Category: Non classé

The installation Avec ou sans voix is a composite work and plays several sequences over a set of five speakers.
In the center, a speaker mounted on a pedestal emits voices whereas in the periphery four speakers (three on the floor on either sides and one hanging on the entrance wall) emit musical and sound atmospheres (as backgrounds or interludes). The sequences follow one another in different configurations: voices only, voices with music, music without voices, noises only, silences.

version with subtitles

Avec ou sans voix (Con voci e senza).
On the floor, near the center and in an indirect position, a video screen shows the written and synchronous translation. Italian translation by Centre Culturel Français de Turin.
 

On the same device with six speakers, the installation called Voix blanches is composed with three sound and musical sequences – including État liquide (Télépathie) – in bilingual version French/Italian.
The installation structures two acoustic perspectives: a background and a foreground which are shown according to an inverted logic. At first sight, four speakers concealed above the central space on an inner rooftop emit four musical and sound sequences which shower back down in the entrance and on the side parts and welcome the visitors. Further on, in the back section of an alcove, two speakers set up on the floor in an indirect position emit two voices (a woman and a female translator recorded on the phone, speaking Italian in reported speech). When the visitor find themself in the alcove, sat in front of the two speakers, the sounds coming from the roof can now be heard like a background, against which the voices stand out in the foreground.
Oral translation in Italian by Marina Melancorteci.

Les liens en sourdine is taken from the work Quant-a-soi, which has already engendered multiple versions about the same concept of invisible links, including Aloof, Proche, très proche, La main coupée, Les liens invisibles.
This is a sound installation with two speakers, two acoustics perspectives. A speaker on a pedestal in the first room diffuses the voice of a woman. Behind every word, a cry from the distance is diffused in an exact and synchronous way. 
Both sound presences are symmetrical – they are two opposing magnets that repel each other. Present on both sides of the gallery, they are heads or tails of the same coin, whose side is distended – the viewer is placed in between these two opposing things, leaving one to discover the other. 

version with subtitles

Les liens en sourdine (Attenuated bonds).
In this version for non-French-speaking countries, the sound stays the same (voice in French). 
Equidistant from the two sounds, a screen shows the synchronous and written translation of the words. English translation by Miles Hankin.

La lettre vide / The blank letter is a substruction, a king of censure.
Two speakers arranged on the ground diffuse the regular scansion of a voice, as if stifled or distorted, with a low and muffled sound, and whose speech is unintelligible to us.
On the wall, a screen shows one by one, and synchronously, the sentences (in black letters on a white background) that we can imagine correspond, like a direct translation, to the voice.
From these sentences taken from a letter (in which we can perceive the voice is speaking to an absent person), the essential is missing: many words are absent, as if erased, replaced by dashes.

The work exists in two versions: French and English (the sound remains the same, only the sentences on the screen change). English translation by Miles Hankin.