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PROJECT DESCRIPTION : As a proposal for a work period in the Jan Van Eyck Academie, I present a series of 3 interconnected projects dealing with the physical experience of the space and the environnement. What is at stake in this series of projects is the canalization of energies from the outside to the inside to emphasize the phenomenons that surround us in our urban spaces of living. (in appendix: sketches for each project) Ecoute Project for an underground network Draughts
1 - Ecoute This project is about the perception of inside and outside spaces. The point is to play inside a building the sound of the outside captured live from the roof of this same building. Thanks to a system of ropes, pulleys and a windward sail, the sound played inside is varying in intensity (volume) according to the outside conditions of weather. In french there is a pun about the word «ecoute» which means «listen», as an invitation to pay auditive attention, but in sailing vocabulary, «écoute» also designates the ropes used on boats to control the sails, as a tactile listening. Description: - Out on the roof, a sail is set on a 360° rotative axis, windward. The sail is linked to ropes that bend or unbend according to the force of the wind. - Those ropes extend from the sail, alongside the building to the inside space, guided by pulleys. The tension relative to the wind has an effect on the ropes to their extremity inside the building. - the inside extremity is tied to the cursor of a potentiometer controlling the volume of the sound played. The stronger the wind is, the more the tension on the rope increases and pull on the cursor of the potentiometer, increasing the volume. - The sound is captured live from the roof via a multidirectional microphone, and played inside via a speaker controlled by the potentiometer. The whole system of pulleys, ropes, cables that link the outside to the inside shall be visible. The project is related to time, constantly changing since it is in accordance with the outside conditions of weather.
2 - Project for an underground network Sound project in public space ; the principle is to make a sound footage down in the underground sewer networks, drainpipes, to amplify this sound and play it from the same underground networks. The sound of waters ?owing underground would be thus audible from the surface via the grids and drains in the gutters. The purpose is to bring an underground network to the surface, using its own characteristics (sound of water ?owing, echo, links with the surface), and then to emphasize an urban reality wich we are not aware of, but which is part of our spaces of living.
3 - Draughts In this installation, a wind-sock is set in a room likely to produce draughts while windows are open on opposite sides of the building. When the access door to the room is shut, the wind-sock is still. When someone opens the door, there is a draught that makes the wind-sock rise. Part of the room is half separated by a wall, such as the visitor cannot see the draught he produces when he enters the room; he originates the draught that precedes him in the room. Once inside, the visitor can anticipate the arrival of another one, seeing the wind-sock rising (a warning sign), and realising what he himself produced when he entered the room.
next pages: sketches for each project. .../...
1- Ecoute sketches for the project. 3D model, printed and annotated
2- Project for an underground network pencil on paper 112 X 99 cm / 33 X 35 cm / 28 X 33 cm sketches for the project.
3- Draughts Project of installation (wind-sock, partition-wall) Computer graphic sketches.
