MICROGRAVITY – Sonic Travellers
3 to 7 June 2024
What if you could be an astronaut, floating in a dark sky and travelling to a distant planet or moon? How would it feel to be left with your own corporal sounds, in search for others; and can our bodies tell us things about space that our minds alone can never understand?
Sonic travellers are people evolving choreographically into complete darkness by following and acting upon spatial compositions generated by and for others, as if they held sounds in their palms and could project them. The technique consists of synchronized binaural live feeds following spatial trajectories drawn live in 3D around the listener, with various possible implementations and developments.
During one week at Inter Arts Center, the team behind Microgravity (Esther Wrobel, Yann Coppier and Tanya Montan Rydell) will explore the collective composition of space, creating a sonic link between people lost in the dark void and giving back to choreographers, as the ultimate movement specialists, the art of sound spatialisation. Looking for a significant, creative and playful link between the advancement of science towards space, and the idea of human beings needing to transform and even mutate into a new species – whose future lies away from our planet.
The project is part of Yann Coppier’s PhD at Lund University, “how to make the future unpredictable”.
Read more about Yann Coppier's artistic research at IAC here.