Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter, artist Julian Charrière and DJ Rampa reflect on rhythm & collaboration

“If you want to build complex worlds, it’s important to collaborate.” For Thomas Bangalter, the co-founder of Daft Punk, Swiss-French artist Julian Charrière, and Berlin-based DJ and producer Rampa, collaboration is not simply a method of working, but a way of thinking. Bringing together backgrounds spanning electronic music, contemporary art, sound engineering, and club culture, the three creatives share a fascination with how people come together through rhythm, space, and shared experience. In this episode of Inner Worlds, we visit the trio in the Berlin studios of Keinemusik and Julian Charrière as they develop Warehouse Artefacts, a new immersive experience for Art Basel in June, staged as a deconstructed dancefloor. Moving between installation, sound environment, and rave, the project connects political history with underground culture through an archival recording of Eleanor Roosevelt reading the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the foundational principles of house and dance music. Throughout the film, the three reflect on collaboration as both a creative and political act. "It’s not an installation, it’s not a rave, it’s not a concert or an event," Charrière says in the film... read more at nowness.com _______________________________________ Subscribe to NOWNESS here: http://bit.ly/youtube-nowness Like NOWNESS on Facebook: http://bit.ly/facebook-nowness Follow NOWNESS on Twitter: http://bit.ly/twitter-nowness Daily exclusives for the culturally curious: http://bit.ly/nowness-com Behind the scenes on Instagram: http://bit.ly/instagram-nowness Staff Picks on Vimeo: http://bit.ly/vimeo-nowness