Espèces d’espace (2002-04)

• 1. Mouvement 1
• 2. Mouvement 2
• 3. Mouvement 3
• 4. Mouvement 4

Inspired by Gorges Perec, this title led me to an interest in the possible evolution of certain sounds, with respect to the space in which they appear. A sound, such as a signal, may motivate the imagination to prolong it in a musical manner. Actually, dreamily listening to acousmatic music sometimes causes me to mentally modify my hearing point, as a game. Once into the work, I deliver myself to a hot-and-cold listening attitude that vascillates between a more intimate form of hearing, and another that is more distant—a dedans-dehors (in and out) exploration of the space in which these sounds are situated. I have often reduced this notion of space to a single point, in which sounds both live and die. The use of heterogeneous material creates highly diversified formal schemes through contrast. […]

1. A closed space, theoretically impenetrable, that of a submarine where we are drawn to specific sounds and noises, a world that readily evokes Jules Verne.
2. An aerial space, identifiable, in which the electronic page sound that I created for the Roissy airport may be heard.
3. A natural space, where animals communicate using a language that is unknown to human beings.
4. A paradoxical space, at once open and closed, the theatre, where the verb rules the show.

(Commissioned by the French state for the GRM and the APREM)

Performance

• Double récital acousmatique → Mar 1, 2005