Cathédrale de Strasbourg

2023-03-03T17:22:37+01:00

Clair de lune

Unusual and poetic light and sound show in Strasbourg Cathedral after the last performance of the 2020 Summer Show.

New sound creations by Gaëtan Gromer, Antoine Spindler and Olivier Touratier, in perfect synchronisation with the lights, accompany visitors on a visual and sound contemplation of the cathedral.

Music : Ludwig van Beethoven, Gaëtan Gromer, Antoine Spindler, Olivier Touratier

Light
 : Daniel Knipper

As part of the monumental show “PAUSE

Commissioned by the City and Eurometropolis of Strasbourg

Presqu’île Malraux, Strasbourg

2023-03-03T17:21:59+01:00

EC(H)O Malraux

POETRY .

7+ years old

Duration : 30 – 45 min

© Agence CAPAC

‘We know the bridge, we know the old crane, we know the white liner of glass and brick. But in the water you can only make out the autumn and the pigmented scattering of leaves as they wander. A dream drifts in a sky of water. ”

During the months of November and December 2019, we invited inhabitants, companies and institutions present on the André Malraux Peninsula to participate in a process of artistic meetings and workshops, to try to understand the notion of artistic approach. The participants were invited to shift their gaze to these everyday places and proposed a series of photographs which were then submitted to the poets. The texts resulting from this process, read and set to music, are geolocated at the precise shooting locations and can be listened to thanks to the GOH mobile app.

Project carried out thanks to the involvement of ACCRO, the Shadok, the OKKO hotel, the SERS, the CNFPT-INET, the Malraux media library, the Neudorf Deux-Rives territory management and the AREM residents’ association.

Details

Price : Free

Location : Presqu’île André Malraux, Strasbourg

Credits

Poems: Claudine Bohi, Germain Roesz

Music: Gaëtan Gromer

As part of the Tango&Scan program

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The result of a collaborative work between Les Ensembles 2.2, several structures in the André Malraux peninsula and local residents, EC(H)O is a clever blend of sound compositions and contemporary poetry. While they wander, the listener advances towards what is hidden but yet present, a world created and placed there. The music of Gaëtan Gromer as well as the poetry of Claudine Bohi and Germain Roesz offer a different perspective of an everyday place.

It is simply, as Claudine Bohi beautifully wrote in Entre les mots, a matter of ‘widening the narrow’.

Gaëtan Gromer leads a creative activity at a crossroads between composition, performance and multimedia installation. He uses the astonishing power of suggestion and immersion of sound to deliver a certain view of the world, a particular point of hearing, to ‘tell’ with sound. He is one of the winners of the Imagina Atlantica 2012 European Digital Arts Prize in Angoulême and wrote the music for Samuel Henry’s Juste l’embrasser, which won the SABAM prize at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival in 2008.

Claudine Bohi is an assistant lecturer of arts and a psychoanalyst who taught at the Lycée Voltaire (Paris) and divides her time between Paris, Strasbourg and Narbonne. Her poetic work, according to Claude Ber, questions the transition between flesh and word, anxiety and questioning. She appears in the anthologies L’érotisme dans la poésie féminine, by Pierre Béarn (Pauvert, 1993) and L’anthologie de la poésie érotique, by Pierre Perret (Nil, 1995), as well as in several others.

Claudine Bohi received the Prix Paul-Verlaine in 1998 for the collection Atalante, ta course (Éditions La Bartavelle) 1, and the Prix Mallarmé 2019 for Naître, c’est longtemps (Éditions La Tête à l’envers, 2018).

Germain Rœsz is a painter and poet born in Colmar in 1949, who lives and works in Paris and Strasbourg. He carries out work in visual arts, poetry and theoretical research. Nourished by his research and his poetic quest, his painting traces a territory between rigour and chaos, between the history of painting and the contemporary approach. He tries, in a spirit of coherence, to grasp – in painting and in poetry – a space which is its own matrix, which opens the world. In the strictly poetic field, he has been performing poetry since 1994: poetry/action readings with contemporary musicians (Pierre Seidler, Christophe Rieger, Gaëtan Gromer), with L’épongistes (Robic/Rœsz) or solo.

Supported by the Grand-Est Region as part of the Digital Creation call for expressions of interest.

Metz

2023-07-26T16:14:03+01:00

EC(H)O Bliiida

 

POETRY .

