Ambisonic sound installation in collaboration with Simon Lehmans - Project in progress

Extracts from the first exposition during the festival FACTS of the University of Bordeaux in 2017

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Face à Phases makes the audience establish a relation with the sound scenery it is part of. Elaborated with the ambisonic spatialisation technique whose goal is to convey a sense a realism from an acoustic space recorded with a 360° microphone, we have used this technology in a different manner by using synthesized sounds only. Thereby, the sounds we hear does not correspond to a recognizable natural environment and are not a reproduction but a production of a an artificial scenery. Rather, this installation interrogates the existence of a border between artifice, virtual reality and the outside, the natural.

Beyond this relation with its sound environement, the audience is responsable of its hearing by wandering inside the six loudspeakers. It’s by moving that its perception of the sound surrounding it, through psychoacoustics, is changing. Then, the synthetic space is as significant in its senses as another one which would use much more figurative sound sources.

Finally, this work is a way to question the common use of “interaction” in sound installations. How it would be necessary to use sensors of position, light, movements and others, even though ours own sensors are vehicles for an important complexity on which it’s possible to work.