Pao Pi - Méliès on the Moon

This music video is a project where my approach is to question the universe of the director through my music, including my influences as well as evolving textures and atmospheres.

Today's artist is not only a musician, but also a visual artist. Pierre Piloni, born in Marseille, is a musician who does not stop at artistic boundaries. Music in the image, image in the music, that's exactly his thing. Also jazz in all its facets, fusion and contemporary music.

He started playing the piano when he was 11, later he studied jazz at the Marignane and Marseille Conservatory of Music. For three years he was with the Bamboo Orchestra. But music alone was not enough. His love for the plastic and visual made him continue learning. And so he quickly graduated from the School of Fine Arts of Marseille.

Under his stage name Pao Pi, he began to compose music that combines jazz and world music. He draws his inspiration from Asia in particular. His own jazz album is currently in the making, we can be curious.

Méliès on the Moon has become a tribute to Georges Méliès. The short film comes from the hands of the last mentioned and was released in 1902. It has become a pearl whose auditory and visual stimuli are intertwined. A reinterpretation of visuals through sound. Film music that gives a silent film its language. And this is a very idiosyncratic, but to the point language. Especially delightful is the onomatopoeic 'working of the ants' during the construction of the spaceship. Everything gets its interpretation. Even a passing shooting star gets its theme. The climax of the wild fight with the natives is dramatic. (For there is already life on the moon).

'Dramatic and chaotic' describe quite well the basic mood for the whole work. Pao Pi manages to create a very special atmosphere to this black and white classic. His music also serves him to question, complement and reinterpret the director's universe. Like a duet, displaced by light years.

Art knows no boundaries. Not even in space.

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