Mekanik Kantatik is a living installation that evolves around a piano. The piano, set up electronically, is the raw material of the artist. Nicolas Cante, pianist and « human robot » uses all the components of his instrument (keyboard, cords, wood and iron) combined with modern technology (computers, sensors), to create, what is though electronic, a profoundly organic music. It is unknown whether the artist controls the machine or the machine controls the artist. The album is a collision of jazz, pop, techno and experimental music in a subtle and enlightened way. The singing and the instrument are acoustic or robotic, the sounds mechanical or organic. What results is a universe of deconstructions/reconstructions that have no other purpose then disturbing the courtiers of an architecture of straight lines and filled volumes. Mekanik Kantatik is a whimsical, out there and offbeat scientific project. Live, Mekanik Kantatik is a game of uncertaint...