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«Atlas, partitions silencieuses» 2020

 

Sound installation: White sand carpet, black pigments, metallic border, sound system: 4 speakers, amplifier. Dimensions: 5000 x 500 x 5 cm

 

 This work is a sonographic composition presented like a musical score. The dimensions of the carpet (250 m2) do not allow for a complete visual understanding. It is therefore necessary to walk around it and experience the surface through movement and exploration in order to decipher the sonic language one hears.

The drawings and diagrams are revealed in detail, in fragments, as one progresses.

Each drawing is a graphic and musical composition that combines several forms and figures. These "arrangements" organize and shape dialogues between patterns borrowed from musical notation and the secret Berber script.

These combinations tell stories that cannot be translated into words.

 

The score is nevertheless audible. The written symbols have been translated into sounds and are heard within the composition that accompanies the sand carpet. The acoustic translation keeps the stories it conveys secret. The stories unfold in the sounds, and their enigmas are embodied in the notes.

 

I assigned a note, a sound, an instrument, a soundscape, and a voice to each graphic motif. This electroacoustic composition was created using a sound library whose sounds were recorded in the Atlas.

The 20-minute sound composition accompanies the visitor's journey. It is played on a loop.

The acoustics of the Glasshouse, however, are very crystalline... and in composing the sound, I deliberately used these acoustic constraints specific to the hard materials that make up this space (glass and concrete). I intentionally chose a digital instrumentation (percussion, flutes, seraphim...) that fundamentally utilizes the metallic resonance of the space.