My compositions, based on sonic quests for territorial identities, are constructed not as a faithful reproduction of the recording locations, but as the result of a process of transformation and manipulation. I conceive listening situations where sounds are in decline, strange spaces raising a climate in peril. Sounds taken from the real world are used to place listeners in familiar acoustics that tip over into deconstructed landscapes where landmarks fade away. These spaces, anchored in reality but punctuated by musical and fictional passages, give rise to hybrid places in evolution. I see a sound installation as a gesture of adding a new sound membrane that connects the body and space through sound. I want to think of the sculptural form and the spatialisation of the sound installation as inseparable. The work of spatialising the sound is based on our perception of spaces, sensations and our inner selves, while at the same time relying on the architecture through which the sound will propagate. This propagation interferes with and reverberates on all the surrounding surfaces as well as against and within our own bodies. As we listen to sound, our bodies absorb it, resonating beneath our flesh and in our bones.
Contact: lebleuxlise@gmail.com.
Portfolio available here in pdf.