Electrabelle

Electrabelle is a project conducted at the invitation of architect Jérémie Faivre. It involved confronting and combining architecture and sound art on the site of an abandoned power plant cooling stack in Charleroi, Belgium. The sound was produced using eight megaphones in feedback mode over a night and a day of recordings, resonating with the immense volume of air in the stack, the center of which materialized a particularly long floating echo. The punctual and continuous sounds, distributed throughout the space, allowed for a (very empirical) acoustic mapping of this enormous space. The recordings also testified to how the site was affected by rain and traversed by urban explorers.

The result is a 22-minute sound and video piece, which was premiered in May 2016 at the Galerie Ygrec (Paris).

Eight 5-minute "decompositions" were also created to appear in the architectural research project, which took the form of a prototype multimedia interface presenting the sound study and its electroacoustic transposition.

The project also prompted the co-writing, with Jérémie Faivre, of an article for the journal A/R (Art et Recherche): Charleroi/Electrabelle - comparative readings of a collaborative experience