MONTBELIARD up April 2
The Allan, nationally Montbéliard
Sponeck Hall (Downtown, near City Hall)
Admission free Tuesday to Friday 10am-12pm
/ 14h-18h and Saturday morning
http://www.lallan.fr/
freephone 0805710700
A little soft music is suggested on the floor of the Hotel de Sponeck. An bells tinkling, overtaking its worst looks like the tolling of the clock of my grandmother. The machines are there in semi-darkness. Neon lights, desk lamps or bedside light accentuates their shape controlled chaotic and rickety, marking a close, an intimacy with materials recovery used for design.
"Press 5 seconds switch" it was written. And then everything comes alive. A stick stirs in snail shells, two pieces of wood banging an old bicycle bell, a nail hitting a screw bolt and the experimental machines s'actionnent precarious mechanisms for a concert of rhythms strange and incongruous destabilizing. A twig
trimbalée around a turntable rattling, then picking up speed, just randomly typing the stretched skin of a drum, the thin strings of a harp, a metal spring ... In another room, a new ride gets under way in a dance shadows and lights projected on the wall, a series of pieces of wood cons get damaged earthen pots causing a gamelan music curiously reminiscent of Indonesia. Further, three large rods giggle, a small xylophone agitated, mechanisms and machinery LEAD blowers rustling winded in flutes or tubas ...
Since 1995, Fred Junter designs these sound sculptures based on the notion of randomness. "Everything is done with a technology not advanced enough so rough and uncertain. I left things to chance." Thus he speaks of his works. In the exhibition, there is movement, and yet noise a certain calm. Serenity reigns in this temple, kingdom of useless machines and automated orchestras terribly poetic.
Frédérique Foulla
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