BEYOND THE CODA : Félix Blume, Sound Artist (En)
Beyond The Coda
https://beyond-the-coda.blogspot.com/2019/03/felix-blume.html?fbclid=IwAR1XK3WlUkxt52CICU3CAMM0GToN9Ccheb1reXELiHln3i6E7DCwGo-kAL8
“Music is the cup that holds the wine of silence. Sound is that cup, but empty. Noise is that cup, but broken.”
Robert Fripp
“Le rôle de l’artiste créateur est de créer des lois, non pas de suivre celles qui sont déjà faites”
Ferruccio Busoni
“Go, go, go! … Go! go! …”
John Lee Hooker
Felix Blume is a french sound artist and sound engineer for lots of movies and art pieces; he works and lives between Mexico and France.
His work is focused on listening, it invites us to live sonic experiences that enable a different perception of the surrounding. He uses sound as a basic material in sound pieces, videos, actions and installations. His process is often collaborative, working with communities, using public space as the context within which he explores and presents his works.
He creates some amazing installations, using radio, human dialogues both with inhabited natural and urban contexts, in what voices can tell beyond words. My best are : “Sapo”, “Informal chorus” with Daniel Godinez Nivon, “Sound cane” …
“…Me gusta que llegas a la exposición y es como un pequeño oasis, hay belleza en el sonido, hay una experiencia estética. Es una exposición para estar y perderse adentro de ella. Ver el elemento plástico, ver las cosas que se conectan. Hay una voluntad de hacer y articular algo y esto implica un riesgo. Conecté, contacté porque encontré potencial para hablar de lo que me interesaba. Un nuevo materialismo.
Por otro lado, el arte sonoro tiene una tradición muy conservadora de eliminar todos los demás sonidos, en una especie de reivindicación del sonido. A mí lo que me interesa es la problematicidad que hay entre visión y audición y la alusión a otros sentidos desde otros sentidos…”
Felix Blume – May 2018 – itw by Jessica Díaz
In 2018, he published a CD around funeral brass band: “Death in Haïti: funeral brass sounds & sounds of Port au Prince”
One of his last work is a site-specific sound installation entitled “Rumors from the sea”, composed of hundred of bamboos and flutes on the coast of Krabi, a work commissioned by the Thailand Biennale.
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Publié par Palix
Beyond The Coda
https://beyond-the-coda.blogspot.com/2019/03/felix-blume.html?fbclid=IwAR1XK3WlUkxt52CICU3CAMM0GToN9Ccheb1reXELiHln3i6E7DCwGo-kAL8