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Program

Anne-F Jacques: Pelleteuses de nuages

for electro-mechanical devices, resonant (or not so) materials

"Air in motion, pieces of matter in a vibratory state, shifting temperatures. An ephemeral infrastructure of hazardous systems occupies the space and tries to perturb its atmosphere for the duration of the performance."

Rehab Hazgui: Interstice

for Modular Synthesizer - Analog and Digital

Duration: 20:00

Interstice derives from the Latin interstitium, meaning “standing between”. It also refers to the cracks and crevices of life, and the word is often used for both the literal and figurative gaps of the world. In modern uses, interstice can even refer to gaps in time or to special niches in the larger expanse of something else.

Interstice is an investigation into the hidden structures of the city through an archaeology of sound and sonic stromatography. In an effort to find, interpret, and comprehend the location, sounds are recorded from below the surface, the river, and the underground world and move upward. The various strata of the landscape are transcribed by the recordings.

Sound ecologist Rehab Hazgui has been working using various microphones, she explores the refractions, reverberations, and acoustics of waterfronts and their environs to produce a sound scan on both a macro and micro scale. While some of the noises are from the modern metropolis, some date back to thousands of years.

The raw material gathered during these recordings is the starting point for an interpretation of the site: compositions and performance that extrapolate to the outside and re-project on the site the sounds of its own unapparent stories.

Debuting for the first time at CIRMMT, "Interstice" is the second work of a trilogy that includes the inaugural piece "The Buried Soundscape of Singapore", previously showcased at the Singapore Art Week (January 2024). This body of work emerged from her residency at The Singapore Art Museum.

Bios

Anne-F Jacques

Anne-F Jacques is a sound artist based in Montreal, Canada. She is interested in amplification, oblique interactions between materials and construction of various contraptions and idiosyncratic systems. Her particular focus is on low technology, trivial objects and unpolished sounds. She regularly realizes installations, performances and ephemeral interventions in odd places.

Rehab Hazgui

Rehab Hazgui is a composer and sound ecologist. Her artworks explore ways to learn new forms of languages through conscious listening and the relationship that beings have with their culture, heritage, society and landscape as involved and living participants. Her research examines the ways in which sound emerges through dynamic landscapes, including those that are biological, geophysical,
and human consequences. Rehab Hazgui's primary focus is on the act of listening to itself, as it relates to our perception of space, our relationship to it, and the profound level of engagement that our ears provide with the world. In her music she is constantly exploring the endless movement of sound, repetition, and the use of silence as a third space to navigate between different forms of listening.

Rehab Hazgui’s work has been presented in many festivals and venues: Phonetics (Algiers), CTM (Berlin), Kikk (Namur, Belgium), Savvy Contemporary (Berlin), Phonetics (Saint Denis, Paris), Perte de Signal (Montreal), Sight & Sound (Montreal), The Mannheimer Sommer Festival (Mannheim, Germany), Singapore Art Week (Singapore)… as well as countless workshops across Europe on building DIY synthesizer and audio devices.