7+ years old

Duration : 30 – 45 mins

Combining sound compositions and contemporary poetry, this trail invites the listener to explore BLIIIDA, a third place located in the heart of Metz.

In parallel with the international digital arts festival Constellations.

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This sound and poetry trail is composed of 6 texts, created by the poet Alain Helissen and set to music by Gaëtan Gromer. It invites you to discover or rediscover BLIIIDA, a third place located in the heart of Metz. Each of the 6 texts and its music were inspired by the place and the exchanges with the users. They are designed specifically to be heard in a defined area of BLIIIDA. The trail is available on the GOH smartphone app, which uses geolocation technology.

Gaëtan Gromer leads a creative activity at a crossroads between composition, performance and multimedia installation. He uses the astonishing power of suggestion and immersion of sound to deliver a certain view of the world, a particular point of hearing, to ‘tell’ with sound. He is one of the winners of the Imagina Atlantica 2012 European Digital Arts Prize in Angoulême and wrote the music for Samuel Henry’s Juste l’embrasser, which won the SABAM prize at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival in 2008.

Alain Helissen was born in 1954 and lives in Sarrebourg, Moselle. He co-founded the artistic and literary journal, FAIX (1979/1982) before joining the editorial board of the SAPRIPHAGE journal (which was discontinued in 2000). He has collaborated with around fifty journals and published around a dozen works. He is also a columnist for various literary periodicals (Le Mensuel littéraire et poétique (Brussels), La Polygraphe, Pris de Peur, Cahiers CCP (Marseille), Diérèse, La Grappe, Ici & Là, etc.) Since the beginning of 2000, he has directed the Vents Contraires poetry collection at Editions VOIX. He has written songs for the group ‘Village Popol’ with whom he has performed on stage. He regularly participates in Mail Art exhibitions.

Details

Price : free

Location : Bliiida, Metz

Credits

Texts : Alain Helissen.

Music : Gaëtan Gromer

In partnership with the third place Bliiida.

Hautepierre, Strasbourg

2023-07-26T16:34:15+01:00

Le Chant des Immeubles #1 : Hautepierre

SONIC ARTS . 

7+ years old

Duration : 20 – 30 min

A soundwalk created from the amplification of the acoustics and unique frequencies of buildings. 

In the Hautepierre district, the songs are also accompanied by texts, made up of extracts from recorded interviews with the residents, in which they talk about their relationship to the building, what they see through the window, their dream place to live, the place they may abandon one day… in order to compose an unheard-of symphony of the built environment.

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Every place has a unique identity. The materials and density of the building, its function, its location and its history give it particular characteristics. It therefore logically has its own unique acoustics and resonance frequencies.

To amplify these unique songs, Gaëtan Gromer has designed software that updates the recording technique developed by the composer Alvin Lucier in 1969.

As he approaches a building, it begins to ‘sing’ in its unique voice. When close to several buildings, they sing in chorus. The listener’s journey thus instantly recomposes the buildings’ symphony.

Gaëtan Gromer leads a creative activity at a crossroads between composition, performance and multimedia installation. He uses the astonishing power of suggestion and immersion of sound to deliver a certain view of the world, a particular point of hearing, to ‘tell’ with sound. He is one of the winners of the Imagina Atlantica 2012 European Digital Arts Prize in Angoulême and wrote the music for Samuel Henry’s Juste l’embrasser, which won the SABAM prize at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival in 2008.

With the support of the Horizome collective

Détails :

Price : free

Location : Hautepierre, Strasbourg

Credits:

Artistic direction : Gaëtan Gromer

Recordings : Louise Andriussi

Production : Les Ensembles 2.2

Neustadt, Strasbourg

2023-07-26T16:34:36+01:00

Le chant des immeubles #2 : Neustadt

SONIC ARTS . 

7+years old

Duration : 20 – 30 min

A soundwalk  created from the amplification of the acoustics and unique frequencies of buildings. 

The Chant des Immeubles de la Neustadt presents musical compositions enriched with historical information about the buildings in the district, to celebrate Neustadt’s inclusion on the UNESCO World Heritage List.

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Every place has a unique identity. The materials and density of the building, its function, its location and its history give it particular characteristics. It therefore logically has its own unique acoustics and resonance frequencies.

To amplify these unique songs, Gaëtan Gromer has designed software that updates the recording technique developed by the composer Alvin Lucier in 1969.

As he approaches a building, it begins to ‘sing’ in its unique voice. When close to several buildings, they sing in chorus. The listener’s journey thus instantly recomposes the buildings’ symphony.

