Dźwiękobrazy | Imaginary soundscapes | opening and concert Stéphane Clor

 

Opening and concert: Friday 16th December 2016 / 6 p.m.
LAZNIA 1 Centre for Contemporary Art , ul. Jaskółcza 1, Gdańsk
The exhibition is open until Thursday 22nd December 2016, everyday (except Monday) 12 p.m. - 6 p.m.

 

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‘This morning I found my ears again. I had left them in a drawer, near a clock with a never-ending double swinging clinking pendulum, almost like an anxious metronome. It took me a long time to get used to them as I hadn't used them for a while.

First the right : cracks of the wooden floor, sharp and dry, a breath through the keyhole like the whispers of forgotten ghosts. The walls vibrate and a comfortable bass spreads and embraces my whole body.

Then the left : the window, the outside, the wind beating against the glass in a swinging tempo. The branches dance and imitate the sound of an infinite mass of seeds poured in the air. An engine splits the street with the roaring of a big animal.

All of those sounds compose a hypnotic symphony which lulls me. I close my eyes and let the sound penetrate. Ears, I will never forget you again.’
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Stéphane Clor is a French musician and artist. He is playing double bass, cello and electroacoustic music, especially in improvised and contemporary music contexts. He explores relationship between sound, gesture, space and time; programming interactive and kinetic systems for visual and musical performances and installations. He is also working on pedagogical interventions around computer music.

Currently Stéphane Clor is an artist on residency at LAZNIA Centre for Contemporary Art in Gdansk, whithin the artist residency exchange program, started in 2011 by Apollonia Association in Strasbourg, City of Strasbourg, City of Gdansk and LAZNIA Centre for Contemporary Art. Previous editions of this bilateral exchange program had following participants: Ahmet Dogan, Patrick Bogner, Jia Qiu and Dorothee Haller, Yiumsiri Vantanapindu. Among Polish artists going to Strasbourg were: Dominika Skutnik, Dorota Walentynowicz, Michał Pecko, Angelika Fojtuch, Grzegorz Stefański  and – currently – Urszula Kozak.