Lise Lebleux is a French sound artist based in Paris. Founded on quests for territorial identity, her compositions transform the places recorded without faithful reproduction, creating listening situations where the landscape in decline disintegrates and raises a threatened climate. The sounds of the real place us in familiar acoustics, punctuated by fiction, creating hybrid places. Following residencies in Austria, she presented Sounds of the Valley – Klänge des Tals in Bad Ischl as part of the European Capital of Culture 2024. Her sound piece Stille in drei Akten was broadcast on Vienna’s Ö1 Kunstradio, and her latest composition I listen to whether the bells are sick, exploring the work of a German organist and musician, will be presented on Radiophrenia 2025 in Glasgow.
Featured Transmission(s):
- Airing on May 25th 08:45 CEST
- Loss of Echo
- Genre: Soundscape Composition
- Duration: 15 min
- Welcome to this desolate landscape, which is crumbling in your ears. Machines brutally tear the earth from the ground, while a swarm of crows hovers over us, watching for our doom. The dampness of a cave envelops our skin in a cool, heavy veil and the last melancholy notes of an organ ring out, like an echo from the past. A strident vibration - that of an instrument string - mingles with a female voice. This voice embodies the nymph Echo, condemned to wander the mountains, trapped in an endless loop, never able to escape. Loss of Echo was recorded in the Austrian valley of Salzburg after several months exploring the area. In this geographical depression, the sound environment is amplified by the surrounding rock faces, allowing a mysterious, ethereal echo to emerge.
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