La voix mobile is a studio-scale recreation of some of the sound installations I have been creating for several years, featuring voices, sounds, a few musical elements, and silences.
It features an interview with Irène Omélianenko and was composed as a work in its own right, recorded and broadcast in binaural sound (best listened to with headphones to fully appreciate the spatial effects).
Several anonymous voices, of different ages, each in its own world; various modes of speech (choppy, paused, or relaxed) or simple sounds (breaths, exhalations, whistles)—these sounds probe the void, inhabit the space, tell their own stories, and make an attempt, from the farthest reaches to the very nearest, to reach our innermost selves, our thoughts. This work brings to life a series of disorienting listening experiences in which voices, sounds, and musical elements intertwine, combine, or interact from a distance to construct a long, open-ended, and fragmented narrative.
It unfolds a miniature geography of vocal gestures, wordplay, fragmented words, monologues, distant dialogues, dotted melodies, drafts, and brief openings onto the outside world. And silence, a recurring motif, plays its role as a pause, a connecting link, and a breath.