POPOPOLSKA! A Toy Music Multimedia Concert.

 

Four “Toy Music” artists edit four short Polish animations, and impromptu perform the melancholy, lively and illusive animation soundtrack through the visual imaginations. In addition to the traditional toy piano, xylophone, vibraphone, and flute, unexpected cute musical instruments and effectors such as accordion, an old gramophone, small electric guitar, ukulele are also added. In these animations, the roles include a striped elephant with his friends, a dreaming boy, a multi-lingual puppy…The artists make the best of the soundtrack to let these lifelike roles make dialogue with the audiences.

 

 

 

A striped elephant tries to get along well with his friends, but his friends dislike his difference— the stripes. In the face of the rejection from friends, the elephant tries to hide the stripes on his body. Eventually, he is discovered and expelled from the circle of friends…

The Dreaming Mika lives in a wooden house in the field. He really wishes to have a companion and say goodbye to the loneliness. Just as he waters the plants, he finds that a mysterious companion brings him wings. As a result, he learns that the earth is so beautiful, and the sky is so vast…

 

The dog Rex likes making friends and can speak many languages. After he knows that his farm owners speak different languages and often feel bothered by many misunderstandings resulted from the language issue, he decides to become a multilingual diplomat and solve problems for everyone…

 

 

The first orchestra playing antique toys like musical instruments in Europe: Founded in 2003, CHAPI CHAPO uses antique old toys to play “Toy Music”. Musicians collect more than 400 toys from all over the world and reshape them into such “musical instruments” that can make different wonderful sounds.

 

This tradition of "resurrection" of classic animation with toy music originated from France in the 1960s and 1970s. The brand-new and interesting soundtrack makes the old animations take a new look, and endows the scene with a vibrant atmosphere of colour and poetic flavor.

 

Flutist: Patrice Elegoet

Musician & Voiceover: Tangi Simon

Musician: Bertrand Pennetier

Guitarist: Pascal Moreau

Audio Coordinator: Christophe Galès