Deep Organum is an immersive work that takes the form of a sonic wandering for children. It is built around a forest of metallic pipes that are vertically arranged and coupled through a superstructure so as to resonate sympathetically. The resonance of the pipes, along with the noise created by the room environment itself, is amplified and processed so as to create an oneiric soundscape inside which children are immersed and onto which they can project their own inner world. They can in effect touch the pipes, creep into the forest, generating their own personal path.

In the second version of the installation that was exhibited at On The Edge festival in Kontovel, a village on the slovenian-italian border. We leave the world of childhood, sounds were based on a collection samples we recorded in various places of the region of Trieste, as well as in Kontovel/Contovello’s cemetery. All these samples are related to the specific border situation of Kontovel/Contovello that was somehow inherited from WWII and then from the cold war era.

By Clémence Martel & Syd Reynal

Produced and Curated by Centre Pompidou for Couleur en rythme event – 11.2022/ 02.2023

Other exibition : Trieste – On The Edge festival , 06.2023