This project grew out of a performative piece between two machines that produce text – a typewriter and a laptop. The idea is to connect machines of different generations, without distinguishing between their usual and little-known functions. The network is perhaps a form of intelligent body speaking with mechanical organs through its inputs and outputs. The sound object is defined here by this assembly of heterogeneous machines on the same support and by
orchestration of noise and glitch. The sound object is polysemous. It’s a question of showing the intensity of a machine’s production, which we recover for another machine. We see fluctuations, increases and losses of intensity in the form of errors (sonic, graphic, mechanical, electronic, etc.).
It’s also an encounter between two artists who come from different backgrounds, but with a pronounced taste for multidisciplinarity. A form of polysemy takes root in the approach and in the choice of machines to connect. Here, there’s no hijacking, as each machine
continues to perform its native task, but in an unfamiliar way. A typewriter produces text for a paper shredder. A screen destroys its contents according to a sound produced by a spring. The latter changes the sound of a radio cassette, and so on.
In « Brèches d’une mécanique sonore » we explore these absurd possibilities by intensifying them.