Matthieu Henry

interactief , installatie , Geluid , Design

Matthieu Henry co-founded Sweet Scope, a design studio aiming to gently impact spaces through interactive sound installations. Together with Edern Janneau, they seek a rational yet poetic future where dreamlike ideals define functionality. These principles apply through sounds, shapes, and colors refining and stimulating our environment.

Brutus Take Over
Brutus Take Over - This summer, Brutus invited Rotterdam creators and initiatives to participate in a Brutus Takeover: a dynamic seven-week program. As a way to discover artistic practices that might not be on our immediate radars. Each week, for seven weeks, the “Bureel” will be handed over to the selected creative(s). This initiative serves as a platform for creative exchange, aiming to contribute to, support and strengthen the cultural ecosystem. Amira Gad and Sophie de Vos, together with the Brutus team, made the final selection. Curation: Amira Gad and Sophie de Vos 22 - 25 August 2024 Brutus, Rotterdam, Netherlands Pictures: Juliana Verastegue Bayle
Live performance / Brutus Take Over
Live performance / Brutus Take Over - This summer, Brutus invited Rotterdam creators and initiatives to participate in a Brutus Takeover: a dynamic seven-week program. As a way to discover artistic practices that might not be on our immediate radars. Each week, for seven weeks, the “Bureel” will be handed over to the selected creative(s). This initiative serves as a platform for creative exchange, aiming to contribute to, support and strengthen the cultural ecosystem. Amira Gad and Sophie de Vos, together with the Brutus team, made the final selection. Curation: Amira Gad and Sophie de Vos 22 - 25 August 2024 Brutus, Rotterdam, Netherlands Pictures: Juliana Verastegue Bayle
The Purple Lab
The Purple Lab - The Purple Lab explores the tension between everyday life in an urban area, and the development of urban spaces, within the area of Katendrecht, in Rotterdam. Using a rigid and harsh system of documentation on the site, we collected soft data to capture moments that represent the intangible fibres of city living. We act as the vessels through which subjective information about the area can be documented and analysed, combining the physical elements and our perceptions of the space into an interpretation of the social reality of this neighborhood. We designed and built ‘The Purple Lab’ to look at Katendrecht through a new lens, emphasising the multiple realities existing at once, and offering tools to visualise the intangible, nodding to the juxtapositions of the strategic urban changes and the spontaneous quotidianity. In collaboration with Orla Kelly & Giorgio Ye Picture by Cian Redmond
Subjective Mapping Workshop - The Purple Lab
Subjective Mapping Workshop - The Purple Lab - In November 2024 we hosted the workshop ¨Subjective Mapping¨ on the site of Katendrecht to test out the methodologies of the Purple Lab. We collectively observed, explored, and documented the area, focusing on individual subjectivities and lived experiences in the urban area. We gathered at the Sunny Side Terrace, and through conversation, drawing, and glühwein, shared new insights into this part of Rotterdam. Collaboration with Orla Kelly & Giorgio Ye Picture by Cian Redmond
Architecture Workshop - OBS Het Landje
Architecture Workshop - OBS Het Landje - From the 22nd to the 25th of April 2024, we collaborated with 3 classes of the OBS Het Landje Rotterdam basic school on a workshop revolving around architecture and urbanism. During these 4 days, we worked with students on the collaborative construction of 3 original metropolises. The results were displayed in the Nieuwe Instituut along other architectural creations of the students.
Architecture Workshop - OBS Het Landje
Architecture Workshop - OBS Het Landje - From the 22nd to the 25th of April 2024, we collaborated with 3 classes of the OBS Het Landje Rotterdam basic school on a workshop revolving around architecture and urbanism. During these 4 days, we worked with students on the collaborative construction of 3 original metropolises. The results were displayed in the Nieuwe Instituut along other architectural creations of the students. The first day saw each group thinking of their own city through the collective drawing of a map. This step aimed to understand the way a city can be structured and what type of construction we can, should, and wish to find within it. The cities were divided into 3 types of construction: - housing (ex: apartments, private houses), - the activities (ex: bakery, sports stadium, harbor), - public infrastructures (ex: bridge, city hall, hospital), Each of these elements was given a color code that guided the organization and understanding of the cities throughout the entirety of the workshop. The second day was dedicated to the actual making of each construction or intervention within the urban area. The students moved from their 2D plans and drawings into 3D shapes by creating volumes out of cardboard. These volumes were placed according to the plan previously drawn. The third day focused on applying the color code to each building or infrastructure previously built. This simple division of the metropolis helped organize discussions and reflections between the students over the newly constructed cities. It also allowed for an intuitive understanding of the subdivisions implemented in the city. During the 4th day, each group of students recorded a soundscape related to their cities and the infrastructures within it. This sound intervention introduced the students to basic foley recording techniques and depicted life in their city. This final addition allowed students to inhabit the cities they built with their own sounds and sonic expressions. Many thanks to: OBS Het Landje and all the teachers who trusted us and helped bring this workshop to life. The students and their genuine involvement in building these unique cities. Our intern at the time Meta Scholtens who provided great help in structuring the activities. Het Nieuwe Instituut for hosting and presenting the results of this research.
Brandstof Performance - Collective musical performance using the Leaning Sounds installation in concert with Sound of Touches to create a soundscape in the gallery space. Performed on 7 October 2023 at Garage Rotterdam.
Leaning Sounds - (2022) Leaning Sounds is an interactive installation inviting the user to apprehend and perceive his environment through the use of sounds by creating a simple harmonic system allowing to play intuitively without requiring a musical background.  Each object is an invitation to interaction, with harmonic sounds being generated as people touch the different copper squares. This project is a matter of poetry of use. The function of these objects is to emit sounds filling the space and invite the spectators to apprehend the place by means of touch and sounds. We believe that allowing sound to be a composing element of a space is a useful abstraction. By considering our habitats as places of poetry, Sweet Scope likes to widen the field of our sensory prospects, introducing into spaces a rational yet dreamlike perspective. We aim for the user to discover his environment through the poetic and playful use of sounds. Tones shall become vectors for discovering space, giving meaning and function to shapes that had none before. Picture: Juliana Vérastègue Bayle Model: KyungSeo Min
Sound Of Touches - (2022)
Sound Of Touches - (2022) Sound Of Touches is an architectural and intuitive device. Through a system of organized proportions, the object emits sounds in accordance with its shape. It invites the player to musical creation through a sensorial object that stands out from classical synthesizers by its shape, colors, and readability. Through a system of organized proportions, the object emits sounds in accordance with its shape. The device can be discovered and understood by its simple use, no technical knowledge being required to experience it. The sounds arising from the forms are amplified and distorted. Some are analogous and respond to pressure from a hand or the pluck of a string. Others echo the direct environment in which the instrument is placed, notably by a game of light intensity. Digital sounds are thus directly linked to the real world. The physical architecture of the instrument becomes the unaltered reflection of the sounds it emits, allowing music to be perceived as a living and intuitive game of proportions.

