Visual artist and composer
Pieces for instruments is a video installation articulated around the meeting of sound and landscape. In its three videos, a human figure strolls through natural landscapes while dragging musical instruments on the ground. These instruments emit sounds that can be heard individually through headphones or all together in the gallery space, forming some kind of broken-up rock music.
How does the landscape influence our auditory and musical imagination? What instruments, what rhythms, and what melodies is a given landscape likely to suggest? By what means can a forest floor, a mountain, or a beach play the part of a musical score? The gallery becomes a space of contemplation in which these questions intersect.
The creation of this work was made possible thanks to the financial support of the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.