Gaëtan Gromer leads a creative activity at a crossroads between composition, performance and multimedia installation. He uses the astonishing power of suggestion and immersion of sound to deliver a certain view of the world, a particular point of hearing, to ‘tell’ with sound. He is one of the winners of the Imagina Atlantica 2012 European Digital Arts Prize in Angoulême and wrote the music for Samuel Henry’s Juste l’embrasser, which won the SABAM prize at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival in 2008.

Realised in partnership with the Journées de l’Architecture and the heritage mission of the city of Strasbourg.

Détails

Price : Free

Location : Neustadt, Strasbourg

Crédits

Artistic director : Gaëtan Gromer

Recordings : Adrien Fuchs

Production : Les Ensembles 2.2

Poitiers

2023-07-26T16:34:43+01:00

Le chant des immeubles #3 : Poitiers

SONIC ARTS .

7 years old +

Duration : 20 – 30 min

A soundwalk  created from the amplification of the acoustics and unique frequencies of buildings. 

The trail puts into perspective how young people and migrants view their city and its architecture through the acoustic signature of its buildings.

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Every place has a unique identity. The materials and density of the building, its function, its location and its history give it particular characteristics. It therefore logically has its own unique acoustics and resonance frequencies.

To amplify these unique songs, Gaëtan Gromer has designed software that updates the recording technique developed by the composer Alvin Lucier in 1969.

As he approaches a building, it begins to ‘sing’ in its unique voice. When close to several buildings, they sing in chorus. The listener’s journey thus instantly recomposes the buildings’ symphony.

Gaëtan Gromer leads a creative activity at a crossroads between composition, performance and multimedia installation. He uses the astonishing power of suggestion and immersion of sound to deliver a certain view of the world, a particular point of hearing, to ‘tell’ with sound. He is one of the winners of the Imagina Atlantica 2012 European Digital Arts Prize in Angoulême and wrote the music for Samuel Henry’s Juste l’embrasser, which won the SABAM prize at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival in 2008.

With the support of Lieu Multiple and in partnership with CSC le Local.

Détails

Price : Free

Location : (Quartier Cathédrale Saint-Pierre) Poitiers

Crédits

Artistic directior and recordings : Gaëtan Gromer

Production : Les Ensembles 2.2

Neuhof, Strasbourg

2023-07-26T16:34:51+01:00

Le chant des immeubles #4 : Neuhof

SONIC ARTS .

7 years old +

Duration : 20 – 30 min

A soundwalk created from the amplification of the acoustics and unique frequencies of buildings. 

Le Chant des Immeubles du quartier du Neuhof brings together testimonies and songs – from inhabitants as well as buildings – to highlight the linguistic and cultural richness of the district.

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Every place has a unique identity. The materials and density of the building, its function, its location and its history give it particular characteristics. It therefore logically has its own unique acoustics and resonance frequencies.

To amplify these unique songs, Gaëtan Gromer has designed software that updates the recording technique developed by the composer Alvin Lucier in 1969.

As he approaches a building, it begins to ‘sing’ in its unique voice. When close to several buildings, they sing in chorus. The listener’s journey thus instantly recomposes the buildings’ symphony.

Gaëtan Gromer leads a creative activity at a crossroads between composition, performance and multimedia installation. He uses the astonishing power of suggestion and immersion of sound to deliver a certain view of the world, a particular point of hearing, to ‘tell’ with sound. He is one of the winners of the Imagina Atlantica 2012 European Digital Arts Prize in Angoulême and wrote the music for Samuel Henry’s Juste l’embrasser, which won the SABAM prize at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival in 2008.

With the support of Espace Django

Détails

Price : Free

Location : Quartier Neuhof, Strasbourg

Crédits

Artistic director : Gaëtan Gromer

Recordings : Guillaume Sanseigne

Production : Les Ensembles 2.2

PRINTEMPS SILENCIEUX

2023-03-03T17:10:50+01:00

Printemps Silencieux

LISTENING ROOM IN 2162, ENAPOLIS MUSEUM

Printemps Silencieux (Silent Spring) takes us to the year 2162 in the city of Enapolis, where the inhabitants are walled in and have never known or even felt the presence of the ‘outside’. Upon entering a room of the city museum, the visitor can read the following label:

‘The Enapolis Museum regularly excavates our basements. We find a number of objects, mostly damaged, obsolete or unknown. Among them, a device that could finally be restored and explored. It appears to have belonged to Gaëtan Gromer, a 21st-century sound artist who lived on the Enapolis construction site. It is likely that, throughout his life, the artist collected a considerable database of field recordings recorded by himself or by collaborators. According to what we have discovered about this device, the practice of field recording consisted in particular of recording, in the open air, sounds produced by human activities and/or by the natural environment.

