Les Sirènes (FR/CH)
Residency period: July-September 2019
Les Sirènes laid down the theoretical foundations for what fuelled the creation of the artist collective in 2018, namely a social criticism of sound, by devoting time to the topic and carrying out research and analyses. On a practical level, Les Sirènes pursued their multidisciplinary reflection about auditory injunctions through the extended observation of a particular area, i.e. the city of Renens, which is both representative in the devices it uses and specific in how it implements them. More broadly, Les Sirènes built on this residence as a founding moment for its collective work, enabling the collective to take full advantage of the members’ very different backgrounds and to develop a shared practice at the crossroads of music, art, writing and research.
During this residence, Les Sirènes thus worked on the Transposition Politics project, based on the statistics of foreign populations living in Renens.
This project took two forms:
– The production of a sound installation in the city of Renens
– The development of a graphic score, a written booklet and a sound performance at Le Bourg in Lausanne
Les Sirènes is a collective of intervention on the social criticism of sound. It works to analyze and question the auditory myths, the forms of domination or resistance shaped by sound and how sound can produce or destroy the common good. Using both artistic and theoretical tools, it aims to create listening experiences that are distant and specific to a taken space. It brings together musician and performer Francisco Meirino, composer and improviser Jérôme Noetinger, artist and academic Matthieu Saladin, researcher and author Juliette Volcler.
Les Sirènes are Francisco Merino, Jérôme Nottinger, Matthieu Saladin & Juliette Volcler