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«European melodic parliament» - 2011/2012 -

 

Sculpture sonore.

 

EMP is an "instrument", a hollow wall made up of 630 brick nesting holes on the back, and a white "partition" screen on the front, equipped with 10 stellated ropes perched in stainless steel, Feed notes are pierced In the wall / screen to create food reserves. The arrangement of these holes corresponds to the drawings of the 4 constellations of stars: Capricorn, Bouvier, Cygne, Virgin.

The stars of the constellations constitute the notes of the two musical scores, echoing the maps of the sky in which the stars constitute possible nocturnal reference points to the European migrations of birds. The lines of the score have been thought of as perches (the size of these threads is suitable for small birds). The birds, when they land on the cables, vibrate the strings that resonate through the brick cavities of the wall. The wall is a resonant body (resonant body) of the instrument. Their presence on the strings constitutes notes additional to the stellar score ...

The circular cavities of the bricks can be used as nesting boxes or refuges by birds. The façade of the wall (side of the wall) can be seen from a distance from the mezzanine of the "student foyer" building, which allows for possible observations of the nests with binoculars. The ridge of the wall is constructed as a watering-basin for the birds, it is filled by the rainwater.

The sculpture-instrument is installed at the foot of the students' foyer, very close to the restaurant rooms, on the trajectory that connects the restaurant rooms to the inner patio of the lycée, allowing the students to be able to deposit crumbs and seeds in the In order to feed the birds.

The more the pupils deposit crumbs, the more the birds will be numerous, the more the concert "a capella" will be spectacular.