This exceptional document from the beginning of the 21st century allows us to give you the opportunity to listen to these astonishing ‘soundscapes’ composed of typical sounds of the environment of this distant time and which have probably all disappeared in 2162.

The title was inspired by an unfinished work by the artist referring to a prophetic text written in 1962, exactly two centuries ago, by an author named Rachel Carson.

NB: This work is part of the cycle Demain c’est loin, it can be exhibited with the four other creations: Scintillements, Unedo, Sans faire de Vagues…, Enapolis

Created for the 2022 Ososphere festival – Strasbourg

Credits

Artistic director: Gaëtan Gromer

Recordings : Gaëtan Gromer, Marin Lambert, Marc Namblard

Control room: Valérie Bajsca et Cyrille Siffer

Support : L’Ososphère

Photo : © Yoann Bourreau

UNEDO

2024-10-14T10:22:47+01:00

Unedo

SOUND INSTALLATION – SCULPTURE

A tree appears to be covered in concrete. A deep, gravelly sound is emitted every time the world’s forests permanently lose, due to massive deforestation and the relentless artificialisation of the world, the equivalent of the total area of the city block* you are currently in. This process makes it possible to give substance to this staggering statistic: currently, one hectare of forest disappears from the surface of the globe every 1.11 seconds. 

But from this sinister tree springs a small branch from a small living shrub: a strawberry tree (arbutus unedo). A pyrophilous plant, the dormancy of the seeds of the arbutus is lifted by contact with fire, allowing it to conquer areas devastated by fire.

NB: This work is part of the cycle Demain c’est loin, it can be exhibited with the four other creations: Printemps Silencieux, Scintillements, Sans faire de Vagues…, Enapolis

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Credits :

Artistic director, conception : Gaëtan Gromer

Manufacturing : Gaëtan Gromer, Nicolas Schneider

Electronics : Benoît Jester

Production : Les Ensembles 2.2

Many thanks to Claude Peter

With support from the city of Sélestat

Photos : ©Gaëtan Gromer

Details

Exposed for the first time parc des remparts de Sélestat – 2021.

Exposed for the 2022 edition of the Ososphère festival.

 

SANS FAIRE DE VAGUES …

2023-03-03T17:09:34+01:00

Sans faire de vagues …

Sharks are massively affected by the lucrative finning trade. Since the 10th century, a number of miraculous virtues have been attributed to them. However, it has been widely demonstrated that this is a myth and that, on the contrary, they are bioaccumulators and therefore carriers of high concentrations of heavy metals. Ironically, they have no taste.

The work consists of three life-size shark sculptures (white, hammerhead and thresher) with their fins removed. Every time it makes a sound, somewhere in the world, a shark is thrown back into the sea, mutilated, doomed to several days of agony. The finning trade is so huge that the overall shark population has declined by more than 90% in exploited areas. The disappearance of the largest predator in our oceans would, however, cause major imbalances in the marine ecosystems that provide most of our oxygen. 

Gaëtan Gromer, in an artistic approach that questions the use we make of figures today, brings us face to face with an unknown reality. Using the astonishing power of suggestion of sound, coupled here with a visual representation that leaves no room for misinterpretation, the artist questions this very strange fish market.

NB: This work is part of the cycle Demain c’est loin, it can be exhibited with the four other creations: Printemps Silencieux, Scintillements, Unedo, Enapolis

With the support of our sponsor, DQE Software.

DQE Software – a software company specialising in the optimisation of customer data quality – and the artist, Gaëtan Gromer, use data in their work and believe in a smarter use of technology to improve our methods, increase our efficiency and limit our footprint on this world.

Credits

Art direction, design: Gaëtan Gromer

Manufacturing: Gaëtan Gromer, Nicolas Schneider, Léo Heitz

Electronics: Benoît Jester

Production: Les Ensembles 2.2 Les Ensembles 2.2

Property of DQE Software

Exhibited for the first time at Industrie Magnifique 2021

Permanent exhibition at the Maison de la Pêche et de la Nature in Levallois (92)

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