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. She works in several European countries, mainly Germany, Austria and France. Her artistic practice consists of creating sound compositions based on her own field recordings. Her artistic practice focuses in particular on the combinations between individuals and their acoustic environments. The idea is to follow these people as they listen to their working environment and to cross-reference these moments of sound with the wider acoustics of the area. In this way, each sound piece is the result of sound recordings of a specific and unique space, with its own intrinsic conditions.

Group exhibition on view until the end of September in Bad Ischl, in Austria, as part of the European Capitals of Culture 2024 :
https://www.salzkammergut-2024.at/en/projekte/430320376/

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
États des lieux France Germany 2022 — now
Composer avec leurs lieux Haute-Saône, France Hamburg, Germany 2022
Ces lieux d’à-côté Hamburg, Germany 2022
Gestes et lieux : une étude acoustique Glasgow, United‑Kingdom 2023
The Solitude of the Sound Recordist New‑York, USA 2021
Listen to the House Introduction Lyon, France Geneva, Switzerland 2020

Listen to the House Introduction Lyon, France Geneva, Switzerland 2020
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Listen to the house Introduction is a sound composition based on my field recordings made during a residency at the Villa Gillet in Lyon. The residency was directed by the musician and philosopher Agnès Gayraud, accompanied by the musician François Virot and the artist Clara Lemercier-Gemptel...

Listen to the house Introduction is a sound composition based on my field recordings made during a residency at the Villa Gillet in Lyon. The residency was directed by the musician and philosopher Agnès Gayraud, accompanied by the musician François Virot and the artist Clara Lemercier-Gemptel, who made video recordings throughout the residency. With the aim of keeping a trace, an archive of our time in this place, I tried to capture people's voices, their gestures and their daily musical experiments throughout the different rooms of the villa.

In his book Une histoire de la modernité sonore, Jonathan Sterne evokes this idea of sound archiving: "Sound recording has contributed́ to promoting both the ephemeral and the permanent in acoustic life. If we understand it in terms of its technical possibilities, repeatability is as central a technological characteristic as preservation.".

At the time of our residency, the place was completely empty, silence reigned, allowing us to hear the specific details of this large house, such as the creaking of the parquet floor in the attic, the slamming of doors or the large marble staircases in the main hall.

The sound composition was broadcast on the 5th floor radio station at the Centre d'Art Contemporain de Genève in Switzerland in 2020.