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CLAUDE P​É​RIARD - Terrains Vagues

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TERRAINS VAGUES, electroacoustic piece.

Claude Périard (Montreal)

The word utopia comes from greek word topos, that means place, space. Therefore, an utopia is an imaginary space. The notion of space is central in the medium of sound. It's maybe explained by the psychoacoustic rôle of the faculty hearing, which is to access informations about the surrounding space. John Cage already brought this idea within his Imaginary Landscapes, at the very early beginning of the electroacoustic medium. Terrains Vagues (in french means wastelands and blurred lands) tries so to create three utopias that can be seen as soundscapes : 1- Plage blanche (white beach), 2- Chambre noire (Black room), 3- Zone grise (Grey zone). White + black = grey. It is based on the dialectic model. The first and the third spaces are exterior lands, and the second propose an interiority (EXT-INT-EXT). The piece wants to be a travel through those three mental and imaginary spaces and put in opposition water and liquid sounds with electronic sounds, as a metaphor of the ''liquid society'', which is a sociological concept explaining our decades. On the other hand, water is the symbol of life origin, so the contrast between those water sounds and the electronics ones recall the hypertechnological era of humanity. The glaciers melting and the waterfloods to come remember us of the destruction power of water upon electronic devices. Paradoxically, our electricity in Quebec is made from water streams (hydro-electricity).

An eclectic and eternally curious being, Claude Periard belonged at first to the musical world. Through studies in classical piano, her interest for sound as a medium was awoken. She has released a dozen music albums, has published essays, short stories and poems in independent publications, and exposed paintings and sculptures. In 2013, she began a Bachelor’s degree in electroaccoustic studies at University of Montreal and orients increasingly her practice towards new medias such as video, sound art and multimedia installation. Multiform cyborg creature, always eager for more exploration, it is the desire to EXPRESS that fuels her politically, philosophically, and feminist charged work.

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Sound art : claudeperiard.bandcamp.com Music : claudelanthrope.bandcamp.com Art blog : claudeperiard.wordpress.com

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from FEMALE IDENTIFIED PRODUCERS, released February 12, 2018

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