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ÉCOSYSTÈME(S)

self-interactive
sound installation
2019
Écosysteme(s) is a self-interactive sound installation inspired by the communication techniques of orthopteran insects. Placed on a listening desk, about twenty speakers of different models broadcast sound samples whose spectra and behaviours are inspired by bug songs. This device allows a global listening point of a sound microcosm. Thanks to two listening microphones and a trigger and threshold system, each sample enters or disappears, depending on the « sonic space » it can occupy. The audience is thus taken into consideration and its sound presence modifies the behaviour of the environment that tries to find a balance. The form is vivid and unpredictable, in a hesitation between naturalist and artificial landscape, between chaotic sound swarms and formed patterns. It invites attentive listening and silence.