This project is part of an artistic research called The Excitation of the Landscape, which takes shape through gatherings, questions, music, publications, and performative pieces exploring our relationship with the territory.
To excite the landscape is to excite our gaze and our listening. It means increasing the visual and sonic saturation of what we know to give it tension and energy. It is about generating a slight distance from the familiar to open space for other ways of being. It is about bringing elements into relation that move our eyes, our skin, our ears In essence, it is about producing a sensitive and conceptual vibration toward the landscapes we attend to.
Three times of day, three pieces This excitation is composed of three pieces, each one corresponding to a specific moment of the day: morning, afternoon, and night. Each proposes a different way of relating to the landscape, through a sensory and performative experience.
MORNING
Ideally, this piece takes place in a natural space where a river once flowed, but no longer does —whether due to terrain changes or seasonal shifts.
This excitation focuses on the idea of camouflage and how to generate a soundscape that is both artificial and natural, performed live in the environment.
AFTERNOON
The afternoon piece unfolds as a walk along the river.
Along this path, various stops offer different soundscapes —musical and non-musical— that propose a new relationship with what we see.
By intertwining what we hear and what we observe, we aim to excite the landscape.
NIGHT
This excitation takes place in a spot of still waters —a lake, a pool, or a calm river section.
It becomes a space for the appearance of a creature that is half swamp monster, half siren, embodying a nocturnal fantasy tied to the mystery and imagined presence of the landscape.
