Premiere of creation during the Propagations 2023 festival
Since 2018, Julie Rousse has been traveling the Rhône, a giant river the size of two countries, with her microphones, hydrophones, piezoelectric sensors or seismographs - from the eponymous Glacier in Switzerland where it rises to the Mediterranean Sea where it flows out of the Camargue Delta.
The sound artist and composer proposes to consider the River as an entity in its own right: Rhone - personified without being anthropomorphic, present in the form of a multitude of complex and organic, hybrid and sculptural intricacies - taking on a voice, making a body.
It offers listeners the opportunity to enter the symphonic fresco of the Rhone's sound biotope and to immerse themselves in the experience: to listen to, see and experience the river as a living entity.
In this multiphonic sound installation, an ever-changing work of art that depends on the real-time data it receives, the different strata of sounds recorded on the Rhone are superimposed, intermingled and responded to in electroacoustic compositions that combine pure field recordings, experimental recordings, spoken words, electronic waves, and the matter of water, wind and life.
Executive productions
GMEM
Coproduction
Bipolar
Support for the commissioning and production of music concerts 2023
Sacem
Support
Ferme-Asile / Centre Artistique et Culturel ; Canton de Valais ; Maison de la Musique Contemporaine
Acknowledgements
ETHZ-VAW of Zürich ; Amandine Sargeant ; Christophe Ogier ; Pierre-Alain Oggier ; Dominik Graëff ; Muriel Borgeat ; Luce Moreau ; Cyril Laucournet ; Florent Kolandjian ; Radio Grenouille ; Mathieu Argaud ; Christian Sebille and all the GMEM team
Born in 1979 in Paris, lives and works in Marseille.
A passionate phonographer, Julie Rousse is always on the lookout for new sounds from the field, which she records with traditional or experimental sound capture systems, in selected and particular urban, natural or industrial contexts around the world.
Julie Rousse
conception, composition, creation
Camille Mauplot
lighting design
Martin Saez
broadcasting and sound spatialization engineering