In or in front a landscape
sound performance with 2 or several speakers
2006/…

outdoor session or from indoors
duration 30 or 45 minutes or more

in front of the mountain: Les trois temps, Chapelle Saint-Jacques – Trente + 1, Médiathèque de Saint-Gaudens, 2023
in front of the street: François Villon public library, Paris, 2019
in front of the sea : La voix dans le vide, Route panoramique, Villa Brugère, Arromanches-lès-Bains, 2017
in front of a lake: Un faible pour la lac, Bois de sculptures, CIAP, Île-de-Vassivière, 2015
in a public garden: Festival GMEM, Campagne Pastré park, Marseille, 2013
in a public garden: abbaye de Maubuisson park, Saint-Ouen-l’Aumône, 2009
in front of a lake: Un faible pour la lac, Festival Ondulations, Transat Vidéo, Saint-Laurent-de-Tergatte, 2006

version with 16 speakers and 6 listening situations
in a public garden: Program Habiter le lieu, Prieuré St-Cosme, 2021 (cur. Anne-Laure Chamboissier) 

With this principle of a listening session in or facing a landscape, several works, in different formats (number of speakers) and durations (more or less long), can be and have already been broadcast: Les trois temps, La voix dans le vide, Un faible pour le lac…

outdoor listening session

The audience is seated, gathered in front of several speakers
and facing or in a landscape. The listening is stereo, distracted
or focused, environmental and narrative and based on the contemplation and the immersion in the place. 
The voices, the sound and musical elements, the silences, maintain a relationship of rupture, dialogue and coincidence with the sounds naturally or accidentally produced by the place and
the distance.
Several spoken, musical and landscape sound pieces following each other up give rise to a long open and fragmented story.

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1 abbaye de Maubuisson, 2009 – photo D.P. / 2 St-Laurent-de-Tergatte, 2006 – photo D.P. / 3 Île-de-Vassivière, 2015 – photo Muriel Meunier 

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from indoors

The session can also take place indoors, facing a cityscape or landscape, with privileged views of the distance, the sea, the mountains or the city.

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Club de plongée YCPW, Villa Brugère, Arromanches-lès-Bains, 2017 – photos Madeleine Decaux

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Médiathèque de Saint-Gaudens, Chapelle Saint-Jacques, 2023 –  photos Édouard Decam

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François Villon public library, Paris, 2019 – photo Philippe Diaz

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version with 16 speakers and 6 listening situations

Partly live (improvised mixing from a central point at certain times) and partly fixed, this sound action in the landscape uses a set of 10 speakers on pedestal, distributed by 2 or by 4 according to different points of view, and offers several listening situations: individual or collective, mobile or fixed, sitting on benches, deckchairs or cushions, in fee, short or long durations.

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Prieuré St-Cosme-demeure de Ronsard, Tours – photos D.P. except 12-16 Anne-Laure Chamboissier and 7-17 Xavier Selva