Métamorphoses is a multiphonic sound installation inviting viewers to immerse themselves in the world of the Rhône River.

Since 2018, Julie Rousse has been traveling the Rhône with her multitude of sensors (microphones, hydrophones, piezoelectric or seismographs) from the eponymous Glacier where it rises in Switzerland, to its mouth at the Camargue Delta, where it flows into the Mediterranean Sea.

The composer immerses listeners in the symphonic fresco of the Rhone biotope, inviting them to enter into the experience: to listen to, see and experience the river as a living entity, personified without being anthropomorphic: Rhone - presented as a complexly interwoven, organic, hybrid and sculptural multitude of sounds - taking on a voice, a body.

In this multiphonic installation, a pervasive and generative work that changes according to the data it receives in real time, the different strata of sounds recorded on the Rhône are superimposed, intermingled and responded to. In the electroacoustic compositions, pure field-recordings, experimental recordings and spoken word, the electronic ripples of water, wind and life meet.