Musical piece for laptop and performance, 2004
Original title : Vers Agrippine
To Agrippine is based on the very beginning of Handel’s opera Agrippina. It is performed as a solo piece, and it has been initially created as the overture of the theater play Agrippina – stage version to be performed anywhere, directed by Frédéric Fisbach – which was also played before the opera itself.
This piece experimented for the first time with a concept of time depth: a real time navigation through the temporality of music. An extremely slow gesture with the mouse produces a simultaneous navigation through three musical layers: the first orchestral part of the opera overture, the first spoken sentence in the recitatives, and the first soprano aria. This slow-motion movement within the musical materials reveals their lines of forces and details, as the aerial approach to a landscape.
To Agrippine has been performed recently for the opening of the exhibitionFermata in Kawenga (Montpellier, France), on October 23th, 2009.
Duration 12′. With the voices of Hiromi Asaï and Véronique Gens. Photograph Frédéric Nauczyciel. Related to:
Fermata,
Siren,
Reanimation – See also the
credits page.
Extract (2007)
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Interactive sound installation sonore, 2004
Original title : Machine Histoires
The Garden of the Navel is a collective project based on an imaginary mythology that ironically names Pougne-Hérisson (a hamlet of 200 inhabitants) as the homeland of tales, where “all stories come from, and where they should come back to. The Stories Machine is an interactive sound installation which composes a soundscape with the stories that the visitors leave themselves. Several microphones are placed in the garden, in which visitors are invited to leave a story of their own, lasting anything from a few seconds to a few minutes, that will then be stored by the installation. As soon as it has been recorded, each story lives its own life and occupies the space. The lifetime of a story is unlimited: it is always heard immediately after it has been recorded, but it may reappear weeks or months later.??The space of the Garden develops and grows with time: it is nurtured, visited and searched by the visitors themselves, like a talking landscape, organic and unpredictable.
