The World of Kuntzel + Deygas | Hypebeast

Its always great to hear stories like that. You mentioned working on the film “Catch Me If You Can”. What was your role within the film and do you two do a good amount of film projects?

Florence: We created the whole opening title sequence of this film. Since then, we’ve created other opening title sequences for other movies on various occasions. We like it very much, another way to tell “silent stories” and connect action and typography. We created the sequence for the Pink Panther by Shaun Levy, but the work can only be seen on the DVD. Our most special piece was created for an art project by Tobias Rehberger, a German conceptual artist whose art piece was a deconstructed movie, built by reversing the usual process of making a movie which involves starting with the title sequence and ending with the script. We had to invent a title sequence without knowing the artist list. The music was great as well and specially composed by Ennio Morricone.

Another interesting project was the SOUNDSHOP piece. Can you tell us a bit of your involvement in that?

Florence: Olivier has been very interested in Hi-Fi for a long time. Our atelier is hooked up with a lot of vintage JBL. Vintage Hi-Fi is interesting because it has some rare components that are no longer in use, and their use provides a special style of sound. Our place is quite large so we can listen the sound quite loud and that’s when we discovered the sensory power of the air and the bass pulsing in the room. Contemporary Hi-Fi has very interesting products and developments as well, despite the world of contemporary, the Hi-Fi world is really old school and boring. That’s probably the reason why art had abandoned this segment! We realized that high-end Hi-Fi today is a luxury that can still bring a maximum sensation. Driving a fast sports car is less and less possible because driving really fast is largely outlawed, but you can listen to music really loud on your Hi-Fi without restrictions! So we started to use the Hi-Fi codes in our works and transcended them in different ways. Sarah knew our knowledge and our extensive research so she offered a chance for Olivier to curate a part of the selection of the SoundShop. Olivier has connected with some interesting brands such as Piega from Switzerland and Feastrex from Japan (for speakers) as well as the Japanese amplifier brand Flying Mole.

But most of all we took the opportunity to present our two acoustic sculptures. The first one “Caperino & Peperone hHute Fidelite” is a huge system including wide band speakers, subwoofers, 1 stereo and 2 mono amplifiers, 1 pre-amplifier… all in the shape of Cap&Pep on giant bones. The Cap&Pep design was created to maximize the Hi-Fi quality. Their size and posture was worked to fit with the sound. The second sculpture is a little easier to display, it’s a pair of wide band speakers, looking like two free-standing humans. They look similar but are a bit different and they give the illusion of being living creatures. Their body is made of classic waxed walnut, and the speaker in their face is a Feastrex. For us, its not just an industrial object, its a piece of art. We don’t know precisely where this work will lead us, and that’s what we like!