Le bruit de fond
RhizoRythme
From Sunday, January 28 to Sunday, February 2, 2025 , the MIM welcomes back La Semaine du Son/De Week van de Klank with a temporary exhibition of two sound installations on the theme of Sub Terra.
Le bruit de fond I Thibaut Jehanne
Recorded using a microphone dedicated to recording earthquakes, Le bruit de fondis a field recording of the ground in the Union district of Tourcoing. A vast wasteland awaiting new housing, the Union district still bears the residue of industrial activity that has been dormant since the 1970s. This industrial pollution of the soil was the starting point for the artist, who in this composition invites us to turn our ears to underground sound activity. In this 20-minute piece, Thibault Jehanne has turned his attention to what the soil tells him, proposing a soundscape of urban vibrations. He listened to the vibrations of a tree and construction site barriers in the wind.
Born in 1989, Thibault Jehanne is a video and sound artist. He lives and works in Caen (France). Through the creation of soundscapes, he studies slowness and seeks to share time for contemplation, reflection and listening – a time to pause. Driven by the discovery of new territories and new forms, Thibault Jehanne explores narrative and writes stories of contemplation in movement. Whether exhibited, performed or published, his works are journeys through spaces with which he comes into contact.
RhizoRythme I Prosépin
RhizoRythme is a participatory and immersive sound installation, with the aim of highlighting the links that unite us, almost unnoticeably. It invites the audience to wear a sensor that will pick up each individual heart rate, to then put on a headset and listen to the collective beat of all participants. The individual signals are transformed into notes, echoes, rhythms, and its synthesis is then sent to each headset. Each in a bubble, as close to the other as possible, mixed in a polyphony, of which one is only a part, of which one is the whole, indistinguishable at the same time. RhizoRythme has no other ambition than to embody this living fabric, this living network that binds and forms society.
Prosépin is a polydisciplinary artist who work mainly in the fields of audio composition and music for film, radio and theatre. He divides his activities between his sound engineer’s quality, composer and his love of letters, through notes, news, and poems. His work, still in its beginning, is marked by this step, hesitant, constantly searching, wandering to the sandstone of his aspirations, opportunities that arise, in pursuit of what he has never met. This is also the case for his first installation, RhizoRythme.