AFFLUX by Eric Cordier + Jean-Luc Guionnet + Eric La Casa

180 minutes
(1998-2000)
Afflux is a vernacular musical device.

Afflux is to succeed in building in situ an electroacoustic device in order to work out a set of live interactions with a site. This device connects the three improvisers to the place at the same time. The set of connections creates an infinite interplay of interactions and possibilities.
This device is basically founded upon a principle of circulation (of sounds…). The recordings of environmental and devices interacting with the elements : winds, waters, … , is filtered and mixed live by a protagonist. The mix is then broadcasted to the two others (through headphones) who can interact with inflexions altering the course of what is recorded, it may just as well consist in triggering and processing sounds through setting out a control upon acoustic parameters.
It is thus possible to achieve a system of circulating sound creation where the interaction network is getting more and more complex as the sound data are travelling inside. Not so much circulating as an ever moving flow.

For 30 years, while listening to the environment, I have been questioning the perception of reality and has tried to expand the notion of infra-ordinary (space-time at low intensity), from background noise to the inaudible, through the wait, the pause.

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