Test_Lab: Lithogonie

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Test_Lab: Lithogonie

Test_Lab: Lithogonie focuses on the audiovisual project mesocosm by Joel Lavoie, Philippe Vandal and Emma Forgues. The project explores the realtime translation of microscopic geological and hydrological phenomena into immersive digital landscapes.

The research of Lavoie, Vandal and Forgues is based on field recordings gathered in carefully chosen locations using hydrophones, geophones, and contact microphones. These recordings capture the subtle vibrations of water, rock, and mineral strata, and are transformed into generative visuals in the live audiovisual performance Lithogonie. Within the real-time environment of the performance, sound does not function as accompaniment: it acts as a force that erodes, fragments, deforms, and brings visual matter into being.

In continuity with their earlier works Terra Flecta and Edge Effect, Lithogonie proposes an expanded listening to the territory and a sensitive reading of ecological transformation, that makes perceptible dynamics that are normally too slow, too small, or too ‘buried’ to be directly observed. The project will lead to an immersive performative prototype, as well as a sound library, audiovisual transduction tools, and a reusable methodology for future works.

During the TestLab the collective presents a work-in-progress version of an audiovisual performance that they are developing as part of their residency at V2. They will also share their ideas on multisensorial perception in exhibition, Emma Forgues from a clinical perspective, Philippe Vandal with specific attention to chemistry and laboratory aesthetics, and Joel Lavoie with a focus on environmental sound and its relation to the experience of time and space.