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.

Portfolio available here in pdf.

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

Stille in drei Akten Vienna, Austria 2025

Integrated into a three-part composition, each part refers to an aspect of silence specific to the city of Vienna: silence in the air, silence on the earth‘s surface and silence underground...

Integrated into a three-part composition, each part refers to an aspect of silence specific to the city of Vienna: silence in the air, silence on the earth‘s surface and silence underground. The meeting of the landscapes and the sounds intrinsic to my presence in the sound recordings reveal the hidden silences.

The first part, Die Stille der Luft, evokes the ethereal, atmospheric, celestial silence of Vienna. The infinite depth of landscape and silence merge, the different sound environments blending into a single breath, suspended in aerial space.

The second part, Die irdische Stille, evokes the silence present on the surface of the earth in precisely chosen structured, urban and delimited places. Listening is contrasted between silent sounds recorded in the archive room and sounds such as the screams of the Prater amusement park.

The third part, Die unterirdische Stille, retraces my progress through the Hermannshöhle cave and focuses on the silence present in the underground passages. As you enter the cave, the silence intensifies and becomes conducive to hallucinations.

Radio play
Commissioned and broadcast by Radio Ö1 Kunstradio in Vienna, Austria
Archive of the broadcast on the Ö1 Kunstradio website: https://oe1.orf.at/programm/20250227/786002/Geraeusche-der-Stille

Die Stille der Luft.

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Die irdische Stille.

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Die unterirdische Stille.

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Neusiedler See, Neusiedl am See, Austria
Donauinsel, Vienna, Austria
Wiener Prater, Vienna, Austria
Die Hermannshöhle, Ofenbach, Austria