Choir is a network of single-card computers mounted on metal rods, each equipped with a loudspeaker. Using the same database of pre-recorded human voices, they work together to create a sound performance guided by their mutual interactions.
Choir was exhibited during the Chassepierre festival, from the 16th to the 17th of August. This version was conceived as a 25 minutes sound performance by 12 modules communicating together in a mesh network. The exhibition location was a cave in the middle of the small village, isolated from the rest of the festival. The starting point of Choir, Latos : talking network was thought as a way to make the negociations between machines in a network audible. Here the negociations are still there but are less explicit; the focus has shifted to the potentialities of the sound performance in itself. The modules are singing together with a database of recordings I have made last October, during a residency in the village where I had the oportunity to record voices from visitors and Chassepierre residents.
Choir, Chassepierre, 2025. Picture by Sophie Martin
Choir, Chassepierre, 2025
Choir, Chassepierre, 2025. Picture by Paulette Martin Maes
Residency at Chassepierre for the development of Choir, from October 11 to 17, 2024. With the support of the CACLB and the Festival de Chassepierre. As part of this project, I developed a software to record the voices of local residents and visitors to the residency. These recording sessions took place at the end of each day during the residency and during the opening of the workshop. Choir will be presented at the next Chassepierre festival, in August 2025.