The Tonal Synesthesia:

An Immersive Jazz-Visual Experience

Artistic research and concert

18–24 August 2025

Pontailler-sur-Saône, France

Do you see music in color? Can a rhythm sculpt space? Do you believe a concert can be more than a sequence of songs?

The Tonal Synesthesia is a week-long artistic residency exploring the fusion of transcultural jazz and generative scenography. It brings together The Tonal Few, a jazz fusion quartet, and Minus3, a digital scenography company, in an experiment at the frontier of sound and image. This immersive project blurs the lines between concert, performance art, and visual installation. The goal: reimagine the concert experience by synchronizing rhythm, harmony, and light in real-time — where music generates image, and image feeds back into music.

Concerts

Saturday 23 August, 20:00

Salle des fêtes
Pontailler-sur-Saône

The Artists

The Tonal Few is a transcultural jazz quartet composed of:

  • Antonin Jaccard – Vibraphone
  • Alberto Rodriguez – Saxophone
  • Jarod Begusic – Bass
  • Ewen Grall – Drums

Rooted in jazz tradition but drawing from global idioms, they bring grooves, melodic intricacy, and a drive for spontaneous creation.

Minus3 is a scenographic design studio led by:

  • Thibault Jaccard – Audio-reactive visual designer
  • Vincent Raciti – Digital scenography and lighting

The Jaccard brothers, one musician, one engineer, form the emotional and conceptual axis of the residency.

The Residency

From August 18 to 24, the artists will develop a multimedia concert experience, exploring three creation formats:

  • Music → Visual
    Existing works from The Tonal Few are transformed through custom lighting and projections.
  • Music & Visual (co-creation)
    A longer piece developed during the residency, where music and visuals are written simultaneously.
  • Visual → Music
    A series of 10 short scenes (tableaux, 60–90 seconds) designed for social media, where visual structures inspire new compositions.

The Concert

On Saturday the 23th of august, a public performance will showcase the results of the residency. The concert will be filmed in multicam and is intended both as a live experience and a video artwork for future release.

The entrance will be free, come experience visual jazz with us!
Let your ears see. Let your eyes hear.
The Tonal Synesthesia redefines how we perceive music in space.

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