Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter, Artist Julian Charrière and DJ Rampa Reflect on Rhythm & Collaboration

Why It Matters

The installation signals a growing trend of high-profile musicians partnering with contemporary artists to create immersive, socially themed experiences that expand audience engagement and challenge traditional commercial formats. For the cultural sector and commercial partners, such cross-disciplinary projects open new models for programming, branding and revenue beyond conventional concerts or exhibitions.

Summary

Daft Punk co-founder Thomas Bangalter, artist Julian Charrière and DJ Rampa discuss a collaborative, hybrid project presented in Basel that blurs art, music and performance. The work draws conceptual links between the communal origins of house music and the collaborative drafting of the Declaration of Human Rights, aiming to create an experiential trajectory that is neither a concert nor a gallery piece but a space for reflection and encounter. The trio emphasize cross-disciplinary teamwork—sound, light and engineering—to experiment at a scale rarely attempted in their solo careers. They describe the project as provocative rather than didactic, designed to prompt questions rather than provide answers.

Original Description

“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

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