For its first edition, Parisonic addresses current issues in our relationship to what surrounds us, by presenting the work of artists for whom sound is the medium, material and vehicle of attention, sensitivity and a questioning of this environment.
Deriving from radio and documentary practices, the "field recording" (sound environment recordings) is now investing the visual arts through multiple forms overflowing and opening wide its original documentary field.
Attentive to the world around the so-called 'sound artists' pay special attention to the context of appearence of their work and often create that work depending on this environment, whether social, acoustic, architectural or political.
Various approaches and contexts are the focus of attention of these artists:
- Sounds produced by living aquatic and terrestrial animals, activity at the edge of science and ecology.
- Natural phenomena: a flowing river, wind and gusts, melting ice...
- 'Natural' soundscapes, echoes in the mountains, the desert sound space, singing dunes...
- Urban environments, each city has got a sound "signature", acoustic of a place, crossing points...
- Inaudible sounds: hydrophony, electromagnetic radiations, ultrasounds...
- Architecture: vibrations in the elements of the exhibition space, in a building ...
- Fiction, anticipations: "cinema for the ear" convenes the sounds of the real radio to make create radiophonic pieces, or conceptual ones... that drawns into the here and now the elsewhere and the future.
- Human relationships and stories.
All resultant practices, recording and broadcasting "as is" (known as sonography as a "sound photographie"), mixing environments, fiction and radio dramas, audio documentaries (...) have in common an attention to the world, the palce of mankind, a sensitivity to the environment.
Parisonic proposes to explore thoses practices by inviting artists whose singular work speaks directly of our relationship to the world. |