The Wall d’Alan Parker : les murs de l’enfermement mental et les fantasmes d’un ordre établi/ the Walls of Mental Confinement and the Fantasies of an Established Order

« The Wall » film d’Alan Parker basé sur l’album des Pink Floyd évoque l’enfermement mental du chanteur d’un groupe à succès et ses fantasmes d’un ordre paramilitaire /\ « The Wall », film by Alan Parker based on the album of Pink Floyd evoke the mental imprisonment of the singer of a successful band fascinated by a paramilitary established order.

Paname Urbex : lieux de tournages à Paris / filming locations in Paris

Since 2013, the Facebook community Paname Urbex makes an inventory of filming locations in Paris, France. Actuals photographs and movies screenshots are matched up, often superimposed. This work is extended to albums covers, in particular those of the French singer Renaud. Note in USA Delta Bravo Urban Exploration Team have the same goal. Depuis 2013,…

L’univers des villes pour Jacques Demy/ The World of Cities for Jacques Demy

The exhibition « Le monde enchanté de Jacques Demy«  which takes place from April 10 to August 8, 2013 at the Cinemathèque française in Paris, offers the opportunity to see closely the world of cities of this French filmmaker, who died in 1990. Jacques Demy, close to the « Nouvelle vague« , was a producer, but also a screenwriter,…

Rio Baril – Florent Marchet

The French singer Florent Marchet, sometimes compared to Alain Souchon despite their very different universes, likes also to refer to places in his songs. His personal geography is located slightly further south than Souchon’s Sologne. Florent Marchet evokes his natal Berry in Gargilesse, an instrumental that refers to « one of the most beautiful villages in…

Le Café des Délices – Bruel

After Carthage Salammbô, the TGM (Tunis-Goulette-Marsa) train arrives at Sidi Bou Said station. There is in the village another materialization of fiction, in a minor way compared to Salammbô, more in line with the sky blue house of Le Forestier. The famous song Le café des délices sung by the French singer and actor Patrick…

Take the « A » train

Imagine that the lines of the New-York subway system became the strings of a cello plucked by the trains. You would have the musical map of Alexander Chen. Et si les lignes du métro new-yorkais devenaient les cordes d’un violoncelle que viennent pincer les trains qui les croisent ? Cela donnerait la carte musicale d’Alexander…

Map of Metal / Carte du Métal

Patrick Galbraith (graphic designer) and Nick Grant (metal historian) drew a Map of Metal with some pieces of  leather, chains, nails, skulls … This interactive map lists all the sub-genres and the links between them. It does not forget other associated sub-genres as punk, hardcore… We note a main continent and many small islands. The…

Rock’n’roll Metro Map

Alberto Antoniazzi, an Italian graphic designer, presents the history of  Rock as a subway map where every line corresponds to a sub-genre and every group or musician corresponds to a station that may connect two lines. He uses all the codes of a subway map : colors, symbols, legend.  You can see  it on the…

We used to wait – Arcade Fire

With the release of their new album The Suburbs and the beginning of their new concert tour, the Montreal band Arcade Fire offers an interesting geospatial and interactive experience. By entering a place of your choice on the site, ideally your childhood home address, you generate a custom clip based on images from Google Maps…