INSTALLATION

Acousmatic Clean Space

Mathias Durand & Julia Stern

Curated by Jaya Ramchandani

 

Venue: Fundação Oriente
Time: 10:30 – 20:00

Acousmatic sound and music has developed from the Pythagorean idea that in order to fully concentrate on and appreciate audio, you should not be able to see where it is coming from.

In this interactive installation, Mathias and Julia invited participants to experience a ‘clean space’. They were asked to enter it with a specific subject or question in mind which they then placed in the room.

Participants walked through this installation and discovered sounds coming from different objects or materials in their surroundings. These sounds— voices, music, soundscapes, were invitations to link personal memories, thoughts or feelings with the participant’s understanding of the space.

The associations that participants made between the inner space and the surrounding space produced new knowledge and viewpoints about their initial question. This clean space installation helped reveal to participants unexpected and helpful information which related to the question or subject they kept in mind at the starting point.

SUPPORTED BY:

Julia Stern

Julia is a sound and visual artist, composer of acousmatic music and therapist in Ericksonian hypnosis and clean language. Both as an artist and as a therapist, her work bears on Presence, sensory perceptions, introspective explorations, and immersive experiences. Creative and maïeutic processes are the heart of her approaches. She has studied Photo and Video at Ensad in Paris, then at Le Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts Contemporains, and acousmatic music at the CRD of Pantin.
She has studied Clean Language and Symbolic Modelisation at Terres Inconnues, then Ericksonian Hypnosis at Noesis Institute.

Mathias Durand

Mathias is a French composer, producer and singer-songwriter. At five, he learned to play the piano from his grandmother Félicie Duriez, after which, he started to play the guitar and sing. From 2006 to 2010, he studied acousmatic composition with Régis Renouard-Larivière in the conservatory Erik Satie in Paris. He released his debut album Broken Letters in 2008, followed in 2013 by another album titled ‘Caïn’under the name IT. In the summer of 2009 in Calcutta, he started his training in Indian classical music with Pandit Santanu Bandyopadhyay. In 2013, he learnt the sitar from Sri Shubo Chakraborty. He has also played guitar and sung  with Alacazas Jasey, IT, John Ulysses Mitchell, Joseph Leon and nowadays with the Indo-French band Tritha Electric.

https://www.mathiasdurand.com/

Partners and Supporters

We thank you for your support!

GOVERNMENT PARTNERS

COMMUNITY PARTNER

DEVICE PARTNER

 

GOVERNMENT PARTNERS

COMMUNITY PARTNER

DEVICE PARTNER

 

EMBASSY AND CULTURAL SUPPORT

SILVER SPONSORS

PROJECT PARTNERS

EDUCATION PARTNERS

COLLATERALS

RESIDENCY / HOSPITALITY PARTNERS

PUBLIC RELATIONS PARTNER

RESIDENCY / HOSPITALITY PARTNERS

PUBLIC RELATIONS PARTNER

TRANSLATION PARTNER