ohrenhoch presents
on Sunday 12 and 19 August 2012, 2pm - 9pm:
Sanctuaire
new version made for ohrenhoch
(2011-2012, Premiere)
by Pascale Trudel
The video piece 'Sanctuaire' is presented in the ohrenhoch basement, and the uncoupled soundtrack (sound piece) in the ohrenhoch shopwindow space over the fixed loudspeaker installation.
Pascale Trudel on 'Sanctuaire' [18 min.]:
Sanctuaire is a piece about recorded memory. All the material used comes from my family or my own recordings.
The super8 movies were made by various members of my family from the 1930's to the 1950's in various cities of the province of Quebec in Canada, but also in Florida and the east coast of the United States. The Super8 camera was bought by my great-grandfather. Featured in the movies are my grand-parents wedding and my mother growing up.
The cassette tapes recordings of family and friends date from the 1960's to the 1980's.All other recordings i made myself starting in the 1990's.?There is a strangeness to seeing older family members when they were young on film. It is like time travel to a place that feels like home but is also a completely foreign world. I see this piece as collaborative work between me and my family stretching over 80 years in which we all experimented with the technology that was available to us to capture a moment of life.
The first performance of this piece was a live electroacoustic improvisation while projecting the movies. I have made a new fixed version of the piece for ohrenhoch.
Special Booklet, limited edition, available at ohrenhoch: ?Interview with Pascale Trudel, biography, description of the work 'Sanctuaire'. In English and German.?Making, illustration, interview: Knut Remond.
Pascale Trudel
is a composer and a new media artist who lives in Montreal.?Since 1986, her work has been presented in concerts, on the radio, on cd, in art galleries, and on the internet. Recently, she has been doing live electroacoustic improvisation in solo and with other musicians.