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.

Solitude of the sound recordist New‑York, USA 2021
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During the sound recording sessions, my body, whether static or moving, orients itself to the events that question it, pointing at the microphone like a finger pointing at the landscape. Breathing, the sound of our footsteps and the many material jolts are an important part of my research into sound...

During the sound recording sessions, my body, whether static or moving, orients itself to the events that question it, pointing at the microphone like a finger pointing at the landscape. Breathing, the sound of our footsteps and the many material jolts are an important part of my research into sound.

The sound recording is the result of a succession of choices, such as the type of microphone, the location and our position in front of the sound source. In this moment of active listening, our ears are on the alert, on the lookout for every sound they can perceive. When we record a landscape, the sounds are condensed into a single sound material, but when we listen, they are perpetually in motion,
almost elusive.

The text Nature is Sound, featured in the piece, was written and delivered by French musician and philosopher Agnès Gayraud.

Radio play
Montez Press Radio, New York, United States
https://radio.montezpress.com/#/show/2268

Barrage du Gouffre d'Enfer, Planfoy, France.