call for projects 2025

AIR NOISE

APPLICATION / SOUND INSTALLATION

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The sound installation Le bruit de l'air, based on a geolocation application developed for Art Zoyd Studios by and with the Mu collective. Inaugurated on Saturday September 16 during the 2023 Heritage Days on the Parvis Gérard Hourbette (Place du Phénix Scène Nationale de Valenciennes), the app is available on Google Play and Apple Store.

production / direction Art Zoyd Studios
with the support of Phénix scène nationale and the City of Valenciennes
development Collectif Mu and Art Zoyd Studios
RIM Oudom Southammavong

Scan the QR code below to download the app and discover the 2023 and 2024 creations, designed for an immersive musical stroll on the Gérard Hourbette square. The pieces can also be listened to from home.

2023, first creation, Jérôme Soudan

Immersive listening to a sound creation based on music by Gérard Hourbette (Art Zoyd)
More than just a mix of Gérard Hourbette's pieces, this assembly of extracts from the composer's works from different periods constitutes a new immersive piece enabling you to wander through the particular sound universe of the mastermind behind the Art Zoyd group. During the 20 years I spent with Gérard, references to the composer and philosopher John Cage were omnipresent. Everything is in everything, every minimalist sound contains every other sound on the planet. This complex universe, born of the singular sound of a violin string and moving towards a world of multiples, is Gérard's own, and I've often referred to it as "macro music". So let's penetrate the music of this major composer again and again, using this immersive experience, moving towards his diverse sonorities, his profound research into endless experimentation, his visions, his samplers, his violin, his humor, and finally let ourselves be guided by his music, which transcends us and fills us with his presence.
Jérôme Soudan, 2023

2024, second creation, Philippe Macnab-Séguin

For the second edition of Le bruit de l'air, I was inspired by the concept of a web of rhythms and melodies that interweave and constantly transform. Walking around the Parvis Gérard Hourbette, you discover different rhythmic layers which, depending on where you are and when you arrive, may or may not synchronize into a clear metrical grid. However, as we approach a central point on the forecourt where all these layers converge, they seem to fall into place, forming a vast, complex yet coherent whole. We have the illusion of a tempo that continually slows down, with rhythms and harmonies that are in a constant state of flux, never settling into stability.
Philippe Macnab-Séguin, 2024

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