six-channel sound installation 
for the exhibition IKONA (Ikonenmuseum Frankfurt)
in collaboration with soprano Maren Schwier
18 October 2024 – 09 February 2025
Location: Museum für Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt

The sound installation 𝘝𝘐𝘙𝘐𝘋𝘌𝘚𝘊𝘌𝘕𝘊𝘌 - developed especially for IKONA by the composer Raphael Languillat and the soprano Maren Schwier - creates a sonic bridge between the female saints depicted in the exhibition and the Saint Hildegard of Bingen, who formulated the principle of viriditas (greening power).

𝘝𝘐𝘙𝘐𝘋𝘌𝘚𝘊𝘌𝘕𝘊𝘌 (binaural mix)

𝘖 𝘙𝘜𝘉𝘖𝘙 𝘚𝘈𝘕𝘎𝘜𝘐𝘕𝘐𝘚
after Hildegard von Bingen
in collaboration with Maren Schwier

One of the tracks of the project VIRIDESCENCE with soprano Maren Schwier — which reinterprets chants of Hildegard von Bingen for amplified voice and modular synthesizer.

𝘖 𝘙𝘜𝘉𝘖𝘙 𝘚𝘈𝘕𝘎𝘜𝘐𝘕𝘐𝘚

Transmission · 1 is

· a fragment from a live, unprocessed and 'potentially hazardous improvisation' created through the manipulation of a complex feedback patch on a KORG MS-20 mini and some effect pedals.

· inspired by my fascination with the raw, aggressive sounds captured by space telescopes during different NASA missions.

Transmission · 1

Transmission · 2 is

· a fragment from a live, unprocessed and 'potentially hazardous improvisation' created through the manipulation of a complex feedback patch on a KORG MS-20 mini and some effect pedals.

· inspired by my fascination with the raw, aggressive sounds captured by space telescopes during different NASA missions.

Transmission · 2

love songs (after Daft Punk) - 2024/25

(1) digital love (remix)
(2) interlude (bell)
(3) premonition (dream)
(4) hunted desires
(5) crushing heart
(6) something about us (redux)

Instrumentation — amplified flute (C & Bass), oboe / synthesizer, clarinet (Bb & Bass), accordion, cello + electronics & video

Year — 2024/25
Duration — 35'

Program notes — love songs (after Daft Punk) is a full-length audiovisual experience for amplified ensemble, electronics and video. In a genre-crossing narrative between ambient and experimental music, granular remixes of Daft Punk’s album Discovery merge with fragments from William Shakespeare’s poem Venus & Adonis — a statement on the present state of love and a reflection on death – suspended between post-romantic longing and pop-cultural dissolution.

Première — 31.01.25 Naxos Hallenkonzerte | Frankfurt (DE) — Ensemble S201

1 - digital love (remix)

2 - interlude (bell)

3 - premonition (dream)

4 - hunted desires

5 - crushing heart

6 - something about us (redux)

raphaël languillat
• composer / electronic artist
• curator Naxos Hallenkonzerte
• based in Offenbach/Main (DE)
• part of Studio Wäscherei

This track is not available anymore.

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