Since 2018, Julie Rousse has been traveling the Rhone River, with her microphones, hydrophones, piezoelectric sensors and seismographs, from the eponymous Glacier in Switzerland where it originates, to the Mediterranean Sea where it flows into the mouth at the Delta de Camargue.
The sound artist and composer proposes to consider the river as a living entity: Rhône - personified without being anthropomorphic, present in the form of a multitude with complex and organic entanglement, hybrid and sculptural - taking voice, making body.
It plunges the listeners into the symphonic fresco of the Rhone's sound biotope and invites them to enter into the experience: to listen, see and live the river.
In this multiphonic sound installation, an ever-changing work of art that is constantly changing according to the real-time data it receives from the river, the different strata of sounds recorded on the Rhône are superimposed, intermingled and responded to, in electroacoustic compositions where pure field recordings, experimental recordings, spoken words, electronic ripples, water, wind and the living intersect.
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
In partnership with the Friche la Belle de Mai and marseille objectif DansE
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.
Friche la Belle de Mai (Studio)
41 Jobin Street13003
Marseille
Julie Rousse
design and sound creation
Camille Mauplot
lighting design
Martin Saez
broadcasting and sound spatialization engineering