Myriam Bessette & Robin Dupuis : Conciliabule
The audio installation Conciliabule (2006-2009), a collective work in progress, explores the nature of the acoustic object and the transmission of complex voice messages through an electric signal. Starting with voice samples, the artists have filtered out all references except for very low inaudible frequencies. The almost silent audio installation creates its own materiality in the form of vibrations that become visible on the speakers. It isn’t the captured voice whispering in the visitor’s ear, but the quivering of the device that animates the piece. The multi-track work invites visitors to perambulate through an auditory visual architecture and to enter into a conciliabule with the materiality of sound.
Artist Biography
Myriam Bessette and Robin Dupuis each have their own approach to the use of sound as material. Bessette collects samples of her own voice, which she sources in all her sounds and incorporates into installations or with digitalize images that she mounts, colours, animates, and modifies. Dupuis uses synthesized sounds to generate immersive installations or abstract animations. Sound material is the genesis of both artists’ projects.