To hear on Sunday 14 and 21 February 2016, 2pm - 9pm:
Thinking of you (fragments)
(2010, German Premiere)
by Gaël Segalen (France)
Authors: Gaël Segalen + 8 women
Language: arabic-french
Loudspeaker installations: Knut Remond / ohrenhoch
Gaël Segalen on 'Thinking of you (fragments)':
Creative workshop and audio correspondence with 8 parisian women from North Africa: recordings and meetings from february to may 2010 in the 17th arrondissement (Paris).
Every week, the participants were taking back home a recorder to collect and invent any sound by themselves, in their own privacy (“interiors”) and in the everyday life, alone and with the environment, refining their approach with time.
Receiving those materials on an anonymous mode, here is the audio piece i offered back to them.
(Premiered as Piece for headphones and audiovisual installation at the Bouffes du Nord theater, Paris, june 2010, by Collectif Mu - Gaël Segalen - Vincent Voillat - Platform Siwa)
A Text by Gaël Segalen to 'Thinking of you (fragments)' in relation to 'Soundactivism' is available at ohrenhoch.
Gaël Segalen
20 years in sound, from social sciences, to radio, to on location sound for film, to field recording, to education, to travel the world to collect voices, to audio art / interaction, to composing music, french sound activist, educator and musician Gaël Segalen (aka IhearU) has a very diverse experience in sound and is focused on polylistening, dissonance and new music, as well as create people's encounter in improvisation spaces. She believes all the noises she has collected or manipulated, can coexist in one inclusive spirit, here and now, and transposes the complexity of the world into soundscapes and DFR compositions (Danceable Field Recording).
About to release her debut album on Erratum (spring 2016), she has a diploma in concrete and electroacoustic composition in the lineage of the GRM (Groupe de Recherches Musicales), has worked with parisian Collectif Mu since 2005 on sound art projects, co-signs the piece and performance “Vertigo” with Joachim Montessuis, collaborates with Afrikan Sciences on their duo “Les Graciés” since 2012 (debut album on Firecracker for mid 2016), conducts sound workshops for specific publics, composes music for films and installations.