“Natura Morta”
Lionel Marchetti
1 July → 17 July 2010
Presented as part of the 2010 Liquid Architecture Festival.
Why pile fruit on a table with a single loudspeaker hidden underneath and leave it to rot for two weeks? Natura Morta gives us a strange object; a visual sound installation of dead things, a sculpture combining nature and electric technology, a rotting sculpture, its beauty a result of natural chemistry. The colours fade, slowly, with time — will the sound rot too? Does the sound follow the colours? The light will give the sculpture a feeling of a moving shadow. Natura Morta is an eye that speaks from the burning of the fire of time.
Lionel Marchetti (France, 1967) is a composer of Musique Concrète. Initially self-taught, Lionel discovered the catalogue of Musique Concrète with Xavier Garcia. He composed in the CFMI of Lyon 2 University between 1989 and 2002, where he still organises workshops focused on the loudspeaker, recorded sound and Musique Concrète, both on practical and theoretical levels. He has built his own recording studio, and has also composed in the Groupe de Recherches Musicales in Paris since 1993. Marchetti performs improvisation using microphones and loudspeakers, with dancer and sound artist Yoko Higashi, as a duo with Jérôme Noetinger, and with the collective Le Cube (with Christophe Auger, Étienne Caire, Christophe Cardoen, Xavier Quérel, Jérôme Noetinger, Gaëlle Rouard) a group that performs live music while films are shown and worked on interactively. Lionel also writes poetry, and develops theoretical thoughts on Musique Concrète and the art of the loudspeaker.
Liquid Architecture 2010
The annual Liquid Architecture festival presents sound. Sound as the starting point for the active practice of listening. This is not to deny the conceptual or the abstract, the metaphorical or the representational, the expressionistic or the meaningful. But rather this is to restore the emphasis on the primary act of listening.
Liquid Architecture is in effect, then, a listening festival and the artists presented are selected as much for their ability to listen with sensitive ears as for the sound they produce. You are invited to engage your sensitive ears and listen.
In 2010 Liquid Architecture occurs in seven cities throughout Australia and is supported by the Victorian Government through the Community Support Fund and the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
Liquid Architecture acknowledges the support of the French Embassy in Australia.
For more information go to www.liquidarchitecture.org.au
Lionel Marchetti (France, 1967) is a composer of Musique Concrète. Initially self-taught, Lionel discovered the catalogue of Musique Concrète with Xavier Garcia. He composed in the CFMI of Lyon 2 University between 1989 and 2002, where he still organises workshops focused on the loudspeaker, recorded sound and Musique Concrète, both on practical and theoretical levels. He has built his own recording studio, and has also composed in the Groupe de Recherches Musicales in Paris since 1993. Marchetti performs improvisation using microphones and loudspeakers, with dancer and sound artist Yoko Higashi, as a duo with Jérôme Noetinger, and with the collective Le Cube (with Christophe Auger, Étienne Caire, Christophe Cardoen, Xavier Quérel, Jérôme Noetinger, Gaëlle Rouard) a group that performs live music while films are shown and worked on interactively. Lionel also writes poetry, and develops theoretical thoughts on Musique Concrète and the art of the loudspeaker.