(In)discrets is an ongoing interdisciplinary research-creation project situated between sound ecology, music, and visual arts. It explores the living and sonic dimensions of soil — a complex, dynamic ecosystem that sustains and connects all forms of life.
In collaboration with Noémie Favennec-Brun, Louise Hochet, Ensemble KlangLab, Tania Cortés Becerra and Eugénie Crétinon
In just three generations, the professions of farmer, rancher and forester have continued to change.
In just three generations, we have collectively lost our relationship with the earth, farming and horticulture, whereas our ancestors devoted much of their time to them.
In modern agriculture, our soils are impoverished and damaged by the combination of mechanisation and chemicals: overworked areas suffer and gradually turn into deserts. Formerly fertile soils become clouds of dust.
This project aims to open up a dialogue between generations in order to question our heritage together. To create a space to re-establish relationships between generations and their actions, to invest the sensitive, the intimate, the oral tradition.
It aims to create links between music, textiles, knowledge of the living and the passage of time, the power of gestures and their transmission across generations.
(In)discrets is an ongoing interdisciplinary research-creation project situated between sound ecology, music, and visual arts. It explores the living and sonic dimensions of soil — a complex, dynamic ecosystem that sustains and connects all forms of life.
Through listening, artistic experimentation, and collective inquiry, the project examines how sound can help us perceive and understand the soil as a living material. Recordings of underground activity, textile and ceramic works, and collaborative artistic practices make perceptible the often-unheard vitality of the ground beneath us.
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(In)discrets brings together composers, sound artists, and visual artists in an ongoing dialogue between artistic creation, acoustic ecology, and environmental awareness. It develops through installations, performances, workshops, and educational programmes, fostering shared reflection on our relationship with the earth and its transformations.
With an intergenerational and collaborative approach, the project connects listening, gesture, and material practice — weaving relationships across generations and disciplines. (In)discrets invites us to attend to what usually remains unnoticed, and to rediscover the soil as a common, living foundation for human and non-human worlds.
Past events:
February-April 2024 - Eco-educational workshops
9 May 2024 - Premiere, Basel KHaus
24 May 2024 - Concert as part of the colloquium Arts, écologies, radicalités, Mains d'oeuvres, Paris (version for solo cello and electronics).
29 April 2025 - Eve, scène universitaire, Le Mans - Concert with subsequent scientific mediation
04 Oktober 2025 - Eco-educational workshops Le Mans
Supported by the canton of Zug, the Maison de la Musique contemporaine and Impuls Neue Musik
Photos © Santiago Villar, Noémie Favennec-Brun, Eugénie Crétinon
