Lise Lebleux

Lise Lebleux, was born in 1998 in Vesoul, Haute-Saône. She graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts (ENSBA) in Lyon.

I traverse a territory in search of the acoustic specifics that are unique to it, and I attempt to record the unique sonic connections that exist between the residents and their environments. This study involves following individuals who invite me to listen to their environment of activity or life, and intersecting these sonic moments with the broader acoustics of the territory. Recording the presence and speech of a person is primarily based on a relationship of communication and trust, and it allows for the preservation of a sonic trace. The biologist and surgeon Henri Laborit explains in his book Biologie et Structure that: "What is language, indeed, if not a means of preserving the time and experience of past generations in a signal, most often sonic or optical?" Thus, each sound piece created results from the recordings of a specific and unique time, with its intrinsic conditions.

My site-specific sound installations are created using the specific acoustic, architectural and historical features of the exhibition venues. I seek to establish direct links between the places of recording and those of exhibition and dissemination. The French philosopher Bastien Gallet has left his mark on my sound installation practice. In his book Composer des étendues, he writes that "Installing sounds means composing an expanse and its encounter with a place ’.

Contact: lebleuxlise@gmail.com.

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

Sounds of the valley - Klänge des Tals Bad Ischl, Austria 2024

Auf der Suche nach Echo - En quête d'Écho Salzburg, Austria 2023

Fiselaée Auberville‑la‑Renault, France 2023

Ces lieux d’à côté Hamburg, Germany 2022 - 2023

Ces lieux d'à côté remix Glasgow, United‑Kingdom 2023

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

The Solitude of the Sound Recordist New‑York, USA 2021

Listen to the House Introduction Lyon, France Geneva, Switzerland 2020

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

Composer avec leurs lieux is a series of sound episodes created in a short three-minute format. Each episode focuses on the particular relationship between a person and a place that is important to them. This study focuses on several people associated with their places, individuals who have granted me the right to come and record them in their everyday and singular working spaces. Recording a person, and in particular their voice, is above all based on a relationship of communication, listening and trust. The idea is to record the unique sound imprint of an individual in his or her environment: an echo, a breath, a gesture, as well as the sounds specific to the location. During the recording sessions, the person and I are attentive and sensitive to the sound environment around us. The person tries to describe and tell me about the sounds in their space, and guides me during the recordings towards certain sounds that have aroused their interest.

The sound composition is also made up of the wider sounds present in the area. I try to extend this acoustic relationship to the particular sounds of the landscape, such as the echo of mountains or the seashore. Each space has its own acoustic characteristics. We hear not the sound itself, but the resonance of the sound in the space. Each sound is therefore marked by the space in which it emerges; it has the imprint of the place, without which we would not be able to hear it. In his book Composer des étendues, Bastien Gallet explains that : A sound space is always a mixture of expanse and place, an expanse resonating in a place. We call this mixture a ‘state of place’.

The episodes were broadcast over the course of a week, and at the rate of one a day on *Duuu Radio in Paris, 2022. As part of this process of working with the site itself, the broadcast time of each episode corresponded to the time of the sound recording sessions.