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I love nothing more than listening

and sharing sounds in the great outdoors.

I enjoy freely roaming open spaces

with my eyes and ears,

these ears which also have ear-eyes.

Setting out to explore a territory on foot,

to walk and take my ears (and a public's)

to every nook and cranny of the landscape,

to seek out specific listening points,

the unheard-of,

or simply to capture the banality

and its trivial poetics in unexpected dimensions,

because they are still unheard,

or simply given to be heard,

differently.

Yet here, I would like to come and listen to a closed space,

a building, its constituent elements, its structure.

To offer a performed installation.

A concert of spaces giving sound

to a moving audience,

the native - or reinvented - acoustics

of a place conceived as much as a landscape

as an instrument

as a collaborator

with whom I would improvise in a duet,

with it alone,

and entirely at its listening.

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Listening to this architecture

as one would listen to any open sound environment,

with walls included...

Envisioning these walls as surfaces that,

instead of imprisoning sounds,

are there only to let them breathe,

resonate, and reverberate.

In order to reveal the (almost) silences

that reside within, sheltered.

And

since there is no wall that is not porous,

open to the outside, beyond its function,

listening through them,

to the vibrations of a world

that presents itself

-always-

to be heard

behind,

through,

beyond the walls.

Making audible the organicity,

sonic vitality,

and vibrancy of the building which,

like any larger ecosystem,

is inhabited by numerous species in conflict,

in symbiosis, in equilibrium:

flows,

fluids,

currents,

waves,

bodies,

materials...

In a play of framing

and re-framing,

of perspectives

and overturning of perspectives,

through the tracing of new lines of escape

but also the opening onto invisible horizons,

gradually revealing this place

as a landscape:

an architectural sound landscape.

Then, recomposing this landscape

through the resonances,

the escapes offered by the different rooms,

in their succession,

their superposition,

their proximity,

their distance.

Ultimately, our aim could be summarized as

deconstructing this edifice

through a novel sound plan:

a sound archi_texture.