instrument
01:32lots of you so this is the maestro
01:37who said music lives within you as a composer i'm sure that everyone of you is a musician
01:46not an instrumentalist because the instrument is the tool you use to express your musicality
01:57like the voice when you sing like the body when you dance so we are by nature musical beings
02:10that's professor owning said in the biology of musicality i encourage you to read that book so
02:22the maestro is the sensory musical device that
02:29turns it's written so and it's a challenge to music so it's like a lego musical device
02:37that's there's five modules we say modules because you can modulate with music it is not an
02:45instrumental instrumental tool like a guitar or a piano you have there the melody okay here and here
02:58the harmonic instrument like a guitar a piano the string ensemble then the drums then the bass so
03:09that's me okay great so
03:15the thing you you have only to know is to place a module
03:23turn the module
03:25turn the module then create
03:30i'm gonna show it to you
03:34let's begin by a lullaby
03:38please sound
03:45maybe louder please
03:52do you hear okay if i turn
03:56i change the nature of a sound which is a piano now and then a glockenspiel and then a trumpet
04:06and then a salmerion okay let's build and compose your own composition put a piano okay but it's a bit
04:17sad for me so i turn oh it's lighter it's brighter it's hard
04:25push it oh it's confusing you have got lots of instruments when you can hear
04:33winds like a bassoon
04:36okay and the brain is really amazing
04:39now you can hear the bass you didn't hear before and let's take a bass the drums and the bass
04:50okay
04:51okay this is au clair de la lune which is really famous in france so now let's
05:01hear the cello
05:04the drums
05:06the string ensemble
05:08and this is the orchestra version and then the dancing version with latino which is always
05:18the same song and then the mischievous one
05:24and you can create your music no thoughts because it's not a performance it's really an experience
05:37okay let's start with another one this one
05:45do you have this song
05:50now the piano and the strings and in jazz with the drum and the bass
05:57and then
06:00you travel in time with your vocabulary vocabulary yes sorry so now in dubstep version
06:11from 2000 and then
06:16the electro version so you can mix your own music and be a composer
06:23okay music is really about caroline big it's about relation
06:30and joy so it's the first step of your amenity and before the language
06:37i didn't hear what the song is clubhouse you want to dance now be a dj you can so let's
06:47start with
06:47with the time with the time for with the bass
06:55one two one
06:57one
07:06two
07:12one
07:21and you make music it's easy you want to try
07:26do you want to try no you're too scared of me it's okay you have uh in a few minutes
07:32you can
07:32try the maestro with the concertina you want to try what i want to try okay
07:37okay this one so beginning blue which is the beginning and your foot no okay it's okay it's gonna be
07:45great
07:53okay
07:58okay great
08:06You do it better than me.
08:14Come on!
08:19Yeah!
08:26Oh, yes!
08:29And you can play eight hours only on this song,
08:33because you feel at the moment just the moment.
08:38Okay? Thank you.
08:39You're welcome. Wow!
08:41I've got two more minutes to show you how music is unbelievable.
08:47Medieval.
08:48Medieval.
08:49Okay, now let's talk about imaginary
08:54and the place of the sound in your life.
08:57When you hear this,
09:03each one of you imagine his own situation.
09:07A little girl, a little boy, a father walking in the forest of your family.
09:16And then...
09:20She hears...
09:23Oh! The bell.
09:28And...
09:29She's a bit scared.
09:33She sees...
09:35Oh!
09:36It's me?
09:36No, it wasn't me.
09:38She sees...
09:39She hears the wolf.
09:41So she's really scared now.
09:44Do you hear the power of the sound?
09:47And...
09:47If you...
09:48Just listen to this wolf with the music...
09:52If you turn...
09:53Here, with this music...
09:56The wolf is in love.
09:59He can...
10:00Maybe.
10:01Maybe.
10:03Gosh.
10:05Come on, boy.
10:07Yes.
10:08Here's...
10:09Frightened...
10:10Here...
10:11In love.
10:12Okay?
10:13And then...
10:16Medieval.
10:17You can create...
10:19In medieval situation...
10:21In a village...
10:25Imagine the guy...
10:27And create your own...
10:30Poetry.
10:31Poetry.
10:32Create...
10:33Your own...
10:35Tell...
10:35In children...
10:37Because...
10:38What's the purpose of the maestro?
10:41It's an helper.
10:43It helps professional people...
10:44Who care about each other...
10:46Of your children...
10:48In an hospital, maybe.
10:49Or in school.
10:51Or...
10:51What can I say?
10:52For elders people...
10:54Oh, it's the return, sorry.
10:56To make them...
10:59Vulnerable...
11:00Vulnerable, sorry.
11:01People...
11:01Who can feel joy...
11:03With...
11:04Their music.
11:05You understand?
11:06Okay?
11:07Stimulate...
11:08The memory for elders...
11:10Listening to sound.
11:11Because in your life...
11:12The memory of...
11:13The musical memory...
11:15Is still...
11:15Great.
11:16All...
11:17You have all your life...
11:18The musical.
11:19Sorry, it's really hard to speak in English.
11:21And...
11:22I'm a bit...
11:23Emotional.
11:24So...
11:25We care about the...
11:27The people...
11:28And all the professionals...
11:30That help...
11:31Our children...
11:31Our grandmother...
11:33In...
11:34In...
11:35Music school too...
11:36In media tech...
11:37In libraries...
11:39In...
11:39Everywhere...
11:41There is humanity...
11:42Even...
11:43Everywhere in the world...
11:44We're now in Canada...
11:45In Switzerland...
11:46And we speak...
11:48With music...
11:49With no word...
11:50We exchange...
11:51And I see you...
11:52Smiling...
11:53It's a...
11:53Relation link...
11:54Social link...
11:55So...
11:56It's very...
11:56Oh gosh...
11:58Thank you so much...
12:00Thank you so much...
12:01And you can see us...
12:03And ask questions...
12:05There...
12:06The team is there...
12:07Thank you...
12:08Thank you Christophe...
12:09Wonderful...
12:10Big thanks...
12:10We come to see you after...
12:11Thank you...
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