Sound performance by Claire Frachebourg
La Centrale, Saturday, November 8, 2025, 7 p.m.
Serpentinite has a sound all its own, specific to its metamorphic nature, which has touched the seabed before reaching for the stars on mountain tops. Its song connects us to the earth's deepest time, awakens dragons and, through its natural magnetism, summons meteorites from the sky.
A multi-disciplinary artist who graduated in 2012 from TIP (performance school in Freiburg im Breisgau), then in 2021 from EDHEA (École de design et Haute école d'art du Valais), iel connects with faults, holes and spaces that generate new resonances, relationships and ways of being in the world through situated listening. Her research focuses on the imaginary generated by changes in physical and temporal scale. Claire Frachebourg explores the hidden potential of encounters and the imperceptible voices that surround us. HIRs is a project based on her explorations in the mountains and her sensory relationship with stone.