Pierre-Laurent Cassière

Dislocation

Sound installation
Variable dimensions, 2017-2025
(Parametric loudspeakers, computer program)

Ultrasonic pulses are projected against the architecture at random intervals. The surfaces of walls, floors and ceilings are used as acoustic reflectors, disseminating these micro-sounds throughout the space. Blending principles of physics and psychoacoustics, these sound manifestations create perceptual ambiguities as to the nature and position of their sources, whose profusion is above all illusory.

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Answers (tectophony)

In situ sound performance
Variable duration, 2005-2025

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A powerful low-frequency generator, previously tuned to the architecture, is activated live during an improvisation. The phenomenon of sympathetic resonance allows certain elements of the building (structures, windows, pipes...) to vibrate until they produce their own sounds and enrich the bass with new harmonics. The former Chandoline hydroelectric plant is transformed into an immense acoustic instrument, inviting us, for the duration of a performance, to listen to it vibrate.

Warning: the performance may produce moments of high sound pressure. Hearing protection for youngsters is recommended.

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Pierre-Laurent Cassière

Born in 1982
Based in Marseille

Influenced by fields ranging from media archaeology and architecture to the physical sciences, musicology and physiology, Pierre-Laurent Cassière's work focuses primarily on perceptual experiences linked to movement. Somewhere between kinetic sculpture, expanded cinema and sound installation, his works propose paradoxical contemplative situations that play with the limits of perception.

Born in 1982, he graduated from the Villa Arson, ENSA de Nice, in 2005, and was invited to join the Media Theory department of the KHM in Cologne, Germany, the following year. At the same time, he obtained an inter-university DEA in contemporary art in Belgium, between the universities of Liège and Brussels. His thesis focused on the use of sound effects in contemporary artistic practice. Since 2006, his work has been presented in institutions such as SMAK, Ghent (BE), Palais de Tokyo, Centre Pompidou and Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (FR), TENT, Rotterdam (NL), Palais Thurn & Taxis, Bregenz (AUT), Paco das Artes, São Paulo (BR), Kunstverein Stuttgart (DE), OCT Art & Design Gallery, Shanghai and Shenzen (CN) and LACE, Los Angeles (US).