"BURN THE WATER" is a sound drift created from the recordings and cartographic work of Elise Le Floch.

In September 2023, she traveled up the Pontet stream in Gers (France), capturing the sounds of the watercourse, animals, and environments – dogs, frogs, birds, the door of a chapel...

I structured my piece using her map detailing the water density, current speed, and surrounding vegetation as a score. I added memory sounds from my sound library (fragments of existence, studio moments, isolated archives), making images of the past appear and disappear during the wander.

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BURN THE WATER

electroacoustic composer + revox performer

Théo Fernandez is a French composer and performer. Originally from Toulouse, now based in Paris. He moves through the territories of electroacoustic music. From this practice, he retains a plastic approach to the sound object: the careful, alert collection of sounds that ripen slowly; and find their consequences in the dramaturgy that link them to others. He works mainly with reel-to-reel tape recorders. Tape does not restore but re-deform again. An oxidisable nature that revisits what has been lost with digital clarity; in loops, where each passage carries a certain nostalgia for the future; where music belongs to a moment that may never have truly existed.

Théo Fernandez

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