Immersive sound installation for 8.1 speakers
Field recordings & spatialised device
The ‘Listening Room’, dedicated to the the sound art department, is moving to a new location in a room overlooking the Rhône, inviting contemplation and listening. On this occasion, the museum invites sound artist Julie Rousse to present her sound installation MÉTAMORPHOSES. This work is a multiphonic and immersive installation inviting the viewer to experience the sound universe of the Rhône River, a symphonic fresco that allows its voice to be heard, bringing the elements of life into dialogue.
Since 2018, Julie Rousse has been travelling the Rhône with her microphones, hydrophones, piezoelectric sensors and seismographs, crossing two countries from its eponymous glacier in Switzerland - where it has its source - to the Mediterranean Sea where it flows into the Camargue Delta.
MÉTAMORPHOSES is a powerful work in which the different layers of sounds recorded on the Rhône overlap, intertwine and respond to each other, combining pure field recordings, experimental recordings and the electronic undulations of water and living matter in electroacoustic compositions.
Executive production by GMEM — Centre national de création musicale de Marseille Link
Thursday 29 January at 6.30pm Exclusive meeting with sound artist Julie Rousse.
Free, by reservation only, before Wednesday 28 January on 04 90 49 37 58 or reattu.reservation@ville-arles.fr
