1 - "Ode au métal", 2011
Live Gaël Angelis and Magali Sanheira
Electroacoustic performance. 18min 07s
2 - "Ode au métal", 2011
Original soudtrack by Gaël Angelis
Vidéo HD. 21min 23s.
Curator Artaïs _ Journées Européennes du Patrimoine / European Days of the Inheritance _ Nanterre
FR//
“ Il s’agit de faire un monde étonnant, aux formes variées qui suscite le plaisir et l’enchantement. Le métal se prête parfaitement à cette option. (…)
Le métal provoque l’imagination parce qu’il est exigeant, parce qu’avec lui rien ne va de soi.
La contrepartie positive en est une gymnastique formelle, des superpositions hétérogènes, une conquête de l’espace, une fiction géométrique concrétisée.” [1]
Jacques Kalisz[1] Extrait de l’article “Ode au métal”. Revue d’Architecture Française Numéro 394 – Novembre 1975
Cette citation de Kalisz s’appliquant à l’architecture peut tout aussi bien s’adresser à la musique, le lien entre architecture et musique étant l’acoustique.
Reprenant certaines notions de son manifeste “Ode au métal”, le projet consiste à mettre un lieu -l’ancienne école d’architecture de Nanterre- en perspective, à partir d’éléments visuels et sonores recueillis sur son territoire.
Il s’agit de créer nouvel espace visuel et acoustique pour mettre en exergue la trace de l’histoire inscrite sur ces murs, toits, sols, charpentes, vitres.
Nous avons capté des empreintes sonores des ruines du bâtiment et de ses alentours, samplé ses formes, ses trous, ses bosses, à travers sa propre structure.
Les microphones: capteurs champs magnétiques, DPA, micro de surface.
Aucun traitement de signal n’a été ajouté.
Le bâtiment ainsi amplifié produit une musique organique, entre musique improvisée, concrète et industrielle.
La caméra traverse les murs et les portes de ces vestiges architecturaux marquant la modernité d’une certaine époque (1972).
EN//
“ Iit is a question of making an astonishing world, with the varied forms which causes the pleasure and the enchantment. Metal lends itself perfectly to this option. (…)
Metal causes imagination because it is demanding, because with him nothing goes from oneself.
The positive counterpart is a formal gymnastics, heterogeneous superpositions, a space conquest, a concretized geometrical fiction.” [1]
Jacques Kalisz
[1] Extract of the article “Ode to metal”. Revue d’Architecture Française N° 394 – Novembre 1975
This quotation of Kalisz applying to architecture can be just as easily addressed to the music, the bond between architecture and music being acoustics.
Taking again certain concepts of its proclamation “Ode au metal”, the project consists in putting a place - the old school of architecture of Nanterre- in prospect, starting from visual and sound elements collected on its territory.
We collected prints of the ruins of the building and its neighbourhoods, sampled its forms, its holes, its bumps and collected objects on the site which will be used to us as instruments.
From the collected combinative elements, we set up a sound and video device, between electroacoustic performance and installation.
We will carve a new visual and acoustic space to put forward the trace of the history registered on these walls, roofs, grounds, frames, panes.
Our intention is to invite the spectator to an ambulation among architectural vestiges marking modernity of a certain time (1972) .
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