Listen to an exclusive Live Session by Soundwalk collaborator Marc Huri, who will be on stage for the realization of LE SON DU NOUS, with Philippe Starck at MAC Créteil’s International Exit Festival, March 19th and 20th. Huri is a Swiss artist who creates alternative electronic music and ambient sound, releasing music under the name, Hursaki.
This session was produced by Huri following an interview on France Culture’s “Le Rendez-vous,” of Philippe Starck and Alex Kummerman, in which the two discussed the unique concepts of the project.
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Huri’s live session is a mix of natural and manufactured sound. Birdsong, electrical noises, and human voices are all present on the track, conceived for a performance directed toward the discovery of the sound of Us.
Huri says that the inspirations for his live session were the sounds that we find disagreeable. He takes pleasure in turning these sounds into something beautiful. “On this track there are subway noises, the grinding of trains on rails, [he manipulates and integrates] them in a way to create music.”
Huri describes his creative process, saying that when he hears sound, images form inside his head and a little film takes shape. The sounds tell their own story. On this particular track, Huri sees himself as part of a story: of a voyage, on an eastern European train. At first, one feels cradled by the noise, and then, startled and more awake. Huri calls it “exciting, unexpected, and also frightening.”
Philippe Starck talks about each person having a unique, individual sound: he says that his is an Indian flute with three holes, that produces a melody which can transport one into a trance-like state. Soundwalk’s Stephan Crasneanscki says that he prefers the sound of silence. When asked about his own sound, Huri says that finding such a sound is a lifelong trial. For LE SON DU NOUS, he is focused on projecting the sound of who he is today: Huri says that this sound comes to him instinctively. Currently, Huri pursues an interest in exploring the relationship between sound and image: he takes his camera, sound equipment and guitar, and explores the different sounds they create together. For “Le Rendez-Vous,” Huri produced a very particular sound, punctuating the piece using the two repeated passages. He says that, “it is after me that the sound of who I am today emerges. It is something of a hybrid; of the media who searches for it, finds it, and transforms it.”
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Photo Credit: Marc Huri
