"Any noise heard for a long time becomes a voice"
- Victor Hugo, Fragments

"In the early morning, on the Rhône, everything is pink. This color that dominates the sunrise and sunset invades the whole sky. It announces the Mistral wind which will come to blow again and again powerfully until it erodes us like stones.
I recorded the effects of this North wind on the river stop, everything creaks, the boats move as in the open sea, enormous waves lick the mooring posts.

The reeds that move with the wind are everywhere in this region specializing in basketry. As I explore this isolated corner of Provence in search of sounds, on the side of the road, near the river, I see gypsies peeling the large stems of wicker and swarming the white plumes in the wind.
I pass on my way, promising myself to come back and see them, to sit with them so that they can tell me how they live from this activity in total disuse, to listen to the sound of their working hands.

I am currently looking for raw, less documentary sounds, from experimental processes, like recording sounds underwater with my hydrophones, mixing techniques to capture a moment, a place, an element. All these intangible and abstract things that resemble sculpture. As if sound were a clay to be modelled.
We are near the Vallabrègues dam, the last lock before the sea. There it is the raw force, the "Liquid Force" of water. I make recordings of the electromagnetic sphere at this place where the power that emerges from the streams that gush out of the dam is stored in the enormous accumulators from which powerful cables come out that supply the whole country." - Julie Rousse

At the center of the project Une voix Parcourt le Rhône, begun in 2019, is the question of water, which has become essential, and which reminds us that natural resources are limited and precious. In 2020, Julie Rousse will travel the river between the Furka Glacier, where it originates, and its mouth in the Camargue Delta - in order to continue the sound recordings mixing traditional and experimental techniques, according to a fine geographical mesh. Following the example of these rivers recently endowed with the title of "living entity", she tries to make emerge and give body to the voice of the river in an audiovisual installation driven by real time data.