February 1 - February 24
Light & Sound Gallery

Reflected Waves | Eric La Casa and Jean-Luc Guionnet
DVD video with 5.1 Dolby digital. total time : 1h48m26s

Opening Reception
First Thursday, February 1, 6-10pm

Reflected Waves is a sonic representation of Melbourne, Australia. Reflected Waves was created during an artist in residence program at RMIT. Their method involved creating a pointillist dematerialization of the territory, and then tracing from that a derived sonic map. In using sound as a medium, they question what does or does not make a landscape. Can sound decipher the world and objectify reality? How can sound teach us about the absent realities of a visible landscape? This project initiates a process of measurement through listening.

Éric La Casa, sound artist, and Jean-Luc Guionnet, musician, both live in Paris, France and have been working regularly together since 1998. While Éric La Casa has always studied the question of sound environment, Jean-Luc Guionnet works with a wider sphere of musical activities in many areas of sound.

"Testing the more trivial sound realities with the more abstract musical decisions,
we tried to overpass the concept of sound and music" - Eric La Casa



Biographies

Eric La Casa is known for his sensitive work with field recordings. Exploring both rural and urban environments with his microphone, LaCasa has been engaged in “topophonic” research for the last 15 years, a process he calls “listening to the world”. He has completed numerous projects for Radio France, as well as various installations, concerts and recorded works such as the CDs L’Empreinte de l’Ivresse (Digital Narcis Ltd, Japan), The stones of the threshold (Groundfault, USA) and Les pierres du seuil part 4-7 (Edition…, USA).

Jean-Luc Guionnet works in many realms of music, improvisation and electro-acoustic composition. As a jazz saxophonist, he has played in several free-improv ensembles, but he has also worked with instruments such as organ and hurdy-gurdy. He has collaborated regularly with Eric La Casa on installations and recordings, including the on-going project Afflux (with Eric Cordier), in which the artists ‘play’ specific locations such as traffic tunnels and train stations by utilizing microphones, instruments, found objects and a mobile mixing device.
- Seth Nehil

For more information on Éric La Casa: http://ascendre.free.fr/