Lise Lebleux

Based on sonic quests for territorial identities, my compositions 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.

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Das ist der Kuckuck (I listen to whether the bells are sick) Bad Reichenhall, Germany 2025
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The composition explores the sonic relationship between the German musician and organist Matthias Roth and his environment: the Protestant church in Bad Reichenhall, Germany. A specialist in listening to church bells, Matthias uses...

The composition explores the sonic relationship between the German musician and organist Matthias Roth and his environment: the Protestant church in Bad Reichenhall, Germany. A specialist in listening to church bells, Matthias uses his tuning fork to test their frequencies, revealing their unique resonances and timbres. Although French is not his first language, he told me with sincerity: J’écoute pour savoir si les cloches sont malades (I’m listening to whether the bells are sick). Listening is an omnipresent notion in his life. This deeply musical piece combines the deep vibrations of the organ, amplified by the church's acoustics, with the bells that punctuate the village soundscape - always inhabited by Matthias' attentive presence.

Radio play
Recorded in Bad Reichenhall, Germany

One of the versions of the play will be broadcast on Radiophrenia 2025 in Glasgow, UK, on 14 April 2025 at 1.45pm
https://radiophrenia.scot/listen/