A documentary by Alexandre Bazin featuring David Toop, Bill Fontana, Christina Kubisch, Max Eastley and Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, with INA archives – Translation and dubbing by Spencer Bambrough.
This second part extends the exploration of sound as material, expanding it to space and the environment. Sound is no longer limited to the object or the instrument: it becomes flow, circulation, phenomenon. Through installations, recordings, and invisible devices, it inscribes itself in reality and reveals tensions.
From Max Eastley’s wind in the strings to Bill Fontana’s vibratory architectures, from Christina Kubisch’s electromagnetic fields to Céleste Boursier-Mougenot’s living ecosystems, a different way of listening emerges: an extended, situated, immersed listening experience.
Sound becomes landscape, memory, and presence – a way of inhabiting the world.
Bill Fontana A pioneer of sound art since the 1970s, Bill Fontana develops installations that reveal the invisible vibrations of structures and environments. His work captures and displaces the sounds of the world to transform our perception of space.
David Toop Writer, musician, and major figure in contemporary sound thinking, David Toop has been exploring the links between music, environment, and perception since the 1970s. Presented subtly, his reflection on listening as an experience of the world continues here, weaving together environment, perception, and sonic imagination.
Selection of Music: – Max Eastley – Aeolian Arc And Strings (1974) – Bill Fontana – Imaginary Sonic Visions (2013) – Bill Fontana – Landscape Sculpture with Fog Horns (Installation Version, 1981) – Bill Fontana – Silent Echoes Notre-Dame (2022) – Bill Fontana – Acoustical Views – Sydney (1988) – Christina Kubisch – Sechs Spiegel (1995) – Max Eastley – Two Aeolian Arcs (1974) – Max Eastley – Aeolian Harps Pt. 1 (1980) – Max Eastley – Swung Aeolian Flutes And Grass Blade (1979) – David Toop – The Divination of the Bowhead Whale – Céleste Boursier-Mougenot – Clinamen, Bourse de Commerce (2025) – Recording: Kevin Luce (kevp888, freesound.org), CC BY 4.0 – Céleste Boursier-Mougenot – From Here to Hear (2024)