Nouveaux Horizons

Datum:
Locatie: Atelier Néerlandais
In samenwerking met: Atelier Néerlandais / Sweet Scope Studio

Tot en met vrijdag 21 februari is op het Atelier Néerlandais de expositie Nouveaux Horizons te zien. Nouveaux Horizons geeft u een inkijkje in de Nederlandse creatieve industrieën. Onze nieuwe locatie is een bruisende ontmoetingsplek voor Nederlandse kunstenaars en creatieve ondernemers in Parijs, tijdens de expositie bent u van harte welkom om bij ons te komen kijken.

https://atelierneerlandais.com/expo-nouveaux-horizons/

Subjective Mapping Workshop - The Purple Lab

Datum:
Locatie: Katendrecht
In samenwerking met: Orla Kelly & Giorgio Ye

In November 2024 we hosted the workshop ¨Subjective Mapping¨ on the site of Katendrecht to test out the methodologies of the Purple Lab. We collectively observed, explored, and documented the area, focusing on individual subjectivities and lived experiences in the urban area. We gathered at the Sunny Side Terrace, and through conversation, drawing, and mulled wine, shared new insights into this part of Rotterdam. Collaboration with Orla Kelly & Giorgio Ye

Brutus Performance

Datum:
Locatie: Brutus
In samenwerking met: Brutus

Musical performance with the installation Leaning Sounds for the Finissage of the Wild Summer Of Arts in Brutus Rotterdam.

Brutus Take Over

Datum:
Locatie: Brutus
In samenwerking met: Brutus

This summer, Brutus invited Rotterdam creators and initiatives to participate in a Brutus Takeover: a dynamic seven-week program. As a way to discover artistic practices that might not be on our immediate radars.
Each week, for seven weeks, the “Bureel” will be handed over to the selected creative(s). This initiative serves as a platform for creative exchange, aiming to contribute to, support and strengthen the cultural ecosystem. Amira Gad and Sophie de Vos, together with the Brutus team, made

https://brutus.nl/en/programme/on+view/wild+summer+of+art+2024/

Nieuwe Institute + OBS Het Landje

Datum:
Locatie: Nieuwe Instituut
In samenwerking met: OBS Het Landje / Nieuwe Insitute

From the 22nd to the 25th of April 2024, we collaborated with 3 classes of the OBS Het Landje Rotterdam basic school on a workshop revolving around architecture and urbanism. During these 4 days, we worked with students on the collaborative construction of 3 original metropolises. The results were displayed in the Nieuwe Instituut along other architectural creations of the students.

