Stones, Air, Axioms / Delme
dal 12/2/2015 al 23/3/2015
Segnalato da
12/2/2015
Stones, Air, Axioms / Delme
Centre d'art contemporain la Synagogue de Delme, Delme
In 2006, at a time when they were both active in the field of experimental and improvised music, Jean-Luc Guionnet and Thomas Tilly came to know each other through their shared interest in relationships between sound and architecture
The centre d’art contemporain – la synagogue de Delme is pleased to announce the exhibition Stones, Air, Axioms / Delme by Jean-Luc Guionnet and Thomas Tilly.
In 2006, at a time when they were both active in the field of experimental and improvised music, Jean-Luc Guionnet and Thomas Tilly came to know each other through their shared interest in relationships between sound and architecture. In 2010 they created the first stage of the project Stones, Air, Axioms at the Poitiers Cathedral using its organ (a Clicquot organ of exceptional quality) to make it resonate through the whole building.
From the outset, they conceived of this sound installation as the first phase of a long-term research project more specifically linked to religious architecture. Following a second instalment at the Corpus Christi Basilica in Krakow, Delme is the third phase of their project.
By virtue of its history and exceptional acoustics, Delme’s former synagogue is the ideal setting for a customised, on-site sound installation. Jean-Luc Guionnet and Thomas Tilly are deliberately leaving the place empty, giving visitors an experience of both visual and sound architecture. By supplementing the built space with frequencies, as well as voices, instrumental notes, rhythms and silences, the artists offer everyone a special listening situation: whether this listening is drifting or attentive, static or mobile, it is guaranteed to give visitors a different perception of the place, which is remoulded by the volume of air it contains and by the sound travelling through it.
The “score” of Stones, Air, Axioms / Delme was composed partly from architectural drawings, whose principal measurements were translated into sounds and waves, and partly from recordings of voices and instruments, which spread through the space.
The voices in question mix different languages both familiar and foreign, comprehensible and incomprehensible. They are not just abstract sound materials, but also vehicles of a meaning that fades away in the succession of its echoes. From Dogon prayer translated from one language to another, to the personal account of a mystical experience, these voices combine to form an architecture of sounds and signs favourable to the decompartmentalisation of all the senses.
Image: Invitation Design: deValence.
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Pierre Viellard: communication@cac-synagoguedelme.org
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