Lise Lebleux

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.

Design, programming: Marianne Plano. Font: Leif Book, Store Norske Skriftkompani.

Composer avec leurs lieux Haute-Saône, France Hamburg, Germany Paris, France 2022

This series of sound episodes focuses on the special relationship between a person and a place that is important to them. Recording a person, and especially their voice, is based above all on a relationship of communication, listening and trust. The unique sonic imprint of an individual in their environment is manifested through their breathing, their gestures or the way the place reacts to their presence...

This series of sound episodes focuses on the special relationship between a person and a place that is important to them. Recording a person, and especially their voice, is based above all on a relationship of communication, listening and trust. The unique sonic imprint of an individual in their environment is manifested through their breathing, their gestures or the way the place reacts to their presence.

These people entrust me with a part of themselves; this gift, based on trust, gives rise to these intrinsic sound pieces, existing at specific times. The biologist and surgeon Henri Laborit wrote in his book Biology and Structure: ‘What is language, in fact, if not a means of storing the time and experience of past generations in a signal, usually sound or optical?

In this effort to work with the site itself, the broadcasting time of each episode corresponded to the time of the sound recording sessions. The sound recordings took place in Franche-Comté and Hamburg.

Radio play
*Duuu Radio, Paris, France

Hambourg.

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L'Affût.

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L'Apiculteur.

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La coupe du bois.

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Passage.

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Souvenir du puits.

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Außenalster, Hamburg, Germany.
Haute-Saône, France.
Haute-Saône, France.
Grotte Sarrazine, Nans-Sous-Sainte-Anne, France.