During this meeting hosted by philosopher Véronique Verdier, Elsa Biston will discuss her career and present her work Laisser le geste porter l'écoute: a sound installation in the form of a game, which invites listeners to lend an ear to a simple dead leaf. To be discovered in the spaces of the media library.
By turning the crank of a chignole, a hand drill, each visitor acts on the light bouncing of the leaf against a cymbal set into vibration. The slightest movement then changes the rhythm and colour of the sounds produced.
Amplified and broadcast through various objects arranged around the participant, , these sounds compose an ever-evolving soundscape.
The resulting sound is never fully controlled by the visitor: it is shaped by the encounter of their gesture, the properties of the leaf and the cymbal, and a program-score that drives the resonance of this sound through the various objects of the installation.