https://sweetscope.studio/Het-Landje-x-Nieuwe-Instituut

OBS Het Landje Workshop

Datum:
Locatie: OBS Het Landje
In samenwerking met: OBS Het Landje / Sweet Scope Studio

From the 22nd to the 25th of April 2024, we collaborated with 3 classes of the OBS Het Landje Rotterdam basic school on a workshop revolving around architecture and urbanism. During these 4 days, we worked with students on the collaborative construction of 3 original metropolises.

https://sweetscope.studio/Workshop-Het-Landje

Brandstof / Leaning Sounds & Sounds of Touches

Datum:
Locatie: Garage Rotterdam
In samenwerking met: CBK

Leaning Sounds is an installation by the artistic duo Sweet Scope that you can interact with during the exhibition Choreographed Events curated by Bogomir Doringer. The simple harmonic structures encourage visitors in the gallery to naturally make music while appreciating and seeing the world through sound. During Brandstof on Saturday 7 October, Sweet Scope performed in their installation with Sound of Touches - an instrument incorporating touch and environmental lighting.

Choreographed Events

Datum:
Locatie: Garage Rotterdam
In samenwerking met: CBK

The interactive artworks in Choreographed Events may be choreographed by various factors. It could be the curator or artists behind this exhibition who have created the activations for you, it might be technology, it might be algorithmic processes choreographing the activations. Or you might be the choreographer within this exhibition because of your presence and interaction with the works.
Curation: Bogomir Doringer
Picture: Aad Hoogendoorn

https://catalogue.garagerotterdam.nl/en/catalogues/59/activities/219/

Take Care!

Datum:
Locatie: Stecca 3.0
In samenwerking met: Isola Design / Milan Design Week

Project presented: Leaning Sounds
Take Care! Of your mind, body, and environment, curated by the multidisciplinary design studio Tellurico, at Stecca3, is an immersive show exhibiting projects focused on tackling contemporary issues that cover both the social and individual spheres.

https://isola.design/event?eventGK=BI9742L8&adminGiris=&external=

Misophonic Orchestra

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Locatie: Residency For The People
In samenwerking met: STRP festival / Residency For The People

If you have misophonia, you are emotionally affected by common sounds - usually those made by others, and usually ones that other people don't pay attention to.
The Misophonic Orchestra brings intimate eating sounds to the stage, exploring their emotional potential through performances and the perspective of misophonia.

Arte Laguna

Datum:
Locatie: Arsenale Nord Venezia
In samenwerking met: Arte Laguna

Arte Laguna Prize opens its door at the Arsenale Nord in Venice to showcase the 16th and 17th edition finalists’ exhibition. 240 artworks from all over the world will take you on a journey through Contemporary Art. The exhibition is enriched by a critical text by Luca Beatrice.

https://artelagunaprize.com/exhibition-22-23/

Como o design soa / How design sounds

Datum:
Locatie: Av. Dr. Francisco Pires Gonçalves
In samenwerking met: Forum Arte Braga

"How Design Sounds" is an exhibition where sound is the protagonist, and establishes relationships, or resonances, between the various works. Sometimes the works offer us delightful melodies, at other times, already mute, they invoke memories of sounds long hidden and forgotten. Taking us all by surprise. "Como o Design Soa" intends to be a corollary of emotions, and sensory experiences, which, through sound, reverberate to an experience with several hands and multiple tonalities.

https://www.forumartebraga.com/Exhibitions

Messmerizing

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Locatie: Eindhoven Central Station
In samenwerking met: Dutch Design Week

Messmerizing is a contemporary forward-looking exhibition at Eindhoven Central Station. A space where designers & artists connect and reconnect the visitors on multiple levels. Everything is made to enchant and mesmerize in an overwhelming raw space with colorful design pieces.

https://ddw.nl/en/programme/7447/messmerizing

We Will Design

Datum:
Locatie: Base Milano / Via Bergognone 34
In samenwerking met: Base Milano / Milan Design Week

From 6 to 12 June 2022, BASE presents the second edition of “We Will Design”: designers from all over the world, schools, universities, international institutions and young students gather in an experimental laboratory of imagination and inclusion, in which design practices and experiences become a tool to read – and, sometimes, solve – the many contradictions of our present, between upcoming visions, ideals of everyday life and micro-utopias.

https://base.milano.it/en/design-week-2022/

G21

Datum:
Locatie: Lardinoisstraat 8, 5611 ZZ Eindhoven
In samenwerking met: Design Academy Eindhoven

The Design Academy Eindhoven Graduation Show is one of the world’s most influential exhibitions of work by new designers. Staged annually in Eindhoven during Dutch Design Week, it allows both Bachelor and Master students to present their final projects to thousands of visitors in a curated environment.

https://www.designacademy.nl/p/study-at-dae/graduation-show
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