As part of the exhibition Colère Divine presented at the Musica festival, Strasbourg (67)
From 2018 to 2020, Christian Sebille, composer and sound artist, was invited in residence by Cirva - International Research Center for Glass and Plastic Arts. After researching forms and their acoustic signatures, the composer developed a project for a glass orchestra and an immersive sound installation. In this research, glass is both an object and a membrane of acoustic diffusion. Each blown form, by definition unique, releases a singular sound wave, looped, transformed and propagated by glass speakers.
"We are in an enclosed space where the glass pieces, awakened by slave mechanisms, propagate their sonic identity. Lights sweep the space. Nothing seems fixed. Ten tables present unique, inert pieces, until the action of the striker. The breath of the glass artists is extended by sound. Matter moves from solid to vibrant, from frozen breath to resounding expansion. Sounds propagate in space, mixing between their zones of propagation. The movement of resonance requires the listener to stand still and observe. You are in a decided place in your listening, at a point in the orchestra, close to what is strong, far from what is distant."
The audience takes part in an unheard-of journey that leads to an absence of the human, an awakened and autonomous mechanic.
- Christian Sebille
Christian Sebille is a composer and artistic director of the GMEM in Marseille. He works on the realization of sound installations in situ, in particular within the framework of a series entitled Miniatures. The place of sound capture is linked to the place of its diffusion in a ratio of space compression (reduction of the diffusion space in relation to the capture space) and temporal reduction (ratio of capture time / diffusion time). Moreover, he works on the concrete sound and on the capacity of the material to be in itself its own diffuser (the instrumental object). The radiation of the material and the movement of the object (sound) play with each other.
CEAAC - Centre européen d'actions artistiques contemporaines (67)
7 Rue de l'Abreuvoir67000
Strasbourg
VERNISSAGE
Sat. September 9, 2023 | 6:30 pm
OPENING OF THE INSTALLATION
Sun. 10 - Sun. September 24, 2023
(Wednesday to Sunday only)
2:00 pm to 6:00 pm
LOCATION
CEAAC - Centre européen d'actions artistiques contemporaines, Strasbourg (67)
RATE
Free admission
Christian Sebille
design and composition
Collectif Sonopopée
composed of
Maxime Lance
Vivien Trelcat
Nicolas Canot
mechanical and digital generative device
Cirva team
production and realization of glass
Matthieu Girard
wood and metal construction
Damien Ripoll
general management
Benoît Fremaux
general and stage management